Arms Control Today back issues from May 2007:
Editor's NOTE
May 01, 2007; ... Amid rising concerns over global warming and energy security, interest in nuclear power has grown. Promoters of a "nuclear renaissance" argue that, by constructing more nuclear power plants, there will be less carbon in the atmosphere and less dependence on energy from volatile regions. But ...
Notable Quotable
May 01, 2007; ... "I think a critical question here, -with respect to [the Reliable Replacement Warhead program], is the issue of testing. Is it a specific objective of the program to be able to eliminate the need for testing in the future? Yes or no?" -Senator Jack Reed (D-R.L), April 18 at the hearing ...
U.S.-Indian Nuclear Deal: Round II
May 01, 2007; ... The nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) faces enough difficulties without the additional burden of preferential treatment for NPT holdout states. Nevertheless, the George W. Bush administration won congressional approval last December for an ill-conceived nuclear trade bill that would blow a ...
Fifteen Years Ago in ACT
May 01, 2007; ... Two Decades Later: The ABM Treaty in a Changed World The real way to reduce the nuclear threat is not to seed space with hundreds of weapons, or to ring our nation with ...
BY THE NUMBERS
May 01, 2007; ... Nuclear Power 435 Number of nuclear power reactors worldwide 368 Gigawatts of electricity supplied by nuclear power 10,000 Metric tons of spent fuel discharged from power reactors each year 75 Metric tons of plutonium in spent fuel ...
Treaty Update
May 01, 2007; ... Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Uzbekistan April 2 ratified a treaty to create a Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. The treaty was signed in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, a former Soviet nuclear test site, by the region's states in September 2006 and is the seventh treaty of its ...
Comings and Goings
May 01, 2007; ... Bill Ostendorff has been sworn in as the principal deputy administrator at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear security Administration (NNSA). Previously, Ostendorff served as counsel and staff director for the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee ....
On the Calendar
May 01, 2007; ... What's Ahead May 23 Deadline for Iran to Comply with UN security Resolution 1747 June 6-8 33rd Group of Eight Summit Meeting, Heiligendamm, Germany. June 6-15 Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer ...
Risks and Realities: The "New Nuclear Energy Revival"
May 01, 2007; ... The headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sits in the suburbs of Vienna, in the northeast corner of a country that has outlawed nuclear power plants since 1978. The irony of this situation masks deeper divisions in the nuclear energy debate, which recent assertions of a ...
Faux Renaissance: Global Warming, Radioactive Waste Disposal, and the Nuclear Future
May 01, 2007; ... Over the past 20 years, there has been little or no net growth in installed nuclear capacity in much of the world with the exception of Asia, where there has been some limited new nuclear construction. Many energy analysts now expect, however, a dramatic nuclear renaissance, provoked in part by ...
Equal Opportunity: Historical Challenges and Future Prospects of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
May 01, 2007; ... Since the beginning of the nuclear age, the international community has attempted to provide an institutional framework for peaceful nuclear activities, most notably power generation, in order to minimize the risk that acquired nuclear knowledge, technology, and assets would be misused to make ...
UN Members Slow on Iranian, NK Sanctions
May 01, 2007; ... Most countries have yet to inform the United Nations whether they have relevant legislation in place to implement newly adopted security Council-mandated sanctions on Iran and North Korea, according to recent reports from two UN panels charged with monitoring the restrictions. According ...
Iran Advances Nuclear Program, Defies UN
May 01, 2007; ... Iran has continued to make further progress on its nuclear programs in defiance of UN security Council demands. Evidence of this progress has emerged even as a May 23 deadline looms for Tehran to comply with a March security Council resolution. Iranian officials have continued to express ...
Sudan Accused of Violating UN Arms Embargo
May 01, 2007; ... AUN report has accused the Sudanese government of flying weapons into conflict-ridden Darfur in violation of UN security Council resolutions. The briefing, compiled by a panel of experts charged with assisting the security Council's Sudan Sanctions Committee in monitoring compliance with ...
North Korea Misses Disarmament Deadline
May 01, 2007; ... North Korea has failed to meet an April 14 deadline for implementing its portion of a February agreement to eliminate its nuclear weapons program. Progress continues to be delayed by an unresolved dispute involving North Korean funds in the Macau-based Banco Delta Asia. The United States ...
Indian Demands Slow U.S.-Indian Nuclear Deal
May 01, 2007; ... As the Bush administration's drive to revise U.S. and international nuclear trade rules for India has sputtered, U.S. officials have been expressing public exasperation with New Delhi's negotiating demands and perceived foot-dragging. At the Department of State's April 20 press briefing, ...
Tests, Arrests Draw Attention to Indian Missiles
May 01, 2007; ... Indian missile engineers are wasting little time celebrating their first successful intermediate-range ballistic missile test. With their confidence boosted, missile program managers have offered to develop an ICBM and announced upcoming missile defense tests. This push for ballistic ...
Progress on UN WMD Measure Mixed
May 01, 2007; ... Three years after the UN security Council required states to enact measures to prevent nonstate actors from acquiring or using unconventional arms, progress toward that goal is disparate and muddled. The limitations are perhaps best summed up by the fact that the United States is calling 2007 ...
U.S.-Russian Missile Center Faces Another Hurdle
May 01, 2007; ... Along-stalled U.S.-Russian project to share information on missile launches worldwide might never advance if the United States bases strategic anti-missile systems in Europe. Two Russian officials, who asked not to be identified, told Arms Control Today in April interviews that the fate ...
U.S., Russia Exploring Post-START Options
May 01, 2007; ... Moscow and Washington recently initiated talks on what measures might follow the upcoming expiration of START, their landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty. Russia favors negotiating another treaty cutting strategic nuclear forces, but the United States prefers a less formal arrangement without ...
Progress or Problems at CW Destruction Site?
May 01, 2007; ... U.S. officials say they are close to signing an agreement with the Russian government to complete the building of a major chemical weapons destruction facility that has been plagued by construction delays. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and ...
Nuclear Material Security Agreement Reached
May 01, 2007; ... The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a plan for Russia to sustain and maintain U.S.-installed security upgrades at Russian nuclear material sites, the National Nuclear security Administration (NNSA) said April 11. But a recent report from a congressional watchdog agency ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 2007; ... On page 30 of Arms Control Today's January/February 2007 issue, the size of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile that still needs to be destroyed was incorrectly cited as 28,000 metric tons ....
U.S. Poised to Cut Ballistic Missiles
May 01, 2007; ... As early as the end of May, the Air Force might start trimming the U.S. long-range nuclear ballistic missile force by 10 percent despite the objections of a few lawmakers. The service also is moving forward with plans to cut its nuclear-armed cruise missile fleet by approximately ...
BOOK REVIEW: Nuclear Minimalism
May 01, 2007; ... BOOK REVIEW: Nuclear Minimalism The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for security in the Nuclear Age By Jeffrey G. Lewis MIT Press, March 2007, 200 pp. China has always been something of a footnote for the U.S. expert community interested in nuclear weapons issues, and nuclear ...
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
May 01, 2007; ... The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor By William Langewiesche, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. May 2007, 179 pp. Pulling together articles that first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, William Langewiesche profiles three characters to illustrate how the great powers have lost their ...
Space as a Strategic Asset
May 01, 2007; ... Space as a Strategic Asset By Joan Johnson-Freese, Columbia University Press, March 2007, 304 pp. Joan Johnson-Freese calls for U.S. space policy to lead the world to greater levels of cooperation and away from the trappings of an arms race in space. Johnson-Freese, a scholar at the U.S ....
The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide
May 01, 2007; ... The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide By Rachel Stohl, Matt Schroeder, and Dan Smith, Onewortd Publications, February 2007,192pp. The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide is a primer designed to present the problem of small arms and light weapons proliferation in terms accessible to ...
Letter TO THE EDITOR
May 01, 2007; ... Broader Space Arms Control Is Needed As Geoffrey Forden ("After China's Test: Time for a Limited Ban on Anti-Satellite Weapons," Anns Contrat Tbday, Mardi 2007) indicates, space arms control has been stalled for many years, primarily by US. refusal to engage in negotiations or even less ...