Nuke Negotiator: Time to Ratify Test Ban Treaty — Matthew D. LaPlante —Salt Lake Tribune — Oct 21, 2009
Linton Brooks former administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and a longtime detractor of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, decided the United States should finally join 150 other nations that have ratified the accord because it would improve the U.S. standing to protest North Korean or Iranian nuclear tests. [More]
Jessica Mathews argues that the case against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has collapsed in the ten years since the U.S. Senate last rejected it in 1999. [More]
Iran Brings Urgency to U.S.'s Need to Ratify Nuclear-Test Treaty — Deepti Choubey —The Hill — Oct 19, 2009
The author argues that proliferation threats like Iran make U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty more urgent as it would give the major powers "another tool for impeding Irans nuclear ambitions." [More]
The high alert levels for U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear forces are more political statements carried over from the Cold War than military necessities for the 21st century, according to a new study from the East-West Institute. [More]
U.S. Seeks to Keep Watching Russias Weapons — Thom Shanker and Peter Baker —New York Times — Oct 18, 2009
With a key arms control treaty (the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty or START) set to expire soon, the Obama administration is searching for ways to keep inspectors in Russia or else it risks losing American eyes on the worlds second most formidable nuclear weapons arsenal for the first time in decades. [More]
The author examines the growing effort to "hype the supposed menace of EMP (electro magnetic pulse) weapons" by a coalition of right wing groups, some pushing it as a justification for further investment into missile defense. [More]
Scientists from Stanford University have estimated how many different universes could have appeared as a result of the Big Bang. [More]
Researchers in China have successfully demonstrated a theory proposed earlier this year by creating an artificial black hole using metamaterials. [More]
The Pentagon said a giant "bunker buster" bomb will be ready within months, adding a powerful weapon to the US arsenal amid tensions over Iran's nuclear program. [More]
There are serious challenges ahead in mitigating space clutter now orbiting the Earth, problems that are exacerbated by the rise of small satellite launchings as well as using debris removal techniques that mimic anti-satellite systems. [More]