REP. FORTENBERRY: …The most important — perhaps one of the most important things that you and I do — can do in our time of public service is to ensure that we decrease the probability of the use of a nuclear device to as close to zero as possible. …
Ukraine and the future of nonproliferation
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on April 4, 2014. Article summary below; read the full text here. Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine has left many observers fearing that Washington and Moscow are headed towards a new Cold War. It is not surprising, then, that the crisis has spawned plenty of chatter […]
Obama’s nuclear legacy on the line
by Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on February 27, 2013. Article summary below; read the full text here. For all the well-justified praise US President Barack Obama has received for his efforts to roll back the Iranian nuclear threat, the rest of his nuclear security agenda has stalled. Obama famously […]
Fact Sheet: FY 2014 Budget Request and Appropriations for Replacement Nuclear Delivery Systems and Warhead Life Extension Programs
by Kingston Reif On January 17 the President signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3457 or the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014). The charts below outline the FY 2014 budget request and Congressional appropriations for the Obama administration’s current plans to rebuild the nuclear triad and its associated warheads and their supporting […]
The Allure of Conventional High-Precision Strike
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently revealed that Russia has begun to acquire its own version of the US military’s “Conventional Prompt Global Strike” (CPGS) capability. If true, it would appear that Mr. Putin has willfully disregarded his own criticism of such capabilities.
