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Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Boot Camp Now Accepting Applications
This year's boot camp will be held June 19-29. Deadline to apply is February 19.
The summer workshop-in-residence at UC San Diego aims to give participants the knowledge and analytic tools to contribute to the debate on future US nuclear policy. The boot camp features lectures, discussions, debates, and policy simulations. Participants attend talks by distinguished researchers, academics, policy officials, and operational specialists from leading universities, the National Laboratories, international organizations, and government agencies dealing with nuclear threats, detection sciences, nonproliferation strategies, energy policy, and other nuclear issues.
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Russia Is Developing a Nuclear-powered Engine to Explore Space
Kelly Dickerson, Tech Insider
The Russian space agency just announced that it's working on a very unusual project: a nuclear reactor-powered rocket engine capable of propelling spacecraft out into the cosmos.
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New Estimates of Iran's Petroleum Exports and Income After the Nuclear Implementation Day and Reductions in Sanctions
Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
The decades since the first major oil embargo in 1973 have shown all too clearly that no one can predict oil and gas prices and petroleum export revenues. This is particularly true when key exporters like Iraq and Libya are at war, production is partly driven by the tensions between Iran and its Arab neighbors, new sources of production are coming on line, and the world seems be headed for a China-driven collapse of demand.
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Center for Nonproliferation Studies
January 14, 2016
When North Korea released footage on January 8 from a purportedly successful KN-11 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) test, analysts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, including Catherine Dill, Melissa Hanham, Bo Kim, Jeffrey Lewis, and Dave Schmerler, analyzed the video frame by frame, ultimately concluding that the video footage was manipulated and that, despite North Korean government claims to the contrary, the SLBM test was a failure.
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ARMS CONTROL AND NONPROLIFERATION
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord are major diplomatic achievements, but they constitute only small bright spots in a darker world situation full of potential for catastrophe.
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What's Our Central Organizing Principle?
Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
January 26, 2016
Every successful business, cause or social movement needs a central organizing principle, including the Nuclear Enterprise and the Arms Control Enterprise. Under the cloak of safe-sounding deterrence, the Nuclear Enterprise in the United States and Russia is built around Gates of Hell nuclear war-fighting capabilities. The result is excessive numbers of targets and warheads, big-ticket items, and their costly replacements.
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