On the radar: Reactor fuel for halting enrichment; Plutonium facility on shaky ground; Ajad’s speech; A hotline to Iran; Updating a bomb for North Korea; Yellowcake in Libya; Steps toward the CTBT; Gen. Hayden on Syria; and Drunken fishermen ram submarine.
On the radar: Pyongyang wants to talk; Sigal on how to talk with Pyongyang ; Iranian bomb “neither imminent nor inevitable”; Fewer requirements, fewer warheads; A-jad speaks; Fresh ISIS reports on Iran; Myanmar too broke for nukes; and U.K. suspected of possessing 225 nuclear warheads.
On the radar: POTUS at UNGA; Adm. Mullen talks dyad; Triad “outlived its usefulness”; Hikers headed home; Russian reactions to faulty missile defenses; Sestak on the military option; Adm. Mullen calls for a line to Iran; Not so fast on Iran breakout; and loading a B-52 in 30 hours or less.
On the radar: Gov. Richardson on talking with the North; Sec. Donley talks bomber, budgets; Turkey and BMD politics; A call for U.S. ratification of CTBT; Guinea just ratified; The problems with missile defense; and a Proposal for a mil-mil hotline with Iran.
On the radar: Policies with Iran; Polling on Iran; “Produce to reduce?”; Toward Korea talks; Heavy analysis on Russia’s ICBM decision; NYT calls for sanctions round 5; Perkovich on Pakistan; and a Bushehr through a diplomatic lens.
On the radar: Tehran lacks key materials, components; Neither underestimating nor over-hyping Iran; WH rolls out NATO missile plans (not costs); Welcome Philip Yun; Two urgent treaties; Miscounting our missiles; Scaled nuclear tests; Korean envoys to meet; and The trouble of jailing nuclear smugglers.
On the radar: State of play on missile defense; $700 billion in nuclear weapons spending; Iran rational, despite the rhetoric; Missile defense tug of war; Kyl/Kirk oppose cooperation with NATO allies; Seoul and nuclear weapons; Romney stumbles on Iran policy; and Farewell Naila.
On the radar: Expansive programs make for costly warheads; Science vs. rhetoric on Iran; Iran’s letter and P5 reactions; SM-3s into Romania; Joe talks nuclear safety; Ratifying CTBT; cooperation and the reset; and Putin hunts tiger, holds puppy.