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Miguel Marín Bosch

Bosch was formerly Mexico's ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament and chaired the first year of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty negotiations.

Opinion
24 September 2013
Nuclear Weapons

Transparency: The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons?

Henrik SalanderArend J. MeerburgMiguel Marín BoschPaul MeyerZia Mian

If nuclear weapon states report openly on their arsenals, it could smooth the path to disarmament.

N.H. Ravindranath

Ravindranath is a professor at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

José R. Moreira

Moreira is a professor at the University of São Paulo's Institute of Energy and Environment. His areas of expertise include biofuels, energy efficiency, and emerging mitigation techniques for greenhouse gases.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
24 September 2013
Asia

The devil’s in the details

N.H. Ravindranath

The author writes that bioenergy's ability to meet energy needs, mitigate climate change, and avoid adverse effects on food production depends on factors such as the technology and feedstock used and the scale of production.

Roberto Bissio

Bissio is the executive director of Instituto del Tercer Mundo (Third World Institute), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization headquartered in Uruguay.

Analysis
20 September 2013
Special TopicsTechnology and Security
Americas

US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead

Mark Gubrud

The Defense Department's policy for autonomy in weapon systems may appear to reflect caution, but it allows the Pentagon to fund, test, buy, and use technology that could target and kill by machine decision.

Mark Gubrud

Gubrud is a postdoctoral research associate in the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Action, not arguments

Jaime Aguirre Gómez

Discussing humanitarian arguments in favor of disarmament, the author argues that now is not the time for more argumentation. Instead, countries that don't have nuclear weapons must exert strong, sustained pressure to disarm on nations that do have these weapons.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

الأفعال وليس المناقشات

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: AR
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Acciones, no palabras

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: ES
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

行动，而非论证

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: CH
Columnists
17 September 2013
BiosecurityNuclear Weapons
AmericasEurope/RussiaMiddle East

Would the United States ever actually use nuclear weapons?

Kingston Reif

What the Syria crisis tells us.

Columnists
17 September 2013
Nuclear Weapons
Americas

Most likely to succeed against nuclear weapons

Kennette Benedict

Who can be mobilized as a counterweight to the perpetuation of the nuclear arsenal?Workers in the nuclear weapons complex, doctors, independent scientists, and journalists all have direct interests in nuclear disarmament. 

Explain This
13 September 2013
BiosecurityTechnology and Security
Middle East

How to destroy chemical weapons

Paul F. Walker

Here are the three main methods that would likely be used to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, if the Assad regime follows through on its announced desire to join the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
12 September 2013
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

How to make the case

Siddharth Mallavarapu

Responding to a discussion on the ways in which a nuclear detonation would constitute a disaster for poor countries' development prospects, the author questions why so little attention has been devoted to nuclear renunciation.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
12 September 2013
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

الكيفية التي ندعم بها القضية

Siddharth Mallavarapu: AR
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
12 September 2013
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

Cómo presentar el caso

Siddharth Mallavarapu: ES
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
12 September 2013
AfricaAmericasAsiaEurope/RussiaMiddle East

如何论证

Siddharth Mallavarapu: CH
Book Review
11 September 2013
Climate ChangeNuclear Energy

A false fix for climate change

John Dudley Miller

An environmental activist’s e-book unpersuasively argues for 800 new nuclear power plants as the solution to climate change, making many of the same mistakes as the film Pandora’s Promise.

John Dudley Miller

Miller is a former nuclear engineering officer on US Navy submarines. A Kentucky native and Harvard graduate, he holds a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan.

Columnists
10 September 2013
Nuclear Weapons
AmericasEurope/Russia

An HEU milestone means a new challenge ahead

Fissile Materials Working Group

How will we track progress on nuclear security once removals are done?

Opinion
9 September 2013
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Fixing Fukushima’s water problem

Lake H. Barrett

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station needs a new plan for dealing with millions of gallons of radioactive water on its grounds. The plan should include better public outreach, improved cleanup processes and capacities, and, when radiation standards are met, a controlled release of water into the sea.

Lake H. Barrett

Lake H. Barrett is a retired nuclear engineer and was the director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Three Mile Island Cleanup Site Office from 1980 to 1984.

Columnists
6 September 2013
Biosecurity
AmericasMiddle East

Syria and the limits of realpolitik

Hugh Gusterson

The idea that intervention will make America safer is wrong-headed.

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