Secret Nuclear Assurance May 4, 2006
The administration has a new plan: as it prepares for production of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) to replace most of the nuclear warheads in the operational stockpile, it will…
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Chinese Nuclear Weapons Profiled May 1, 2006
The Chinese nuclear stockpile appears to be only half as big as previously thought, according to a new overview published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Up…
Read moreNew Uranium Enrichment Calculator April 13, 2006
Our ace FAS researcher, Lucas Royland, has developed a simple calculator that allows prediction of when Iran will first have enough highly enriched uranium to build a simple…
Read moreNon-Nuclear Test Will Simulate Nuclear Weapon Strike April 3, 2006
Update (February 22, 2007): DTRA announces that Divine Strake has been canceled. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) today confirmed to FAS that the upcoming Divine Strake test widely…
Read moreWill The Right Nuclear Policy Please Stand Up! March 29, 2006
Will the New Triad of nuclear and non-nuclear capabilities reduce or increase the role of U.S. nuclear weapons? To get an answer to that question I went to a…
Read moreSenate To Hold Long-Overdue Hearing on New Global Strike Mission March 27, 2006
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 29th, on the Pentagon’s new offensive Global Strike mission. The Committee has asked the following officials to…
Read moreReport Shows Prominence of Nuclear Weapons in Global Strike Mission March 15, 2006
Nuclear weapons are surprisingly prominent in the Pentagon’s new offensive Global Strike mission, according to the new FAS report Global Strike: A Chronology of the Pentagon’s New Offensive Strike…
Read moreNuclear Weapons Reassert Russian Might, Sort Of February 24, 2006
A new review of Russian nuclear forces published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says that the Kremlin appears to be attempting to reassert its nuclear strength after years…
Read moreElusive Chinese Submarine Cave Spotted February 16, 2006
A long-rumored but never before seen Chinese underground submarine base is shown for the first time in a new article written by analysts from the Federation of American Scientists and…
Read moreNavy Personnel Ordered Not To Discuss Public Nuclear Policy February 8, 2006
The US Chief of Naval Operations has publicly issued an Instruction that orders US Navy personnel not to tell anyone that US warships do not carry nuclear weapons. Yet the…
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