Moving the starting point of nuclear safeguards
…by ‘moving up’ the starting point, more nuclear material in non-nuclear weapons states with conversion facilities now fall under the definition of nuclear material subject to safeguards under Article 34(c)…
India of Two Minds: Reactions to the Pending China-Pakistan Nuclear Deal
…the past, and is widely reported to have provided the design of a nuclear weapon. China also has helped Pakistan build nuclear power plants. The China-Pakistan nuclear deal may expand…
DPRK Deadlock: Implications for the Future of US-Japan Defense Cooperation
…nuclear program from “dismantlement” to “containment,” acquiescing to Pyongyang’s status as a de facto nuclear weapons state as long as it does not proliferate. The probability of such a policy shift by…
Amid Evolving Risks, Momentum to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism has Waned
…more to address these challenges given this security landscape.” During four Nuclear Security Summits from 2010 to 2016, governments, civil society, and nuclear industry pledged to increase nuclear security….
Clearing The Road To Zero
…glaring problems in their conventional military forces, Russian military doctrine increasingly stresses the possible use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield. And they are following suit by deploying nuclear weapons…
Law and Policy Guide to US Arms Transfers to Israel
…section of the policy commits to a clear red line: the United States will not transfer weapons when it is “more likely than not” that those weapons will be used…
Lincoln Bloomfield testifies at House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on weapons securement
…decisions. Consider the search for Libyan weapons after the fall of Qadhafi. Since Libya had previously given up its WMD program, the focus here was conventional weapons, principally MANPADS (shoulder-fired…
Barry Blechman is quoted in Bio Prep Watch on nuclear proliferation
…in New York on Oct. 16. “If states see nuclear weapons not as weapons but as powerful political symbols that confer enormous status and influence, and that (nuclear weapons) are…