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July 6-16, 2014
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Q&A: Head of UK Nuclear Review Says Politics
Did Not Affect Outcome
Elaine M. Grossman, Global Security Newswire
January 31, 2014
Danny Alexander -- the U.K. Cabinet member who led his government's review last year on alternative plans for modernizing nuclear weapons -- says politics played no role in the study's findings.
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Senator Threatens to Sue Nuclear Agency Over
Withheld Documents
Douglas P. Guarino, Global Security Newswire
January 30, 2014
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is threatening to sue the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for withholding information related to a now-defunct nuclear power plant that lawmakers and watchdog groups feared was a security risk.
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Significant Developments at North Korea's Sohae Test Facility
38 North
January 29, 2014
Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that North Korea may be preparing the Sohae Satellite Launching Station ("Tongchang-ri") for a more robust rocket test program in the future involving larger space launch vehicles and road-mobile ballistic missiles able to attack targets in Northeast Asia and the United States.
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Key Findings on Nuclear Force Troubles
Associated Press
January 27, 2014
The Associated Press has uncovered a series of security lapses and other troubles in the nation's nuclear forces. The issue came to a head this week when Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel summoned top military leaders and ordered a review of the problems.
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Report: Iran's Centrifuge Research and Development Program
David Albright and Paulina Izewicz, Institute for Science and International Security
January 27, 2014
The interim steps under the Joint Plan of Action are not expected to seriously affect Iran's centrifuge research and development program. These steps may delay the final development of new centrifuges that have not yet used uranium hexafluoride at the Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant. However, Iran can continue development of several existing types of advanced centrifuges there. More significant limitations on Iran's centrifuge R&D combined with greater transparency of this program should be included in the final step of a comprehensive solution, given that Iran's development of more advanced centrifuges would greatly ease its ability to conduct a secret breakout to nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear vs. Renewables: Divided They Fall
Dawn Stover, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 23, 2014
eople who agree that climate change is a dire problem often disagree about how to solve it. In recent months, once-private disagreements have ballooned into a public spat between pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear climate activists. Depending on whom you ask, nuclear power is either "essential" or "ill-suited" to efforts aimed at staving off climate disaster.
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U.N. Intel Chief Confirms North Korean Reactor Relaunch
Diane Barnes, Global Security Newswire
January 21, 2014
North Korea appears to have restarted a Soviet-era plutonium production reactor, the top U.S. intelligence official told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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