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August 16, 2010
In a new blog posting for The National Review Online, NPEC's executive director criticizes a State Department proposed change to export control regulations that would enable citizens of unfriendly countries, such as Iran, China, and Syria, greater access to U.S. controlled defense technology overseas than they would if they worked for defense firms operating in the States.
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August 10, 2010
On a radio program for KCRW, NPEC's executive director questions how the Administration can push for nuclear cooperation with Vietnam if the deal undermines the model set by a previous cooperative agreement with the UAE. An Associated Press piece by Foster Klug cites similar NPEC analysis and references The Wall Street Journal, which originally broke the story, in which NPEC's executive director explains that the Vietnam deal threatens to undermine America's efforts to curb the global spread of nuclear fuel-making. The Guardian and Global Security Newswire also cites this NPEC analysis.
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August 5, 2010
In a new National Review Online posting, NPEC's executive director argues that the U.S. needs to condition foreign firms access to the U.S. market and nuclear business upon their willingness to support its nonproliferation goals.
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August 3, 2010
NPEC's executive director challenges the idea that new laser-based enrichment technology can provide a timely warning of covert nuclear activities in a new Global Security Newswire article.
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August 11, 2010
In a new National Review Online piece, "America's Nuclear Vietnam," NPEC's executive director argues that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's endorsement of a nuclear deal with Vietnam suggests that the Obama Administration is backing off U.S. efforts to get states that lack nuclear weapons to foreswear making nuclear fuel -- a process that could bring them within weeks or months of acquiring nuclear weapons.
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August 4, 2010
The Policy Review publishes "The High and Hidden Costs of Nuclear Power" in which NPEC's executive director draws connections between nuclear power economics and proliferation. For a more detailed analysis of this subject, see Nuclear Power, Energy Markets, and Proliferation."
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July 20, 2010
In a recent letter to Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), national-security experts warn that his hold on the American Medical Isotope Production Act, which calls for the steady elimination of "highly enriched" uranium exports, sends the wrong signal to foreign manufactures who utilize this bomb-grade material.
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July 15, 2010
NPEC co-signed a letter along with the National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Marshall Institute which urges the leadership of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Energy and Water Development not to give any additional loan guarantee authority to the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program in the FY 2011 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill.
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August 4, 2010
The New York Times ("Arms-Treaty Vote Delayed in Senate") and Global Security Newswire cite NPEC's executive director that the Obama administration will have to deal more directly with Republican concerns to get New START ratified.
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July 27, 2010
In a blog posting for the National Review Online, NPEC's executive director asserts that critics of the New START treaty need to get on with the business of identifying the key amendments, reservations, understandings, and declarations, if any, they think the Senate should consider while its supporters need to stop pushing for instant ratification and allow access to information that both sides need to understand the treaty's full implications. In a follow up piece, "New START: Don't Shake the Tree If the Fruit Ain't Ripe," he compares previous arms control treaty ratification efforts with New START and concludes that even with ratification as late as February, it would be relatively quick. In addition, he reiterates that in order to get overwhelming Senate support, the treaty's negotiating record should be released in classified form. This last point was also highlighted in a recent article published by The Christian Science Monitor.
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July 22, 2010
The Council on Foreign Relations has published a debate on the New START Treaty in which NPEC's executive director argues that unless more details from the negotations between U.S. and Russian officials are known, it will remain difficult to determine if New START is beneficial.
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July 19, 2010
In this study, Steve Lukasik, former director of the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, assesses the potential of emerging, highly precise conventional military technologies to accomplish the missions currently assigned to nuclear weapons.
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July 19, 2010
NPEC's executive director explains why rushing to ratify the New START Treaty would forgo a critical opportunity to draw the administration out on what America's arms control agenda and strategic weapons policies are and to advise the White House on what they ought to be. The video of this Heritage-hosted lecture can be viewed here. Global Security Newswire (click here) covered the event and focused on the obstacles that the U.S. faces in reaching more arms control agreements with Russia.
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August 26, 2010
In a major, fresh analysis of the Russian military literature, Dr. Jacob Kipp, former Deputy Director, US Army School of Advanced Military Studies, argues that how Russia chooses to cope with the strategic challenges China poses, rather than any developments regarding NATO, the Balkans, or Central Asia, will shape the kinds of theater and strategic military capabilities Russia will develop or agree to restrain.
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August 4, 2010
The Washington Times recently published three articles , on May 13th, June 30th and July 22nd citing NPEC's analysis of the effect China's sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan has on the future of the NSG. The Washington Times quotes NPEC's executive director as noting that ultimately the U.S. will relent, but that it remains unclear what the White House will ask for in exchange for doing so. The Christian Science Monitor and Global Security Newswire ran similar stories quoting this evaluation as well.
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April 28, 2010
NPEC reassesses the latest reports on the threat of Pakistani nuclear terrorism in its new book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk, which was introduced at a joint event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and NPEC, "The Other Nuclear Threat: Avoiding War in South Asia."
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June 28, 2010
Richard L. Russell details the growing nuclear aspirations of a number of Middle Eastern states in a National Defense University's Joint Forces Quarterly article that reflects research he did for NPEC.
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June 2, 2010
Greg Jones penned a new analysis for NPEC in the wake of the release of the latest IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program, and finds that Tehran is very near to enriching enough weapons grade uranium to make a bomb. In his weekly Global View column for The Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens also cited this analysis.
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April 27, 2010
In a new analysis for NPEC, Greg Jones examines recent estimates from the Defense Intelligence Agency that Iran is 3 to 5 years from getting a bomb and concludes that despite these optimistic U.S. predictions, Tehran has the capacity to enrich enough uranium for a bomb in seven months or less.
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April 14, 2010
Highlighting Greg Jones' recent analysis, NPEC's executive director detailed how Iran could conceivably get a bomb in 2010, and critiqued analyses that suggest they're years away.
Briefs of Import from Outside NPEC
News, studies and analysis from around the web.
Bloomberg details in "India Risks Nuclear Isolation With Break From Chernobyl Accord", why India's newly passed nuclear accident liability law will keep American nuclear reactor vendors out of India.
To read a transcript from comments that the State Department spokesman made, click here.
France's flagship domestic commercial power reactor project, Flamanville- 3 EPR, is now officially running $2 billion over budget and two years behind schedule. EDF, which is running the project also announced it's net profits fell 47% due to nonperforming investments in North American nuclear projects
The Jordan Times quotes Jordan's atomic energy commission chairman as saying that "a sustainable funding scheme" will be a major consideration in his country's selection between a Russian, Canadian, and French bid to build the country’s first nuclear power plant.
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services announces that it has lowered AREVA's long- and short term corporate credit ratings to 'BBB+/A-2' from 'A/A-1.' Analysts note that profitability will remain weak, citing, in particular, an additional provision of 400 million euros that it took for cost overruns at the Olkiluto 3 reactor project in Finland.
In this NDU-commissioned slideshow, Uzi Rubin highlightes the development of missiles in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and Turkey and the missile defenses that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have adopted in response to such threats.
Agence France-Presse reports that South Korea has developed a longer-range cruise missile capable of hitting nuclear or military sites in North Korea.
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