On the radar: Opportunity to break the impasse; Moscow’s stonewalling; Israel’s yellowcake buy; Re-classifying nuke numbers; HEU out of Hanoi; NPT turns 45; and “Could Nuclear Weapons Save the Elephants?”
On the radar: New agency, interim options and permanent solutions; Reductions as leverage; Security Summit progress; the Independent deterrent, 1952-present; engaging Iran’s new president; and Good housekeeping as civil defense.
On the radar: Golden warhead gets dinged; Saving GTRI; Securing nuclear material; Amano on nuclear security; and Matthew Broderick’s thermonuclear war hardware now for sale.
On the radar: A measured approach from Berlin; Immobilizing plutonium; Park, party of six; APS-CSIS treaty workshop; Advancing verification; Viewing Rouhani; and the “Atomic Annie” nuclear cannon.
On the radar: South Carolina’s jobs program; Scaling back the B61; Senate to boost nonpro; Ross seeks diplomatic endgame; Internship opportunity; North Korea tunneling; and Sweeping nuclear blast contamination under a concrete rug.
On the radar: How MOX got this bad; Assessing Iron Dome; Elimination not armageddon; New STRATCOM commander; and What happens when wildfires hit radioactive forests?
On the radar: The speech; The fact sheets; Reactions from the wonks, the supporters and the opponents; Welcome Mary Lloyd Estrin; Assessing Iran’s new president; $10+ billion warheads becoming the norm; MOX breeding proliferation; and Iran’s new president gets The Onion treatment.
On the radar: Setting up missile defense scrum in Congress; After Iran’s election; Tennessee’s $10 billion nuclear disaster; the Bomb of yesteryear; Hadley, Lieberman and Steinberg on Iran; and Kim Jong-il’s sushi chef.