International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND DETERRENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
SPEAKER: SECRETARY ROBERT GATES, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008

http://carnegieendowment.org/files/1028 ... hecked.pdf

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 01 Nov 2008 01:42

Russia insists its nuclear arsenal is secure

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 01 Nov 2008 02:05

When nuclear sheriffs quarrel

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 01 Nov 2008 05:45

Silo fire casts another cloud over U.S. nukes

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 01 Nov 2008 22:09

Vietnam Ready To Go Nuclear

Vietnam is ready to make a decision to establish a nuclear power programme, following careful research, said Head of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute Vuong Huu Tan

Nuclear energy a must for the Kingdom

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 01 Nov 2008 22:33

Robert Gates shows nuclear impatience

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 02 Nov 2008 08:21

Gates lauds nuclear sub work

Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed the importance of Navy submarines armed with ballistic missiles as a deterrent against nuclear war Friday after touring one of the vessels ported in coastal Georgia.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 02 Nov 2008 17:26

Russia, Libya sign civil nuclear deal as Kadhafi visits

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 03 Nov 2008 00:16

Feds plan for new era in nuclear deterrence

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 03 Nov 2008 00:21

Areva team wins Yucca Mountain nuclear waste contract

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 03 Nov 2008 20:21

Jalili calls for a balance between nuclear rights and commitments

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 03 Nov 2008 20:26

Australia set to open up west to uranium mining

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 05 Nov 2008 03:32

IAEA to re-examine Japanese nuclear power plant

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 07 Nov 2008 03:42

UT gets grant to explore elimination of nuclear weapons testing

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 07 Nov 2008 03:43

Vietnam to build two nuclear power plants in Central Province

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 07 Nov 2008 03:51

Mozambique ratifies CTBT

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 07 Nov 2008 03:55

Ministry of Defence: The United Kingdom’s Future Nuclear Deterrent Capability

Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General
5 November 2008

http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_ ... 081115.pdf

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 08 Nov 2008 01:46

U.S. offers new proposals on nuclear arms reduction, missile defense to Russia

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 09 Nov 2008 03:54

Thousands in Germany protest nuclear transport

John Snow · Post by **John Snow** » 09 Nov 2008 07:19

An accident aboard a nuclear-powered Russian submarine has killed more than 20 people, Russian news agencies report.

CNN breakng news

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 09 Nov 2008 20:11

North Korea slows nuclear disablement: Kyodo

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 09 Nov 2008 21:32

Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Nov 2008 02:29

US nuclear sub enters Japanese territory 'without notice'

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Nov 2008 02:35

The Hyperion Power Module

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 11 Nov 2008 02:57

The List: Five Real Missions for 007

The mission: Infiltrate the nuclear weapons programs of India, Pakistan, and North Korea to determine which ones possess the hydrogen bomb.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 11 Nov 2008 08:07

Britan lifts n-exports ban on India

London: In a significant development, Britain on Monday said it has lifted the six-year-long ban on export of sensitive nuclear technology to India for civilian purpose. “Since March 2002, UK policy has been to refuse all licence applications for Trigger List items to India,” the foreign office minister, Mr Bill Rammell, said.

“That policy has now changed and we will now consider on a case by case basis licence applications for peaceful use of all items on the NSG Trigger List and NSG Dual-Use List when they are destined for IAEA safeguarded civil nuclear facilities in India,” he added.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 12 Nov 2008 02:08

California governor tours superlaser system

It is designed to focus 192 lasers at a single target the size of a pencil eraser to create a huge release of energy known as fusion ignition.

If successful, the National Ignition Facility will simulate the pressures and heat of a nuclear explosion, meaning scientists can study the performance and readiness of nuclear weapons without detonating a nuclear device.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 13 Nov 2008 03:35

North Korea: No sample-taking at nuclear site

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 14 Nov 2008 03:18

What to do with a vision of zero

Yet the problem for zero-boosters is that the lower you go, the trickier things get, argues Henry Sokolski of the Washington-based Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre. Crises may prove harder to manage when the nuclear gap between America and Russia and other potential contenders is not thousands, but hundreds

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 14 Nov 2008 05:08

The only verifiable way to ensure that the P-5 are shutting down their nuclear programs is when they shut down their "stewardship programs" under the CTBT, assuming that the CTBT is going to be verifiable too.

http://www.economist.com/world/internat ... d=12609825

As for more global treaty commitments, Mr Obama is expected to try to get Congress to ratify the test-ban (it refused in 1999). That could prod others, like China, to do likewise. He has also said he will not authorise the building of new nuclear weapons. That is music to disarmers’ ears. But there may eventually have to be a trade-off: ending testing in return for building some simpler, safer warheads (based on a previously tested design).

NPA Henry Sokolski is openly admitting that the CTBT stewardship program is key to the P-5 maintaining all their arsenals in the long term, while pretending that they are pushing for a nuke-free world.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9nw ... wD94CMPF80

If this facility is shutdown (along with similar facilities in P-5 states) when CTBT is ratified by US/China, then this "verifiable" stuff can be believed, else it is all a con job. The only thing "Verifiable" about such facilities remaining open is that the P-5 are not serious about disarmament by a long shot. if the P-5 insist on retaining capabilities that will keep nuclear weapons in good shape, that would directly contradicts any claims made by H. Kissinger et. al. (and repeated by Indian strategic elites) that the US is serious about real global disarmament. I mean, why retain capabilities to keep nuclear weapons in good shape if there is a sincere effort towards global disarmament? The US or China would never ratify the CTBT without retaining such capabilities. And if the stewardship clause is allowed for the P-5, then obviously the CTBT is at best irrelevant to global nuclear disarmament, i.e., CTBT does not really square with this alleged goal of "global nuclear disarmament". So what's up with this ruckus about eminent leading lights in the USA waxing eloquent on global nuclear disarmament, if the P-5 are still insincere about that notion?

A google search with "Nunn Kissinger Nuclear" keywords will reveal a mountain of articles praising the original article

http://www.2020visioncampaign.org/pages ... ar_Weapons

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 15 Nov 2008 21:56

Talks yield no new sanctions against Iran's nuclear program

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 16 Nov 2008 04:56

Report suggests Obama press Israel over nuclear program

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 16 Nov 2008 21:58

Cameco May Suspend Uranium Processing Amid Dispute