Nuclear Proliferation

The Meaning of Iran's Nuclear Weapon Program

Rhianna Tyson Kreger | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Rhianna Tyson Kreger

It is a dastardly shame and a mark of our collective embarrassment that, over 60 years since the destruction of Hiroshima, that nuclear weapons are still perceived as the best guarantor of respect, prestige and influence.

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Nuclear Strategy: Why a Military Strike on Iran Would Only Make Matters Worse

James Thuerwachter | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: US Iran, Nuclear Strategy Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Iran, Ahmadinejad Iran, Uranium Enrichment, Nuclear Iran Israel, World News
James Thuerwachter

To better resist Iran's nuclear ambitions, powerful nations like the United States should employ methods that will not perpetuate conflict, hinder the global economy or violate state sovereignty. Attacking Iran's nuclear facilities will do all of the above.

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Andrea Stone

Top General Calls For Deep Cuts In Nuclear Arsenal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Russia, Video, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Weapons, Start Treaty, Nuclear Security, Icbm, Nuclear Proliferation, James Cartwright, New Start Treaty, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A blue ribbon commission headed by a former commander of U.S. nuclear forces Tuesday called for an end to "Cold War thinking" and a shar...

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Posturing on Plutonium

William Hartung | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Mckeon, Iran, Buck Mckeon, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, START Congress, Start Obama, Start Treaty, Rep. Michael Turner, Politics News
William Hartung

The last thing we should be doing at this point in our history is indulging Turner's "proliferation posse." At a time when our safety depends on reducing global nuclear arsenals, their ideas are dangerous, unnecessary and unaffordable.

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Ridding The World Of The “Element from Hell”

| David Biello | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Radioactive Plutonium, Nuclear Waste, Video, Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium, Nuclear Power, Physics, Environment, Mox, Science, Nuclear Proliferation, Science News, Science News

The vast majority of the radioactive plutonium on the planet is man-made—roughly 500 metric tons, or enough to make 100,000 nuclear weapons by the c...

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Iran -- Nuclear Weapons, Not Energy

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Uranium Enrichment, Nuclear Power, Uranium, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Iran Uranium, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Rizwan Ladha

Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the majority of the rest of the world questions this assertion. And for good reason.

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Iran Nuclear Crisis -- Disruptive Diplomacy, Not Shock and Awe

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Proliferation, Israel, Greenpeace, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Israel Iran Nuclear, World News
Kumi Naidoo

Nuclear power and nuclear weapons are the Janus faces of nuclear technology: you cannot have one with out the other.

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Obama Confronts Nuclear Threats On World Stage

AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Barack Obama Nuclear, Nuclear Proliferation, Video, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, President Barack Obama, Politics News

SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama is opening his pitch for faster work to lock down nuclear material that could be used by terrorists ...

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IAEA Says Nuclear Security Is Improving

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Iaea Nuclear Security, Nuclear Power, Iaea, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism, International Atomic Energy Agency, World Nuclear Security, Nuclear-Weapons, Nuclear Attacks, Reuters, Green News

* Second nuclear security summit draws Obama, other leaders * IAEA says progress made, but incidents show more needed * ...

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A Follow-up On Iran

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Iran Sanctions, Iran's Nuclear Program, u.s. Foreign Policy, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Iran's Nuclear Weapons, World News
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

I agree with President Obama, President Bush, and President Clinton that Iran can not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.

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Don't Like Nuclear Proliferation? Ban the Bomb.

Rajan Menon | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear-Free Word, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Arms Control, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Rajan Menon

The campaign to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms brings to mind a doctor who focuses on the symptoms while overlooking the disease. If Tehran is indeed building the bomb, it quest is a particular manifestation of a larger problem: nuclear proliferation.

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Washington Can Work: Celebrating Twenty Years With Zero Nuclear Terrorism

Graham Allison | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Soviet Union Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Dick Cheney, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Graham Allison

As Washington antics undermine our confidence in government, it is instructive to think back 20 years to challenges a President and Congress faced in December, 1991.

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North Korea's Surprising Sense of Vulnerability and Hopes for Change

Vishakha N. Desai | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Communism, Negotiations, Art, Nuclear Program, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, Arts, Nuclear Proliferation, Kim Jong Il, China, North Korea, Culture, Kim Jong Un, World News
Vishakha N. Desai

Last June we met with North Korea's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. It was perhaps among the last substantial, non-classified contact between Westerners and high-level North Korean officials of the regime of Kim Jong Il. We were surprised by what transpired.

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The Indispensable Choice: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Lawrence Bender | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Global Zero, Politics News
Lawrence Bender

Rather than retreating from the precipice of an avoidable disaster, almost all of the nine nuclear weapons countries are upgrading their nuclear arms, at an estimated total cost of one trillion dollars over the next decade.

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Nuclear Lesson from Libya: Don't Be Like Qaddafi, Be Like Kim Jong Il

Tad Daley | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, Nuclear Proliferation, Kim Jong Il, Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, World News
Tad Daley

The single most important geopolitical consequence of NATO's air assault directed at overthrowing the Libyan regime will be the irresistible incentive it provides for many other states to seek (or retain) nuclear deterrents of their own.

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Rethinking U.S. Policy Toward Iran

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ahmadinejad Un Speech, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Nicholas Kristof, u.s. Hikers, World News
Jayshree Bajoria

Ahmadinejad's diminishing political fortunes poses a dilemma for the U.S. on the seriousness of any deal the Iranian president proposes on the country's controversial nuclear program.

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Keeping Nuclear Terrorism a Threat Only in Theory

Mark Fitzpatrick | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: September 11, 9/11, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, September 11 Anniversary, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, World News
Mark Fitzpatrick

As the world mourns September 11, some solace might be found in noting that the events that day are still the world's most deadly terrorist attack to date. Osama bin Laden did not fulfill his self-professed religious obligation to obtain nuclear weapons.

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Improving Nuclear Confidence Between India and Pakistan

Rizwan Ladha | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Sm-Krishna, India, Nuclear Proliferation, Fissile Material, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Hina Rabbani Khar, Nuclear Nonproliferation, World News
Rizwan Ladha

The largely positive meeting between Pakistan and India's foreign ministers last week marks an uptick in bilateral relations, but the two countries still have a long way to go.

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Saudi Arabia Will Build Nukes If Iran Gets Them

The Guardian | Jason Burke in Riyadh | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Arms Race, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Saudia-Arabia-Nuclear-Program, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

A senior Saudi Arabian diplomat and member of the ruling royal family has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict in the Middle East if Iran comes clos...

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Make the Punishment Fit the Nuclear Crime

Emma Belcher | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Nuclear Proliferation, Republic of Georgia, North Korea Nuclear Program, Armenians, Georgia, Myanmar, Heu, World News
Emma Belcher

Countries must increase the penalty for all forms of nuclear smuggling, including small quantities and scams. Surely nuclear smuggling deserves punishment befitting the gravity of the crime.

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Who Created Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal?

Jamyang Norbu | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Gary Milhollin, Atoms for Peace Conference, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Islamic Bomb, Cia, Indira Gandhi, Nuclear Proliferation, A.Q Khan, Pakistan, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Osama Bin Laden, Iran, Carnegie Endowment, Saddam Hussein, Nuclear Weapons, Nehru, The Nuclear Express, Qinshan Power Reactors, Bush Administration, WMD Proliferation, David Albright, Libya, India, Newsweek, North Korea, Homi Bhaba, Chasma, Trombay, Khusab, Mnsr, World News
Jamyang Norbu

Pakistanis may hail A.Q. Khan as the father of the "Islamic bomb," but what is generally not mentioned is that his PhD is in metallurgical engineering. He was not involved with the actual design, development and testing of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

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Could "Virtual Deterrence" Actually Increase the Chances of Nuclear War?

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Nuclear Countries, Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons, Nukes, Deterrence, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear War, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Deterrence, National Security, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Bomb, New Start, World News
Russ Wellen

In its inability to signal a true commitment to nuclear disarmament, virtual deterrence is hardly ideal. But it sounds like a step in the right direction, right? Wrong.

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Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation

Alexia Parks | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Aplastic Anemia, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hypoxia, Fukushima, Health Risks, Tokyo Electric Power, Nuclear Power, Fukushima-Dai-Ichi-Plant, Decomissioning, Nagasaki, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Immune System, Radiation, Chromosomes, Anemia, Leukemia, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Hiroshima, Spent Fuel Rods, Nuclear Proliferation, Joel Rauch M.D., Health Care, Three Mile Island, Home News
Alexia Parks

While the world news media has shifted its attention elsewhere, tragedy continues to unfold at Tokyo Electric Power's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

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Five Next Steps To Increase American Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, SuPR Group, New Start, US Russia Relations, Igor Ivanov, Nuclear Arms, Start Treaty, Nuclear Proliferation, Madeleine Albright, World News
Joe Cirincione

There's one less threat to America this week, but there are 21,000 others waiting to explode. That's the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia.

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New Nuclear Project Distracts From Existing Safety (Read: Seismic) Issues

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Nuclear Countries, Wmd, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Los Alamos Study Group, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Warheads, Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Weapons, Nukes, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear War, Nonproliferation, National Security, Nuclear Warhead, Nuclear Testing, Los Alamos, Nuclear Bomb, World News
Russ Wellen

In a cruel joke at a time of supposed disarmament, the CMRR promises to be the most expensive construction project in the history of Los Alamos.

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