By Duyeon Kim DATE March 26-27, 2012 in Seoul, Korea SIGNIFICANCE AND BACKGROUND The 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit aims to strengthen and deepen nuclear security commitments made at the 2010 Washington Summit. The objective of the summit process is to prevent vulnerable fissile materials that can be used to produce nuclear weapons from […]
[Op-Ed] North Korea: Small Step Forward, Many More to Go
by Duyeon Kim Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 1, 2012. North Korea: Small step forward, many more to go Article Highlights In reaching an agreement with the United States, North Korea took a small positive step, but details of and compliance with the latest agreement will be key in […]
Strategic revelation
by John Isaacs Executive Director John Isaacs discusses the AP leak of cutting our nuclear force over at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. His piece, “Strategic Revelation” was published February 23, 2012. One of the time-honored traditions for influencing debates in Washington, DC, is to leak confidential information to the press. The Pentagon Papers, […]
Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force
by Robert G. Gard Lt. General Gard’s op-ed “Reason over Relics: Restructuring our Nuclear Force” was originally published in The Hill’sCongress Blog on February 22, 2012. In To End All Wars, his excellent history of World War I, author Adam Hochschild recounts how passionately some strategists defended the perceived essential role of the horse […]
The Dawn of Nuclear Sanity?
by John Isaacs There are signs that nuclear sanity is slowly gaining a foothold. Proposals are being considered by the Obama Administration that could pave the way for deep cuts in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons. Despite howls of protest from the Jack D. Rippers of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop […]
