Job Opportunities in Nuclear Facilities System Engineering
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is looking for recent graduates with a background in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil/structural engineering for positions in nuclear facilities systems engineering.
Employees will work in a multi-disciplinary team environment that includes scientists, engineers, and technicians. They will learn to identify, design, and solve complex technical or multidisciplinary problems and will be introduced to a wide variety of topics and facilities, including the Plutonium Facility, Tritium Facility, Radiography Facility, and Waste Storage Facilities.
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Internships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The Global Security Technology and Policy Group (GSTP) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) combines policy, science, and technology to promote global cooperation and sustainability, with a particular focus on preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Positions are available with GSTP at PNNL's Seattle office. These are focused on nuclear nonproliferation policy and export controls. Deadline to apply is April 2, 2016. Applicants must be US citizens.
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AP Analysis: North Korea Nuke Threat Not All Bluff and Bluster
Eric Talmadge, The Washington Times
March 15, 2016
Skeptics of North Korea's nuclear threat, and there are many, have long clung to two comforting thoughts. While the North has the bomb, it doesn't have a warhead small enough to put on a long-range rocket. And it certainly doesn't have a re-entry vehicle to keep that warhead from burning up in the atmosphere before it could reach a target like, as it has suggested before, Manhattan.
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South Korea Says North Korea Bluffing on Mini Warhead Claims
Elizabeth Shim, United Press International
March 14, 2016
Seoul does not believe North Korea has reached a stage where nuclear weapons can be mounted on ballistic missiles.
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Five Things You Need to Know about Kim Jong Un's Photo Op with the Bomb
March 11, 2016
On March 9, KCNA and Rodong Sinmun announced that Kim Jong Un had visited a facility where he learned about North Korea's progress in mating nuclear weapons to ballistic missiles.
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North Korea's Purported Nuke Looks Like a Cartoon Bomb
Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science
March 9, 2016
The March 9th, 2016 front page of Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's official state-run newspaper, features a glistening spherical nuclear weapon. It looks like a cartoon bomb.
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What Can America Do with Nuclear Weapons?
James Jay Carafano, The National Interest
March 14, 2016
Nuclear and missile defense policy has rated about ten nanoseconds of airtime among the candidates pursuing the Oval Office. But, eventually, someone will win and be forced to abandon rhetorical ramblings for the reality of governing.
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Trump, America's Word, and the Bomb
Douglas J. Feith, National Review
March 14, 2016
The Obama-Clinton team originally promised to strengthen nuclear non-proliferation. It wound up doing the opposite. We now have the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. That would aggravate the problem.
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Nuke Security Law to Be Made
March 11, 2016
China's nuclear security law has been included in its legislation plan, which analysts believe would strictly regulate the booming industry, as well as provide legal grounds to maximize the energy structure.
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China for 'Through Discussions' on India, Other Nations Joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group
March 10, 2016
China on Thursday said it will not back India's bid alone to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group as "other states" are also aspiring to join the elite 48-member club and asserted that any decision on the inclusion of new members will be based on "consensus".
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Can Rouhani Deliver on the Iranian Nuclear Deal's Economic Promise?
Amir Handjani, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 9, 2016
For a country of 77 million people who have endured tremendous hardship over the last decade, the nuclear deal represents Iran's best opportunity to achieve much-needed economic reforms.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LABS
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Stop Wasting Time--Create a Long-Term Solution for Nuclear Waste
The Editors, Scientific American
April 1, 2016
Three decades after Chernobyl, the U.S. needs to tackle its own ominous nuclear safety problem
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At Sandia, Los Alamos National Labs, Cultivating Economic Growth for New Mexico
Bruce Krasnow, The New Mexican
March 14, 2016
Sandia and the labs have a role in changing the economic climate in New Mexico. That role was front and center during a technology transfer showcase last week at Sandia National Laboratories' Center for Global Security & Cooperation.
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ARMS CONTROL AND DETERRENCE
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Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
March 14, 2016
The law of war consists of two parts: jus ad bellum (justice of war) and jus in bello (justice in war, i.e., in the conduct of war).
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Why Young People Think Nuclear Weapons Are History
Chapin Boyer, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 11, 2016
Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945.
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Debunking Nuclear Security Hype on the Eve of the Nuclear Security Summit
Minsu Crowder-Han, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 10, 2016
News stories about nuclear security tend to follow a pattern: terrorists, smugglers, highly enriched uranium, loose nukes, mushroom clouds, the end. But have we really been teetering on the brink of nuclear terror since the early 1990s, when the term "nuclear terrorism" first entered the beltway lexicon? Probably not. So is nuclear security just the cause célèbre of fear-mongering, attention-seeking worrywarts? Again, probably not.
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Commentary: NATO Must Reopen the Nuclear Dossier
Karl-Heinz Kamp, Defense News
March 9, 2016
Months before the summit of NATO's leaders in Warsaw in July, there is hesitance to tackle the issue of nuclear deterrence.
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