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Parameters Summer 2004 Justin Bernier |
The Death of Disarmament in Russia? Traditional arms control agreements with Russia, it seems, are as much a part of Cold War history as the Soviet Union itself. |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals. |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts. |
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Erin McCarthy |
Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
National Defense June 2009 Clark A. Murdock |
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise. |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Missile defense goes global Bush seeks to woo Europe while violating our hallmark arms control agreement with Russia. Analysts react to the president's speech... |
Popular Mechanics September 3, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
U.S. and Russian Nukes Get Sophisticated as Numbers Dwindle Arms control efforts may become a casualty as the Russian invasion of Georgia deepens mistrust between the United States and Russia. |
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling |
Oil Is Out; Is Nuclear In? Put yourself in an imaginary time machine and set the dial to around the year 2040. The exorbitant price of oil, now at $500 a barrel, has pushed a good chunk of the globe toward nuclear power. |
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson |
7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror. |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Stan Crock |
Back To The Cold War? Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea are amassing a nuclear arsenal. What should Washington do? |
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Stan Crock |
Two Ways To Stop The Spread Of Nukes The awful truth is that the world is a more dangerous place now than it was even during the Cold War. But new ideas may yet help to lower the nuclear peril. |
Salon.com June 26, 2000 David Horowitz |
Al Gore's missile-defense dodge The vice president cares more about reassuring the Russians than protecting Americans, and that's why George W. Bush should be president. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall |
Dubya's atomic fib Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's Star Wars plan could help fuel one. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet |
Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems. |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 M. V. Ramana |
More Missiles Than Megawatts India's nuclear choices have favored warheads over civilian reactors, and those choices are taking their toll. Between its burgeoning economy and a population that is projected to eclipse China's by 2050, India has difficult choices to make regarding its energy future. |
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Smith |
A New Threat for Investors Worrying news from London about the Middle East could rattle markets. |
National Defense April 2009 |
Nuke Recycling Nuclear power is stymied in this country from unnatural fear. |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Nader Elhefnawy |
The Next Wave of Nuclear Proliferation Record oil prices and long-term concerns about fossil fuel supplies have helped revive interest in nuclear energy production, but little consideration has been given to the security implications of using it on a global scale. |
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Simon Cooper |
North Korea's Biochemical Threat While its nuclear test spurs outrage, North Korea grows a vast biochemical weapons arsenal in secrecy. We investigate Kim Jong Il's deception, his country's human trials and the terror potential of this rogue nation's deadly harvest. |
National Defense June 2011 Grace V. Jean |
U.S. Strategy To Combat Bioterrorism Takes Global View The Defense Department has embarked on a multi-hundred-million dollar effort to protect troops from bioterrorism. Its strategy focuses on containing potential outbreaks in areas of the world where pathogens are known to exist. |
National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances. |
TIME Asia February 28, 2011 Eben Harrell |
Nuclear Batteries Hyperion Power Generation Inc. offers the nuclear battery -- so called because it is cheap, small and easily transportable and has many environmental benefits. It also has its detractors. |
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stan Crock |
North Korea: Talking Is One Thing. Getting Somewhere Is Another Negotiations expected to begin in September involving North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. are likely to be the most difficult and complex the Bush Administration has attempted so far. The Administration faces a host of dilemmas. |
Popular Mechanics July 9, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
As Iran Tests Missile Fleet, Experts Map High-Tech Israeli Attack Iran announced that it had tested nine ballistic missiles, but the country's stockpile of U.S.-built I-HAWK missiles would pose the biggest threat as anti-aircraft weapons in defending against a potential attack on its nuclear facilities. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum |
What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution. |
Salon.com January 2, 2003 Robert Scheer |
Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine. |
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al. |
Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Salon.com August 16, 2000 Daryl Lindsey |
Gray lady down The sinking of the Kursk raises questions about the safety of Russia's nuclear submarines. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Taming the bear In a new book, former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants... |
Science News June 20, 2009 Elizabeth Quill |
Book Review: The Bomb: A New History By Stephen M. Younger Younger offers a straightforward account of nuclear weapons: how they were developed, how they work and how they forced humankind into constant vulnerability |
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
The backward Bushies The White House has started a new arms race using old, Cold War logic... |
Geotimes August 2005 Katie Donnelly |
The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Annie Turner |
The View From Europe: Proposed U.S. Missile Shield in Europe Alarms Russians, Irks Some Europeans In an attempt to protect itself from the threat of intercontinental attacks, the U.S. has thoroughly alarmed the Russians and ensured that European nations have their own welfare, not the continent's, at heart. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Eugene Gerden |
Russia pays high scientific price over Ukraine The annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and the subsequent tensions over Ukraine has seen the US Department of Energy impose a ban on scientists from Russia working in its physics and chemistry laboratories. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 |
Q&A: Richard L. Garwin, Expert on Nuclear Weapons Richard L. Garwin talks about his views on the presumed North Korean nuclear test of 9 October. Four days later the U.S. government detected radiation, and on Monday 16 October it confirmed that a nuclear test had indeed occurred. |
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio |
The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
AskMen.com |
A Missile Strike On Hawaii? North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. |
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan |
Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity. |
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 |
Can The U.N. Beef Up Controls On Nukes? Mohamed Elbaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wants a stronger regime for containing the spread of nuclear weapons. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gawdat Bahgat |
Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East It is time that those responsible for crafting the policies and strategies for the region understand that US and Iranian interests are not by definition mutually exclusive. |