By Kingston Reif, Travis Sharp, and Kirk Bansak As the United States and Russia contemplate further bilateral reductions in nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles beyond those required by New START, attention must be paid to the composition of each country’s strategic arsenal of nuclear-armed bombers, land-based missiles, and submarine-based missiles. To understand the stability that […]
Adding Money to Weapons from Nonproliferation is a Bad Trade
by Kingston Reif On October 6 House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) sent a letter signed by the Republican members of the Subcommittee to Senate appropriators asking that they fully fund the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 request for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) weapons activities account. Turner also sent a […]
Nuclear Turkeys
by Kingston Reif Kingston Reif, “Nuclear Turkeys: The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union” was featured on Yuba Net on November 14, 2011. By the time you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, the 12-member congressional supercommittee will have succeeded in meeting its November 23 deadline to approve a […]
Two treaties. One Congress. No time to wait.
by Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online on September 15, 2011 Article summary below; read the full text online By Kingston Reif and Miles Pomper While Washington, DC, is paralyzed by partisanship on most topics, there is one issue that commands overwhelming bipartisan agreement: the threat posed to US national […]
Review of the Senate Appropriations Committee Version of the FY 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
by Kingston Reif Summary: Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and the rest of the members of the subcommittee deserve great credit for prioritizing essential nuclear and radiological material security and nonproliferation programs. While the House cut the budget for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), the key program in the […]
