By Sam Kane and Kingston Reif WHAT IS THE NEW START TREATY? • The New START treaty is a nuclear arms reduction agreement between the United States and Russia. It was signed in April 2010, approved by the US Senate in December 2010, and entered into force in February 2011. WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF […]
Implementation of the Nuclear Posture Review
by Robert G. Gard The Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review, conducted by an inter-agency task force and published as an unclassified document in April 2010, included as one of its five strategic objectives a reduction in the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy. This declaration was important in countering actions taken by […]
Facts and Fictions about the Nuclear Triad
by Usha Sahay On February 6, I attended a breakfast with North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, who delivered an address on the importance of nuclear deterrence and the U.S. nuclear triad. Sen. Hoeven, whose state houses one of the nation’s 3 ICBM bases, spoke at length about the benefits of a large nuclear arsenal in […]
Analysis of the Conference Version of the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
by Kingston Reif and Laicie Olson On December 18 the Senate and House Armed Services Committees filed the Conference version of the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Click here for the text of the Conference report and here for the Joint Explanatory Statement. The House is scheduled to take up and approve the bill […]
Fact Sheet: Fifteen Foreign-Policy Challenges For the Next President
By Usha Sahay, Rachel Murawski, and Eve Hunter The October 22 presidential debate on national security will cover Afghanistan and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, China, the Middle East, as well as the general issue of “America’s role in the world.” These issues have made headlines in 2012, and been prominent on the campaign trail. But, […]
