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University of Georgia Masters in International Policy (MIP)
Apply for Fall 2016 by March 1, 2016
The MIP is not a traditional graduate degree. Instead, it is designed specifically for future policymakers and analysts and is taught by nuclear experts at the Center for International Trade and Security, as well as by scholars in the Department of International Affairs. The curriculum focuses on strategic trade, nuclear security, and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Graduates of the program have gone to work for organizations like the National Nuclear Security Administration, the United States Navy, and United Technologies Aerospace Systems. Assistantship opportunities are available.
To learn more about the MIP, contact Program Director Dr. Sara Kutchesfahani (szk@uga.edu).
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Summer Internships in Nuclear Forensics and Environmental Radiochemisty
Deadline to apply: February 26, 2016
The Seaborg Institute is again soliciting graduate student applications for a summer program in Nuclear Forensics and Environmental Radiochemistry at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The eight-week program is open to US citizens who are enrolled in a graduate program or are entering one in the fall.
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What the Pentagon Thinks About North Korea
Ankit Panda, the Diplomat
The report offers insight into the Pentagon's assessments of North Korea's military abilities, including the expected progress of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program. According to the report, North Korea's KN-08 road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, also known as the Nodong-C, would be capable of reaching "much of the continental United States."
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Highlights and Initial Thoughts from the DPRK Launch
Melissa Hanham, Arms Control Wonk
North Korea launched a rocket from its Sohae Satellite Launching Station just after 9:00am on 7 February local time. North Korea notified the International Maritime Organization of its projected splashdown zones and later revised it to a window of 7-14 February.
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A Plan to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran
Raymond Tanter, Foreign Policy
For the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jan. 17 Implementation Day of the nuclear deal and Feb. 11 commemoration of the founding of the Islamic Republic highlight two faces of the state. On one side, the deal shows a normal state that can become nuclear-arms capable within 10 years. On the other side, the deal is with a revolutionary state.
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Iran Nuclear Deal Delays Bomb by 10 to 15 Years IISS: Chief
The agreement struck in Vienna in July between Iran and the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5 plus one) sees sanctions progressively lifted in return for Tehran ensuring its nuclear program remains for civilian use.
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Does Iran Really Prefer Nuclear Missiles to Suitcase Nukes?
Thomas McArdle, Investor's Business Daily
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INFOGRAPHIC: How Do We Know Iran Isn't Building a Nuclear Bomb?
The Iran Deal puts in place unprecedented monitoring and verification measures to ensure Iran does not build a nuclear weapon.
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The Other Bomb: Pakistan's Dangerous Nuclear Strategy
Joseph Micallef, Huffington Post
February 10, 2016
In recent years the concern over nuclear proliferation has centered on Iran's ongoing effort to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, however, may prove to be just as dangerous and just as destabilizing as that of Tehran's. That country is well on its way, within another decade, to amassing the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
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REPORT: China's Military Calls for Putting Its Nuclear Forces on Alert (2016)
Gregory Kulacki,
Union of Concerned Scientists
January 2016
In contrast with the United States, which keeps hundreds of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, China's longstanding approach to nuclear deterrence is premised on "survivability"-the idea that some fraction of their 250 or so nuclear warheads could survive a nuclear first strike and retaliate afterwards. Since the strategy doesn't require rapid launch, China's warheads aren't currently attached to missiles or bombs, and instead are hidden away in tunnels and military installations.
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Victor Gilinsky, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Israel has acquired a fleet of advanced German submarines that-Prime Minister Netanyahu has signaled-carry nuclear weapons pointed at Iran. The Obama administration's pretense that it knows nothing about any nuclear weapons in Israel makes intelligent discussion about the dangers of nuclear weapons in the Middle East all but impossible. It has also vastly diminished respect for America's broader worldwide effort to control the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Aaron Mehta, Defense News
The building will spend roughly $3.2 billion on programs to modernize and recapitalize the service's nuclear submarines, bombers, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and nuclear equipped cruise missiles in 2017, a total that will increase throughout the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). That also includes a small amount of funding to continue development on the F-35 joint strike fighter to enable it to carry nuclear weapons.
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Robert Alvarez, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Now under the national news media spotlight, a landfill adjoined to the West Lake dump has experienced a growing underground fire for the past five years. The fire is estimated to be about 1,000 feet from the radioactive material. Consultants for Missouri Attorney General Kris Koster indicated in November 2015 that, in the worst case, the fire could reach the radioactive material in a matter of a few months. An official for the Republic Corporation, which owns the landfill, contends the fire is moving away from the wastes.
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ARMS CONTROL AND DETERRENCE
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Union of Concerned Scientists
Accidental nuclear war is more often portrayed as the subject of science fiction, not an actual possibility. But despite the Cold War ending decades ago, the United States and Russia still keep hundreds of nuclear weapons on high alert, ready to launch. Also known as "hair-trigger alert," this rapid launch option significantly raises the risk of an accidental, unauthorized, or mistaken nuclear attack, with no appreciable benefits to national security.
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Mark Hibbs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
There are four main rationales for such a policy: the global evolution of states' nuclear supply capabilities; the nuclear-weapon-related capabilities of India and Pakistan; the desire of some NSG participating governments (PGs) to admit India as a member, including for reasons unrelated to nuclear trade controls; and the absence of clarity concerning the NSG's nonproliferation mission since 2008, when the PGs agreed to except India from the NSG guidelines conditioning nuclear trade with NSG participating countries on NPT membership or full-scope International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
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Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
Twenty years since completion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations, the Treaty remains in limbo because of its non-entry-into-force provision.
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Miles A. Pomper, World Politics Review
U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to preventing and rolling back the spread of nuclear weapons was clear from the first days of his administration, when he pledged in Prague in April 2009 "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons."
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Heather Williams, the Interpreter
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Anna Fifield, Washington Post
Seen from the road below, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station looks much as it may have right after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that caused a triple meltdown here almost five years ago.
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Carole Nakhle, Carnegie Middle East Center
Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have announced plans to embrace nuclear power as part of their future energy mix.
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This methodology gives investigators and other government entities the ability to track the production source of black market nuclear materials, specifically plutonium.
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The technology can become part of integrated mosquito control programmes in IAEA Member States.
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Researchers ran a test designed to bring them a step closer to finding a clean replacement for fossil fuels. The experiment was part of an effort to advance nuclear fusion technology.
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