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Congress Pushes Nuclear Expansion
Despite Accidents at Weapons Lab
Caty Enders, The Guardian
September 29, 2014
This month, the Department of Energy released its initial findings into one of the worst American nuclear accidents since the end of the cold war. On February 14, a 52-gallon drum containing radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production exploded at a storage facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico, exposing 22 workers to radioactivity and leading to the closure of the facility. In its preliminary briefing, the DOE recommended a 7,000-point checklist that must be met in order to reopen the facility and indicated that congressional support for the plan was strong, despite a price tag that would likely run into the billions of dollars.
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US Steps Up Sanctions on Iran's Nuke Program
Rebecca Shabad, The HIll
August 29, 2014
The Obama administration on Friday sanctioned more than two-dozen people and companies for aiding Iran's illegal nuclear activities and violating existing sanctions against Tehran.
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Remarks at the Friends of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Ministerial
John Kerry, Secretary of State
Thank you, Fumio. Thank you very, very much. Mr. Secretary-General, let me begin by thanking you for an extraordinary week here at the United Nations. I think this has been an UNGA that's been as seized with the issues of the day as forcefully and as directly as at any time, and we're very appreciative for all of the UN's efforts to make that happen. And I can tell you that everybody here with respect to the CTBT will say "Ban forever," I promise you. (Laughter.)
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Fight Club: Israel Nuke Edition
Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Policy
September 26, 2014
Pssst. Come closer. I'm going to let you in on one of the U.S. government's most closely guarded secrets.
Make sure you are sitting down, because what I am going to tell you will blow your mind. This is so close-hold that if a U.S. government official were to so much breathe a word about this, she should would lose her job. Ready?
Israel has the bomb.
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DOE Official Seeks Probe of Dissident Analyst's
Dismissal by Nuclear Weapons Laboratory
Douglas Birch, The Center for Public Integrity
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Full Frontal? Verifying a Nuclear Deal with Iran: Podcast
Aaron Stein, Arms Control Wonk
September 17, 2014
Aaron took a long weekend in Istanbul, but Jeffrey and Karl were hard at work!
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The Passing of the Nuclear Torch:
The Next Generation of WMD Scientists
September 22, 2014
You probably missed the obituary. But on July 7, when North Korean media announced the death of the 88-year-old senior North Korean official Jon Pyong Ho, it highlighted an important but largely ignored development in Pyongyang's effort to build weapons of mass destruction (WMD). While most observers focus on Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests, they ignore the shift happening in North Korea's WMD community: a newer generation is replacing the North Korean scientists who played a key role in developing Pyongyang's WMDs. This new generation will play a central role in determining whether North Korea will become a (small) nuclear power.
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How the Iranian Media Distort that Country's Nuclear Lens
Ariane Tabatabai, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 16, 2014
Few topics preoccupy Iranians more than the ongoing nuclear talks between their country and the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany). The nuclear issue is on every single Iranian's radar. This is not because they really care about the number of centrifuges spinning at Natanz, their country's controversial enrichment plant. But the nuclear dossier has impacted every aspect of their lives. It has dictated Iran's approach to foreign policy and governed domestic politics for over a decade. Yet most Iranians know very little about the nature of the nuclear program or its costs, benefits, and challenges.
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Necessary Adjustments to the US Nuclear Force Structure
Arms Control Association Letter to Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control, National Security Council
May 5, 2014
Dear Dr. Sherwood-Randall:
We write to express our concern that current plans for maintaining and upgrading the U.S.
nuclear arsenal over the next decade and beyond exceed reasonable deterrence requirements as
set out by the President in June 2013 and will deplete resources from higher priorities.
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Four Decades of Pre-Negotiations: Enough
Wael Al Assad, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 18, 2014
In Round One, my colleagues Li Bin and Sinan Ulgen advanced highly contrasting visions of nuclear disarmament. Ulgen argued that complete disarmament is an impractical goal and that nuclear deterrence has proven itself extremely useful for security. Deterrence, Ulgen argued, has prevented large-scale wars and conventional arms races for decades. Li, meanwhile, argued that reducing nuclear stockpiles to a level consistent with minimum deterrence would represent welcome progress toward "zero"-as long as such an approach were only an intermediate step toward complete disarmament.
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