by Duyeon Kim Published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 18, 2011. Fukushima and the Seoul 2012 Nuclear Security Summit By Duyeon Kim | 18 March 2011 In considering the implications of Fukushima for the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit, many experts in the United States would probably argue that there are […]
FY 2011 and FY 2012 Budgets for Nuclear Security
by Kingston Reif By Kingston Reif and Patricia Morris The international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials and keep our nation safe from nuclear terrorism is at a crossroads. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, the President’s budget request and Congressional appropriations for threat reduction programs did not reflect the urgency of the threat. Funding […]
What Would States Sacrifice for Nonproliferation?
by Leonard Weiss Published in the March 2011 issue of The Nonproliferation Review 18:1, 2011, p.11 Christopher Paine and Thomas Cochran have produced an interesting variation on an old idea for enhancing nonproliferation by internationalizing the fuel cycle (see “Nuclear Islands: International Leasing of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Sites to Provide Enduring Assurance of Peaceful Use,” […]
New START’s Nuclear Compromise
by Kingston Reif The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between the United States and Russia officially entered into force in a low-key ceremony in Munich in early February–much to the delight of our military leadership, intelligence community, and just about every national security expert on the planet. The national security case for the […]
How New START Was Won
by Kingston Reif On February 2, President Obama officially ratified the New START treaty in a low-key signing ceremony at the White House. The eight month-long campaign to win the Senate’s approval of the treaty, however, was anything but low-key. It was a knock down, drag out fight, the outcome of which was in doubt […]
