Pentagon Doubles Plan For New Warheads July 27, 2006
The Pentagon is considering acquiring up to four types of Reliable Replacement Warheads (RRW), twice as many as reported so far, according to an overview discovered by the Federation…
Read moreNuclear Weapons
British Parliament Report Criticizes Government Refusal to Participate in Nuclear Deterrent Inquiry June 30, 2006
Although the British government has promised a full and open public debate about the future of Britain’s nuclear deterrent, it has so far failed to explain what decisions need to…
Read moreEffort Underway in European Parliament Against US Nuclear Weapons in Europe June 23, 2006
A Written Declaration presented in the European Parliament calls for the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Europe by the end of 2006. The Declaration has until December 10…
Read moreUS Air Force Publishes New Missile Threat Assessment June 15, 2006
The Air Force has published a new report about the threat from ballistic and cruise missiles. The new report, Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, presents the Air Force National Air…
Read moreNATO Nuclear Policy at Odds with Public Opinion June 9, 2006
Almost 70 percent of people in European countries that currently store U.S. nuclear weapons want a Europe free of nuclear weapons, according to an opinion poll published by Greenpeace…
Read moreTurkish Parliament Debates US Nuclear Weapons At Incirlik Air Base June 7, 2006
Deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey was brought up in a debate in the Turkish Parliament today by Turkey’s former Ambassador to the United States, Sukru Elekdag. According to…
Read moreWMD Commission Seeks to Revive Disarmament June 1, 2006
In a whopper 231-page report published today, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission presented 60 specific recommendations for how to move the nonproliferation and disarmament agenda forward.
Read moreNNSA Walking a Fine Line on Divine Strake May 31, 2006
Update (February 22, 2007): DTRA announces that Divine Strake has been canceled. In a surprising move, the National Nuclear Security Administration last week withdrew (!) its Finding of No…
Read moreMake Trident Conventional May 30, 2006
The week before last, Harold Brown and James Schlesinger argued in an op-ed in the Washington Post that the United States should arm some of the ballistic missiles on…
Read moreChinese Military Power: Can We Avoid Cold War? May 24, 2006
The Pentagon yesterday released its annual warning of the growing Chinese military threat. This year’s version continues the refrain from previous years and reiterates the conclusion from the recent…
Read more