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Nuclear Dangers: Now What?
Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
November 10, 2014
What can the Obama Administration hope to accomplish to reduce nuclear dangers during the last quarter-pole of this presidency, especially after being drubbed in the mid-term elections? Quite a lot, actually.
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Foundation of US Nuclear System Showing Cracks
Robert Burns, Associated Press
November 8, 2014
The foundation of America's nuclear arsenal is fractured, and the government has no clear plan to repair it. The cracks appear not just in the military forces equipped with nuclear weapons but also in the civilian bureaucracy that controls them, justifies their cost, plans their future and is responsible for explaining a defense policy that says nuclear weapons are at once essential and excessive.
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Aging Nuclear Arsenal Grows Ever More Costly
Ralph Vartabedian and W.J. Hennigan
Pipes, tanks and other equipment rust in the humid Southern air. Leaky roofs leave puddles on factory floors. Abandoned buildings are scattered across an 800-acre site contaminated with hundreds of tons of mercury.
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Nukes Getting Second-to-Last Cyber Check
Cory Bennett, The Hill
November 6, 2014
The government is putting $12 million toward completing its cybersecurity vetting of nuclear power plants.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has awarded a contract to test nuclear plants' compliance with the final phase of a cybersecurity program launched in 2009.
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Monitoring Missile Proliferation with Open Source Tools
Podcast
November 12, 2014
How does Jeffrey find time to podcast? He has super talented staff to do the real work! Jeffrey talks with Melissa Hanham and Catherine Dill, research associates at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, about their latest work modeling North Korean missiles and eyeballing Chinese military bases.
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Forging Partnerships with Academia in Nuclear Detection and Forensics
Huban Gowadia, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Last week, I had the honor of speaking to faculty and students at the University of Tennessee's Institute for Nuclear Security, a key university partner of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO). At DNDO, we are focused on preventing nuclear terrorism, and academia is critical in helping to build enhanced nuclear detection and forensics capabilities and developing the next generation of nuclear scientists that will help us make nuclear terrorism a prohibitively difficult undertaking.
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Five Nuclear Engineers, One of Them Iranian, Killed in Syria
Rasha Elass and Fredrik Dahl, Reuters
November 10, 2014
Gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, four of them Syrian and one Iranian, on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, a monitoring group said on Monday.
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Tensions Muddle U.S.- Iran Nuclear Dialogue
Jay Solomon, The Wall Street Journal
November 2014
Iran sent signals that it was open to overtures in a recent letter from U.S. President Barack Obama as talks kicked off here on Sunday, but tensions in both nations' capitals are complicating attempts to rein in Tehran's nuclear program as a diplomatic deadline approaches.
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Why Israel Opposes a Final Nuclear Deal with Iran
and What to Do About It
Robert E. Hunter, LobeLog
November 5, 2014
November 24 is the deadline for six world powers and Iran to reach a final deal over its nuclear program. If there is no deal, then the talks are likely to be extended, not abandoned. But as I learned from more than three decades' work on Middle East issues, in and out of the US government, success also depends on Israel no longer believing that it needs a regional enemy shared in common with the United States to ensure Washington's commitment to its security.
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Is Russia Afraid of Chinese and Indian Missiles?
Petr Topychkanov, Carnegie Moscow Center
November 3, 2014
Russia's official pronouncements have been increasingly critical of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and other Russian-American agreements that are alleged to run counter to the Russian national interests. Even the Russian president made numerous statements about the changed international climate that may put compliance with the INF into question for the sake of national security.
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Who Cares About an Iranian Nuclear Breakout?
Beware of the Atomic "Sneak-Out"
James M. Acton, The National Interest
November 4, 2014
It's time for America to rethink its strategy for preventing Iran from getting the Bomb. Negotiations over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program are foundering on the question of how much enrichment capacity it can be permitted. So far, Tehran has refused to dismantle any of the 19,000 or so centrifuges it has installed. Its negotiating partners, led by the United States, insist that Iran can only be allowed to operate a few thousand at most. There is no clear path to breaking the deadlock.
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