The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation today applauds the Pentagon’s decision to scale back Pentagon spending in a way that best provides for the strength and security of our country, but labeled the move “only a step in the right direction.”
Death of North Korean Leader
On December 18, 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il died–the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation has released the following statement about the recent news.
[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 […]
[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 […]
A Joint Study on Nuclear Terrorism
by Robert G. Gard On June 6, 2011, the Belfer Center at Harvard University released the results of a year-long study entitled “The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment on Nuclear Terrorism”. The study is significant because, between them, the U.S. and Russia possess about 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons and weapons grade nuclear materials that […]