“Lessening the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons usable materials is a vital national security and fiscal priority,” said Kingston Reif, director of non-proliferation programs at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “There is an emerging bipartisan and military consensus that a significantly smaller stockpile would meet our security needs. In this time of economic uncertainty, further reductions with Russia could create significant cost savings that would free funding for higher priority security programs.”
Duyeon Kim Appears on World News Today Discussing North Korea’s Third Nuclear Test
Senior non-proliferation and East Asia fellow, Duyeon Kim, joins BBC World News Today to discuss North Korea’s third nuclear test. Watch the video here.
Philip Coyle Quoted by McClathcy-Tribune News on North Korea’s Third Nuclear Test
Scientists and security experts studying North Korea’s nuclear test on Tuesday believe the rogue nation is closing in on being able to place a nuclear weapon atop a missile and loft it at another country. That, all believe, immediately raised the stakes of the dangerous game the North Koreans have been playing for the past […]
U.S. Nuclear Strategy to Make State of the Union – That’s a Good Thing
“I’ve been working on this issue for more than three decades and I’ve seen a continuous progression within the mainstream of both parties moving toward a safer world with fewer nuclear weapons,” said John Isaacs, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World.
North Korean Nuclear Test Raises Stakes in the Region
An artificial magnitude 5.1 earthquake was detected that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said displayed “clear explosion-like characteristics.” It will take time to ascertain important elements of the test including the yield (or size) of the explosion and the nuclear material with which it was constructed.