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May 20, 2010

GOP Critics vs. the Pentagon

A distressing trend has developed in relation to the politicization of U.S. nuclear weapons policy - President Obama is criticized, while Pentagon support for the president is ignored. In short, there is a pattern emerging of selective and misleading outrage, with partisan critics caricaturizing Obama's policies while neglecting to mention or acknowledge that the policies he is advancing enjoy the strong support of the nation's military leadership, writes General Robert Gard in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Apr 27, 2010

New START and the Obama Nuclear Agenda

Despite the end of the U.S.-Soviet competition, the remaining 23,000 nuclear bombs across the globe present a clear and present danger to U.S. security. The President's program to focus the world's attention on this problem and to take serious steps to ameliorate this threat is critical to preventing nuclear catastrophes, write Robert Gard and John Isaacs in the Huffington Post.

Apr 25, 2010

New START Treaty Crucial for U.S. Security

Reducing the numbers and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons will require a global effort, and both New START and the test ban treaty are critical measures that will do both, greatly enhancing our national security. The fate of New START in the Senate will decide the outcome of our nuclear spring and our hopes for a more secure future, writes Richard Klass in the Sun Journal.

Apr 19, 2010

Young voices critical to advancing nuclear security

Indeed, the greatest national security threat for my generation is no longer determined by which countries possess nuclear weapons — it is the very existence of the weapons themselves, writes Katie Mounts in the Times Record.

Apr 19, 2010

Nuclear weapons are relics

Once approved by each county’s legislative bodies, New START will make important advances in reducing the unnecessarily large nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia. It’s high time for nuclear weapons--vestiges of a bygone era--to be drastically and decisively reduced in number, writes Mary Slosson in the Register Citizen.

Apr 14, 2010

Those Were the Weeks That Were: Nuclear Spring

Stepping back from the past few frantic days on nuclear weapons issues, it is useful to realize how much has been accomplished. The last two weeks have arguably been the two most eventful weeks on reducing the dangers posed by nuclear weapons since the advent of the nuclear age, writes John Isaacs in this new analysis.

Apr 14, 2010

START follow-on: The Senate calculus

On April 8, after nearly a year of tough negotiations, the U.S. and Russia signed the "New START" treaty in Prague, Czech Republic. As John Isaacs explains in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the result of these difficult negotiations will now face what could be equally tortuous consideration by the U.S. Senate.

Apr 5, 2010

Response to Hendrik Hertzberg

Given the documented interest in nuclear materials of terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, and given the questionable assumptions that nuclear-energy economics is fraught with, it makes little sense to push nuclear power at a time when protections against proliferation are still so problematic, writes Leonard Weiss in the New Yorker.

Mar 29, 2010

Analysis of the "New START" Treaty

On March 26, President Obama announced that after nearly a year of tough negotiations, the U.S. and Russia have reached agreement on the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures to Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the “New START Treaty”). In this analysis, John Isaacs and Kingston Reif examine what is known about the treaty to date.

Mar 15, 2010

India and the NPT

National Advisory Board member Leonard Weiss publishes an article on India and the forthcoming 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in the March 2010 edition of Strategic Analysis.

Mar 9, 2010

Lips and Teeth

If it is true that North Korea’s WMD programs are being funded principally from illicit arms sales, then it is imperative that China take its UN Security Council sanctions obligations more seriously. In this new analysis, we question whether this duty will ever be compatible with China’s goal of maintaining North Korean regime stability.

Mar 2, 2010

FY 2011 Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Funding

In his historic Prague speech on nuclear weapons, President Obama pledged that the United States would lead “a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” While last year's budget request was well below what is necessary to begin the hard work of achieving this lofty goal, the administration's Fiscal Year 2011 request includes significant increases for many key threat reduction and nonproliferation programs.

Feb 24, 2010

The Obama disarmament paradox: A rebuttal

Greg Mello's recent Bulletin article "The Obama Disarmament Paradox" distorts the Obama administration's nuclear agenda by making unjustified assumptions that discredit President Barack Obama's historic commitment to seek a nuclear-weapon-free world, write John Isaacs and Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, Jr. (USA, ret.) in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Feb 24, 2010

Fact Sheet: 2010 Nuclear Posture Review

The Nuclear Posture Review is scheduled for release sometime in March or April 2010. The review will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next five to ten years and influence the implementation of President Obama's far-reaching agenda to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons laid out in Prague. In this new factsheet, Kingston Reif examines the background, purpose, significance, and challenges of the Nuclear Posture Review.

Feb 7, 2010

Letter to Congress to support nuclear security funding in FY11 next CR

The Fissile Material Working Group, of which the Center is a member of, wrote a letter to each member of Congress urging full funding for crucial non proliferation programs in the FY11 next Continuing Resolution.

Feb 3, 2010

The Reliability and Safety of U.S. Nuclear Weapons

On January 28, 2010 at a Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation briefing for Senate staffers that was moderated by Center Chairman Lt. General Robert Gard (USA, Ret.), Dr. Richard Garwin discussed the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons and options to ensure that these weapons remain safe and secure, and provided insight into what “modernization” is necessary.

Feb 2, 2010

Biological Threats: A Matter of Balance

In the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Center's Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons Control argues that the Graham-Talent WMD Commission exaggerates the bioterrorist threat and proposes solutions that won't produce the comprehensive approach needed to strengthen public health security.

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