Analysis

Major Conventional Terrorist Incidents: 1980s to 2000

List of significant conventional terrorist incidents from 1980-2000 seeks to provide context for the terrorist attacks conducted on September 11, 2001.

Controversy Nuclear Testing

Renewed US-Russian Controversy over Nuclear Testing

Increased transparency measures are needed of both countries.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, WikiMedia Commons

Bulgaria Reaffirms Plan to Destroy SS-23 Missiles

A rejection of Bulgaria’s bid to join NATO might create anti-Western sentiments.

Nuclear Regionalism in the Russian Far East

The entire area has many difficulties in common but the way each deals with them varies.

Russian Shipping Damaged Fuel

Russian Military Violates Nuclear Safety by Shipping Damaged Fuel

Military neglects safety & accounting procedures of naval spent nuclear fuel.

Russia Announces Plans to Participate in Research on Vozrozhdeniye Island

Research on a Soviet-era biological weapons test site in the Aral Sea.

Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), US Navy

Greater Attention Pledged to Russian Triad’s Naval Leg

An announcement was given to procure 40 sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).

Russian Nerpa Submarine, WikiMedia Commons

Russia to Lease Two Nuclear Submarines to India

The leased submarines are expected to be armed with Club-S missiles.

Fissile Material Trafficking in the Newly Independent States (NIS) 1991-2001

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been frequent reports of illicit trafficking in fissile materials from the Newly Independent States (NIS).

The Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Weapons Materials and Technologies to State and Sub-State Actors

November 7, 2001 Jonathan Tucker Testimony by Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D. Director, Chemical & Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program Center for Nonproliferation Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies Washington, D.C. Office before the Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs November 7, 2001, 2:30 p.m. Room 342, […]