by Kingston Reif Summary: Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and the rest of the members of the subcommittee deserve great credit for prioritizing essential nuclear and radiological material security and nonproliferation programs. While the House cut the budget for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), the key program in the […]
[Op-Ed] Nature and Malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure
by Duyeon Kim Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 7, 2011: Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure By Igor Khripunov and Duyeon Kim | 7 September 2011 Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different […]
Three Easy Steps to Increase U.S. National Security – With Bipartisan Backing
by Kingston Reif On August 4, Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin described what he labeled the top eight foreign policy and national security issues facing Congress that have stalled because of the debt ceiling crisis. According to Rogin, lawmakers will take up many of these issues when they return to work after the August recess. “Arms […]
[Op-Ed] Time to Think Nuclear Safety-Security
by Duyeon Kim and Igor Khripunov Published in the Korea Times on August 9, 2011 (Korea Standard Time). The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster gave terrorists and other malefactors a tip. By targeting nuclear plants, they can wreak havoc comparable to that wrought by an earthquake and tsunami, crippling a great economic and military power. True, no […]
Parting words: Gates and tactical nuclear weapons in Europe
by Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online on July 14, 2011 Article summary below; read the full text online By Kingston Reif and Emma Lecavalier In a recent speech in Brussels, departing Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized European members of NATO for allowing defense obligations to fall increasingly upon the […]
