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New Bill to Bring Nunn-Lugar Into Next Generation
  On the radar: Nunn-Lugar 2.0; Uranium plant costs could double; Shipbuilding plan a “fantasy”; Nuclear security pacts clear House; Making amends; and Measuring Moore.   Read more »
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Posted on May 22, 2013
Nuclear Strategy, Spending on Autopilot
  On the radar: Reality vs rhetoric on nuclear spending; IAEA report preview; Detensioning; Minuteman test; and Dogtagging or tattooing children.   Read more »
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Posted on May 21, 2013
Pakistan’s PM, Politics, and Prospects
  On the radar: Nawaz Sharif; Dealing with loose nukes; More missile launches; Obama’s opportunities for reductions; New pork for New York; Polling proliferation; and Nuke bunker turned into bat cave.   Read more »
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Posted on May 20, 2013
Missile Mission Malaise
  On the radar: Missiles lacking plausible mission; $10 billion nuclear budget buster; “Iran After the Bomb”; Sub pounding budgets; Debating Navy’s requirement; Nawaz Sharif’s pivot; and When military exercises stop being polite and start getting real.   Read more »
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Posted on May 17, 2013
Senate Pushing the Pressure Track on Iran
  On the radar: Pressure track speeds along; Iranian politics; Ankara’s atomic ambitions; Engaging China on North Korea; Aegis test; and AU celebrates 50th anniversary.   Read more »
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Posted on May 16, 2013
Political Moxie and Plutonium Pork
  On the radar: The politics of staving off demise of MOX; Subs eating shipbuilding funds; Bomb, coerce, or contain; North Korea sanctions update; Sanctions testimonies; and a Botched Soviet space laser.   Read more »
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Posted on May 15, 2013
What a Containment Strategy for Iran Could Look Like
  On the radar: Containment possible, not preferred; Chinese nuclear developments; Embargo economics; Missileer on the readiness shortfall; Casualties of a nuclear exchange; and House looks to block New START.   Read more »
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Posted on May 14, 2013
Finding Budget Savings from the Nuclear Force
  On the radar: “Nuclear force economies”; Subs, budgets and requirements in flux; Missileer malaise; East Coast site evaluations; Upcoming IAEA talks; and Dennis the Menace to return to North Korea.   Read more »
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Posted on May 13, 2013
Senator Blocking Cabinet Nominee Over Funds for Failing Plutonium Plant
  On the radar: Carolina pork holder; Gen. Kehler on Minot; Perspective on no first use; Nominations; New START by 2017; B-61 undermining/underpinning triad; and North Korean traffic cop gets state’s highest award.   Read more »
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Posted on May 10, 2013
Subs Threaten Rest of Shipbuilding Budget
On the radar: Boomer budget bulge; Force-feeding missile defense; More sanctions; Palmetto plutonium pork; Hanford leaks; ICBM wing shortcomings; and Oak Ridge activists face up to 20-years in prison.   Read more »
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Posted on May 9, 2013