by Kingston Reif and Gabrielle Tarini A new Senate bill released at the end of July contains a number of small but critically important victories, most notably in the realm of funding nuclear material security and nonproliferation. As a budget battle between the President and Congress rages on, there is a conspicuous difference in the […]
Real Clear Defense Publishes Article on Nuclear Weapons Policy and Spending by Kingston Reif
Why America Doesn’t Need All Its Nukes…And It Can’t Afford Them Either by Kingston Reif Earlier this week in RealClearDefense, the Foreign Policy Initiative’s Evan Moore made his case for “why America still needs nukes.” Moore points to the conclusions of the recently released National Defense Panel (NDP) report on defense policy as evidence of […]
Inter Press Service News Agency Story on Hiroshima Anniversary Cites Center Report on Global Nuclear Stockpiles
Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat August 7, 2014 by Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Aug 7 2014 (IPS) – It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been […]
NPR Story on North Korea Cites Center Report on North Korea’s Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs
North Korea Reportedly Tests Short-Range Ballistic Missile July 26, 2014 by Scott Neuman North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, according to The Associated Press, which quotes an unnamed South Korean official. The test is described as beginning with a launch in the country’s southwest Hwanghae province on Saturday […]
National Defense Magazine Publishes Story on Missile Defense by Lt. Gen. Robert Gard
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short by Lt. General Robert Gard The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944, prompted initially by German V-2 ballistic missile attacks in Europe during World War II. The most recent initiative is the ground-based midcourse defense system, referred to as […]
