Unblocking the Road to Zero

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• November 19, 2012 / By Barry Blechman
  Presidential Inbox 2013: Implement the Nuclear Posture Review!
  

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  The Challenge

  In April 2010, the Obama Administration completed an inter-agency study of the nation's policies governing

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• November 15, 2012 / By Barry Blechman, Russell Rumbaugh
  Report Release: A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era
  

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long

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• November 15, 2012 / By Barry Blechman, Russell Rumbaugh
  A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era: Military Superiority, Agility, and Efficiency
  

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long study

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• May 21, 2012 / By Barry Blechman
  Success in Baghdad?
  

  The relative success of the first round of talks on Iran's nuclear activities in Istanbul last month and the apparent progress being made in Vienna on establishing a procedure to

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• April 12, 2012 / By Thad Bowman
  A New Approach to Old Talks
  

  After weeks of diplomatic sparring, a venue has finally been set for the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, UK, and the US).  Tehran has

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• March 15, 2012 / By Barry Blechman
  Iran In Perspective: Holding Iran to Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology
  

  The United States and Iran have been at loggerheads since the birth of the Islamic Republic, 33 years ago, but the two nations have never seemed as close to a major military conflict as

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• February 02, 2012 / By Barry Blechman, Ruth Greenspan Bell
  A Course Adjustment for Climate Talks
  

  With little hope that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process will produce an effective treaty, at least for the next several years and perhaps longer,

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• November 08, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  Engaging Iran in the Aftermath of IAEA Report
  

  The latest report on Iran's nuclear activities, released on November 8^th by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reaffirms in stunning detail that

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• October 19, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  Next Steps in U.S.-Russia Arms Control: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  

  Below is the transcription of a presentation delivered by Dr. Barry Blechman to the National Defense University and National Defense Industrial Association Capitol Hill Forum, on

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• October 13, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  The US Should Wield a Stiletto on Iran, not a Club
  

  The Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington is indeed an outrage.  We should take a moment to congratulate US intelligence and law enforcement agencies for their great

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• August 25, 2011 / By Dan Harper
  Are the Iranian Sanctions Working?
  

  The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has passed four resolutions since 2006 that progressively tightened restrictions on nuclear exports to Iran and placed additional controls on

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• July 18, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  Common Sense on Iran
  

  I recently visited 12 American cities - from Anchorage to Colorado Springs to Charleston - to discuss Iran and the effort to stop its nuclear weapons program. I may not have drawn

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• June 22, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program
  

  Iran just can't stay out of the news.  Throughout May, President Ahmadinijad and Iran's so-called Supreme Leader, Khamenei, fought publicly over whose men would run the Oil and

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• April 15, 2011 / By Johan Bergenas
  Nuclear power in Sweden
  

  Nuclear safety is again at the forefront of the international security debate amidst the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan. In Sweden, the dialogue on nuclear energy has prevailed for

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• April 04, 2011 / By Barry Blechman, Max Kampelman
  Turning the dream of a nuclear-free world into reality
  

  
  By Max Kampelman and Barry Blechman

  
  

  Two years ago, President Obama spoke out for universal
  nuclear disarmament in Prague, saying that America would seek the peace

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• March 04, 2011 / By Barry Blechman
  Clearing The Road To Zero
  

  The NEW START agreement, which went into effect earlier this month, will reduce US and Russian operational nuclear warheads on long-range missiles and bombers to 1,550 each.  Even after

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• December 30, 2010 / By Carrielyn O’Connell
  Covert Operations in Iran
  

  Iran's nuclear program has led the international community to fear that Iran is seeking, and may acquire in a few years, a nuclear weapon capability. The US and its allies have sought

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• December 22, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  New START: A Win for Common Sense
  

  Exceptional performances deserve recognition, and there are many worth noting after the Senate's consent to ratifying New START with five votes to spare on December 22nd.  Here's my

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• December 01, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Verifying Nuclear Arms Reduction
  

  Many of New START's harshest critics argue that the Treaty's monitoring provisions are deficient. Shelving the Treaty will not improve verification.  On the contrary, doing so will deal

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• November 16, 2010 / By Barry Blechman, Daniel Brumberg, Steven Heydemann
  Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge
  

  US Iran policy has been long on the tactics and techniques of sanctions, and short on a clear, coherent, strategic vision of the kind of US-Iranian relationship Washington ultimately

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• October 22, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Scare Tactics
  

  Money is the mother's milk of politics; motivation is the mother's milk of the politics of treaty ratification.  Arms control battles in the United States tend to be uneven fights --

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• July 31, 2010 / By Ellen Laipson, Barry Blechman, Brian Finlay, Andrew Houk
  Report on the Workshop: Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Realities
  

  In the future, 2009 and 2010 may emerge as a decisive time in the evolution of international nuclear policies.  The global demand for energy security has led to renewed interest in safe

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• March 19, 2010 / By Barry Blechman
  National Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament
  

  National Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament compiles Unblocking the Road to Zero’s previous country monographs into a single, accessible volume.  Renowned experts discuss the views of

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• January 22, 2010 / By Barry Blechman
  Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty
  

  Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty is a comprehensive analysis of the technical measures required to achieve and sustain a world without nuclear weapons.

  Topics in this far-sighted

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• May 09, 2009 / By Barry Blechman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: Brazil, Japan, Turkey
  

  The Role of Non-Weapon States in Nuclear Disarmament

  The elimination of nuclear weapons is not only a task for countries with nuclear weapons - it cannot be accomplished without key

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• May 08, 2009 / By Barry Blechman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: US and Russia
  

  Can US-Russian nuclear reductions go low enough to make a nuclear weapon-free world possible? 

  
  

  On July 6th, the Kremlin and the White House announced that they would be negotiating a

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• May 07, 2009 / By Barry Blechman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: North Korea and Iran
  

  Delaying Zero:  How can Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs be stopped and even reversed?

  Against the backdrop of North Korea’s nuclear test on May 25th and subsequent missile

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• May 06, 2009 / By Barry Blechman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: Pakistan and Israel
  

  Two Tough Cases: Persuading Israel and Pakistan to Relinquish Nuclear Weapons

  US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have jointly pledged to renew talks for a

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• May 05, 2009 / By Barry Blechman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: China and India
  

  As rising powers in Asia and the world, both China and India are advancing technologically and gaining influence in global economic and political affairs. They are each modernizing their

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• May 04, 2009 / By Bruno Tertrais, Sir Lawrence Freedman
  Unblocking the Road to Zero: France and the UK
  

  Published together in this volume, the first two papers in the series cover America’s allies: France and the UK. Noted nuclear strategist Sir Lawrence Freedman examines how British

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• September 29, 2008 / By Barry Blechman
  Nuclear Proliferation: Avoiding a Pandemic
  

  By Dr. Barry M. Blechman

  The Challenge

  There is serious risk that the international agreements and processes that have kept the number of nations armed with nuclear weapons fairly low

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• October 01, 2000 / By Barry Blechman, Dr. Leo Mackay
  Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Paradigm for a New Century
  

  Arms control, the theory and practice guiding the decades-long effort by the United States and other nations to limit the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD), no longer

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