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Strategic Latency and World Power:
How Technology is Changing Our Concepts of Security
Edited by Zachary Davis, Michael Nacht, and Ronald Lehman
January 2015
Technological evolution is accelerating at breakneck speed. Even futurists struggle to keep pace with the unprecedented rate of scientific discoveries and technological innovation. As a result, the political, military, and economic consequences of new technology no longer plod along familiar pathways of development but are instead blazing new byways leading to unknown destinations.
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Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2015 to 2024
Congressional Budget Office
January 2015
Nuclear weapons have been a cornerstone of U.S. national security since they were developed during World War II. During the Cold War, nuclear forces were central to U.S. defense policy, resulting in the buildup of a large arsenal. Since that time, they have figured less prominently than conventional forces, and the United States has not built any new nuclear weapons or delivery systems for many years.
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Look Beyond the Interim Deal
Ariel E. Levite, Arms Control Association
The negotiations on Iran's nuclear program have been extended again, removing any remaining doubts that, after 18 months of intense negotiations, the key to obtaining a comprehensive agreement still hinges on finding clever, new technical solutions to bridge the remaining disagreements between the parties.
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The United States and Russia Must Repair Their Partnership on Nuclear Security
Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, The Washington Post
January 23, 2015
For more than two decades, the United States and Russia partnered to secure and eliminate dangerous nuclear materials - not as a favor to one another but as a common-sense commitment, born of mutual self-interest, to prevent catastrophic nuclear terrorism. The world's two largest nuclear powers repeatedly set aside their political differences to cooperate on nuclear security to ensure that terrorists would not be able to detonate a nuclear bomb in New York, Moscow, Paris, Tel Aviv or elsewhere.
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Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
January 27, 2015
The most important post-Cold War initiative to reduce nuclear dangers undertaken by the United States has come to a quiet, unceremonious end. Cooperative threat reduction programs to secure loose nukes and reduce surplus force structure in the remnants of the former Soviet Union were the crowning achievements of the distinguished legislative careers of Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar. These programs became necessary and possible only when Moscow was a supplicant and when Washington was generous to a battered rival. Think of a Marshall Plan narrowly tailored to weapons of mass destruction and disruption, and think of recovery in terms of preventing proliferation and nuclear terrorism - and you have the essence of the Nunn-Lugar initiatives.
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The Real Nuclear Nightmare When It Comes
to U.S.- Russian Ties
Matthew Bunn, The National Interest
January 24, 2015
In the dark days at the turn of the year, all but a few bits of U.S.-Russian cooperation to strengthen nuclear security in Russia came to a halt. No longer, for now at least, will U.S. experts work with counterparts at major Russian nuclear facilities to implement better means to prevent insiders from stealing fissile material, or to improve accounting, so a theft would be quickly detected.
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Tape: Scientist Offers to Build Nuke Bomb Targeting New York
The Associated Press
January 28, 2015
A disgruntled, former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist promised to build 40 nuclear weapons for Venezuela in 10 years and design a bomb targeted for New York City in exchange for "money and power," according to secret FBI recordings released Wednesday.
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Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age
Gregory D. Koblentz, Council on Foreign Relations
November 2014
Since the end of the Cold War, a new nuclear order has emerged, shaped by rising nuclear states and military technologies that threaten stability, writes George Mason University's Gregory Koblentz in a new Council Special Report.
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