On the Center’s website, I’ve written a long piece on the new sanctions bills that the House and Senate will be considering in the next few months. Some of them are measures similar to what we’ve seen before, but there are also some new twists being mu…
Congress Plans Tough New Sanctions Amidst Widespread Skepticism
By Usha Sahay May 21, 2013 It’s getting hot and humid here in D.C., and it looks like we’re kicking off a long, hot summer of new Iran sanctions. On Wednesday, May 22, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark up the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act. The new bill expands already stringent sanctions on Iran […]
It’s smart to scale back nuclear weapons spending
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on May 21, 2013. Article summary below; read the full text here. As part of his effort to win Republican support for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in 2010, President Obama submitted to lawmakers a 10-year plan to maintain and modernize US nuclear warheads, […]
HASC preparing to go wild
At last week’s House Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing on the FY 2014 budget request for nuclear weapons programs at the Department of Energy and the Pentagon, Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) once again declared his intention to use t…
Pruning the Nuclear Triad? Pros and Cons of Submarines, Bombers, and Missiles
by Kingston Reif and Travis Sharp Updated by Usha Sahay Since 1959, the United States has maintained a “triad” of nuclear weapons delivery systems, which consists of nuclear-armed bombers, land-based missiles, and submarine-launched missiles. Traditionally, it has been argued that the triad, with its three distinct delivery platforms, offers the U.S. a diverse set of […]