Nuclear Proliferation


Senior U.S. Official Doubts Conventional Global Strike Value -- Elaine M. Grossman  -- Global Security Newswire  -- November 26, 2008
Global Strategic Strike

A senior U.S. defense official last week cast doubt on the national security value of proposed conventional weapons capable of hitting targets anywhere around the world on short notice.

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Sounding the Nuclear Alarm -- Melanie Kirkpatrick  -- Wall Street Journal  -- November 21, 2008
Nuclear Proliferation

USAF General Kevin Chilton, head of U.S. Strategic Command, argues that the current U.S. nuclear arsenal is in drastic need of a technological upgrade to ensure its reliability as the majority of the arsenal was built using technology from the 1950s.

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Use of Nuclear Weapons more Likely in Future: US intelligence -- Agence France Presse  -- November 20, 2008
Nuclear Proliferation

The use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely by 2025, US intelligence warned Thursday in a report on global trends that forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war.

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Obama seen Helping put Atom Test Ban Pact in Force -- Mark Heinrich  -- Reuters  -- November 19, 2008
Nuclear Testing

The election of Barack Obama as U.S. president has given crucial impetus toward implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty more than a decade after it was negotiated, according to test ban officials.

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North Korea Limits Tests of Nuclear Site -- Choe Sang-Hun  -- New York Times  -- November 13, 2008
Nuclear Proliferation

In its first major act of defiance since Senator Barack Obama’s election, North Korea said Wednesday that it would bar international nuclear inspectors from taking soil and nuclear waste samples, which are considered crucial to determining the extent of its weapons program.

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Secret Rocket Balls Target WMD Bunkers -- David Hambling  -- Wired Danger Room  -- November 12, 2008
Hard and Deeply Buried Targets

The Pentagon has a new secret weapon to neutralize sites containing chemical or biological weapons: rocket balls. These are hollow spheres, made of rubberized rocket fuel; when ignited, they propel themselves around at random at high speed, bouncing off the walls and breaking through doors, turning the entire building into an inferno.

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Russian Submarine Accident Points to Navy's Shortcomings -- Fred Weir  -- Christian Science Monitor  -- November 10, 2008
Russia

An accident aboard a Russian nuclear attack submarine that killed at least 20 and injured 22 late Saturday, is the latest in a series of undersea tragedies that have struck the Russian Navy as it struggles to regain Soviet-era capacities.

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Israel Developing Nuke-Hunting Drone -- Noah Shachtman  -- Wired News  -- November 7, 2008
Iran

The Israeli military is working on "a high-fly­ing, long-endurance unmanned in­frared sensor" that can tell the difference between nuclear war­heads amid doz­ens of decoys sent to confound na­tional missile defenses and would mark the first use of an unmanned platform for nuclear warhead hunting.

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U.S. Election Sparks Calls for Nuclear Disarmament -- Global Security Newswire  -- November 4, 2008
Nuclear Proliferation

The approach of the next U.S. president has prompted calls from some prominent defense experts to work toward eliminating the nuclear arsenals held by the United States and other nations.

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Election Breathes New Life into Nuclear Debate -- Susan Cornwell  -- Reuters  -- November 3, 2008
Nuclear Proliferation

In advance of the election, some of Washington's most influential national security thinkers have argued for a dramatic shift in U.S. policy, to actively pursue the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons from the Earth.

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