Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union
Occasional Paper #6: Offering pragmatic guidance for the Bush administration on key nonproliferation issues regarding U.S. foreign relations, nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism, and organizing the U.S. government. It outlines measures to help defend the United States and construct a safer world.
Policymakers, non-governmental analysts, and journalists met for the workshop in Washington, DC.
Approaches and positions towards tactical nuclear weapons will need rethinking and reformulation.
Before sinking, did the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk collide with another submarine or was it an explosion onboard?
Inability to save 118 sailors from the Kursk highlights multiple problems facing Russia’s nuclear fleet.
Chief of the General Staff Anatoliy Kvashnin proposals for a radical reduction of Russia’s land-based strategic missiles lose out to Putin’s preference for caution.
The sinking of the Komsomolets is only one in a series of accidents involving the Soviet fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and ships.
Many states think not enough attention is given to the Resolution on the Middle East, the focus for some Arab states in the upcoming Review Conference.
