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 […]
A Review of the Senate Armed Services Committee Version of the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill
by Kingston Reif and Laicie Heeley On June 16 the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1253). The committee approved $682.5 billion, including $553 billion for the Pentagon base budget, $117.8 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18.1 billion for Department of Energy nuclear programs. […]
