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The North Korean Threat: Nuclear, Missiles and Cyber
Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Sung Kim, Special Representative for North Korea Policy
January 13, 2015
"Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Engel, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me today, along with my colleagues from Treasury and DHS, to testify about North Korea. I particularly appreciate your convening this hearing early as the new Congress begins its work. North Korea is one of the most difficult and complicated challenges the United States faces. As we respond to its destabilizing, provocative, and repressive policies and actions around the world, we appreciate the interest and attention you and the Committee have given to this issue..."
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Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges
Committee on Assessment of the Governance Structure of the NNSA National Security Laboratories; Laboratory Assessments Board; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Research Council
January 2015
Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding the transition of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) laboratories - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories - to multiagency, federally funded research and development centers with direct sustainment and sponsorship by multiple national security agencies. This report makes recommendations for the governance of NNSA laboratories to better align with the evolving national security landscape and the laboratories' increasing engagement with the other national security agencies, while simultaneously encouraging the best technical solutions to national problems from the entire range of national security establishments. According to this report, the Department of Energy should remain the sole sponsor of the NNSA laboratories as federally funded research and development centers. The NNSA laboratories will remain a critically important resource to meet U.S. national security needs for many decades to come. The recommendations of Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges will improve the governance of the laboratories and strengthen their strategic relationship with the non-DOE national security agencies.
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Albert B. Wolf, U.S. News and World Report
If you listened to many neoconservative pundits, Iran is on the march, making gains in Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus and now Sanaa.Hardliners in Iran are saying the exact same thing. Hawks in both countries have convinced themselves that Shiitte dominoes are falling in Iran's favor. Several states are nearing tipping points into ethnic strife. The mullahsare poised to extend the long arm of the Pasdaran to push fragile states into outright ethnic strife. Meanwhile, the longer the nuclear talks with Iran drag on, the regime gains more time to construct an arsenal of its own. The Houthi takeover of the presidentialpalace in Yemen may prove to be a short-term victory for Iran, but a long-term setback for the region. This poses potential problems for both the nuclear deal and the overall stability of the region.
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Nuclear Weapons in Russia's Amended Military Doctrine
Vladimir Dvorkin, Carnegie Moscow Center
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South Korea's Search for Nuclear Sovereignty
Toby Dalton and Alexandra Francis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
January 2015
This article argues that the narrow technical disagreements stalling the renegotiation of the U.S.-South Korea nuclear cooperation agreement mask a far larger and more complicated set of issues and interests that challenge both the future of bilateral nuclear cooperation and the nonproliferation regime.
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ROK-U.S. Civil Nuclear Nonproliferation
Collaboration in Third Countries
Fred F. McGoldrick, Robert J. Einhorn, Duyeon Kim, James L. Tyson
The Brookings Institution
January 2015
The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have enjoyed a lengthy and fruitful bilateral cooperative relationship in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and in promoting mutual nuclear nonproliferation objectives. The United States has long been a major exporter of nuclear materials, equipment, and technology. South Korea has recently entered the international nuclear market-for example, it has sold nuclear reactors to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-and is positioning itself to become a leading supplier of nuclear reactors, components, and services to other countries. The nuclear industries of both countries are already closely intertwined.
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Strengthening International Nuclear Security Cooperation: Options for Action
The Stanley Foundation
January 2015
From October 15 to 17, 2014, the Stanley Foundation, in collaboration with the team from the Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, convened a group of experts and policymakers from the United States and abroad to address these issues at its 55th annual Strategy for Peace Conference. The group discussed ways to overcome challenges to nuclear security cooperation faced by the United States, Russia, and China, and next steps to ensure that countries put in place effective and sustainable nuclear security measures with strong security cultures. The following recommendations, derived from the discussion, could be applied to nuclear security in the United States, Russia, China, or any facility with nuclear weapons or weapons-usable material.
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Russia Ends US Nuclear Security Alliance
Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe
January 19, 2015
The private diplomatic meetings took place over two days in mid-December in a hotel overlooking Moscow's Red Square.
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What's Ahead in 2015:
A Preview of Eventson the IAEA's Calendar
International Atomic Energy Agency
January 2015
Nuclear safety and security, education of young professionals, emergency preparedness, climate change, fresh water resource management, verification measures, and the peaceful applications of nuclear technology - are some of the many areas addressed by conferences, events and meetings involving the IAEA and its key partners over the next 12 months.
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Assad's Secret:
Evidence Points to Syrian Push for Nuclear Weapons
Erich Follath, Spiegel Online
January 9, 2015
For years, it was thought that Israel had destroyed Syria's nuclear weapons capability with its 2007 raid on the Kibar complex. Not so. New intelligence suggests that Bashar al-Assad is still trying to built the bomb. And he may be getting help from North Korea and Iran.
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How Much Monitoring of Iranian Nuclear Facilities is Enough?
Ariane Tabatabai, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 14, 2015
As nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers head into a new phase, one of the key bones of contention will involve monitoring and safeguards-those measures designed to ensure that Tehran is complying with international obligations, declaring all of its nuclear activities, and refraining from weaponization. The foreign powers argue for more transparency, while Iran retorts that its nuclear program is already subject to the most intrusive inspection regime in the world and thus it should not have accept more.
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