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Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 September 2013
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التفجيرات النووية: توقع حدوث كارثة

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Nate Sans

Sans is a senior at Middlebury College in Vermont, majoring in political science with a minor in the Russian language.

Voices of Tomorrow
3 September 2013
Nuclear Weapons
AmericasMiddle East

Why the United States should redesign its nuclear submarines

Nate Sans

If the United States is serious about nonproliferation, it needs to set a good example by operating submarines without highly enriched uranium.

1 September 2013
Interview

Siegfried S. Hecker: The story of Plutonium Mountain

In this interview, former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried S. Hecker details one of the world’s great nonproliferation stories—the effort to secure the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.

1 September 2013
Features

Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima

Charles Perrow

Governments and the nuclear power industry have a strong interest in playing down the harmful effects of radiation from atomic weapons and nuclear power plants.

1 September 2013

The misunderstood acronym: Why cyber weapons aren't WMD

Joel Carr

As of now, the author writes, there is no evidence to support a claim that cyber weapons meet the legal and historical definitions of weapons of mass destruction.

1 September 2013

The code not taken: China, the United States, and the future of cyber espionage

Adam Segal

Both China and the United States have a common interest in protecting national infrastructure from third-party attacks, but neither appears willing to give up cyber espionage.

1 September 2013

From bombs to bytes: Can our nuclear history inform our cyber future?

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

In this essay, the author argues that cyber war does not pose the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons do. 

1 September 2013
Features

Nanotechnology in Japan: A route to energy security after Fukushima?

Hitoshi NasuThomas Faunce

In post-Fukushima Japan, the authors review the recent shift in the nation's Japan’s nanotechnology policy and regulation, analyzing policy documents and government guidelines as well as interviews with prominent scientists and government officials.

1 September 2013
Features

Easing sanctions on Iran might someday be necessary--but it won't be easy

Navid HassibiTom Sauer

Reviewing decades of sanctions on Iran, the authors write that a diplomatic resolution should be the approach to resolving the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program.

1 September 2013
Features

Easing sanctions on Iran might someday be necessary—but it won't be easy

Navid HassibiTom Sauer

Reviewing decades of sanctions on Iran, the authors write that a diplomatic resolution should be the approach to resolving the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. 

1 September 2013

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 69 Issue 5

1 September 2013

Who controls cyberspace?

Nazli ChoucriDavid D. Clark

As the international system and the empowered non-state groups and individuals of cyberspace shape one another, the potential collisions of law, policy, and the practice of governance have barely even been identified—it it time that the international community begin to understand how and where c

1 September 2013
The Cyber Issue

Eyes wide shut: The growing threat of cyber attacks on industrial control systems

Joel F. Brenner

Despite a series of well-publicized cyber attacks in recent years, few companies have taken the steps necessary to isolate industrial control systems and sensitive information, and to limit the damage an attack can inflict. 

1 September 2013
Nuclear notebook

Global nuclear weapons inventories, 1945-2013

Hans M. KristensenRobert S. Norris

The authors calculate that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and the Soviet Union and Russia.

Oliver Meier

Meier is an associate at the International Security Division of the German Institute for In

Opinion
30 August 2013
Biosecurity
Middle East

Syria: A defining moment for chemical weapons?

Oliver Meier

How the international community can decrease the likelihood of a chemical weapons comeback. 

Columnists
29 August 2013
Nuclear Energy
Americas

Duck and cover

Dawn Stover

The evacuation plans governments draw up in case of a nuclear accident or attack may not work.

Cameron Reed

Reed is the Charles A. Dana professor of physics at Alma College in Michigan.

Book Review
28 August 2013
Nuclear Weapons
Americas

A bright shining life

Cameron Reed

A review of Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk.

Slideshow
26 August 2013

The chemical weapons of Syria

Charles P. Blair
Opinion
23 August 2013
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Thinking outside Fukushima

Charles D. Ferguson

The time is now for international expertise. 

Charles D. Ferguson

Ferguson, president of the Federation of American Scientists, is the author of Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know and is co-cha

Analysis
22 August 2013
BiosecurityTechnology and Security
Middle East

The suspected Syrian chemical attacks: What now?

Bulletin Staff

Chemical weapons and national security experts assess the situation in Syria and suggest ways in which the United States and the international community might proceed, in light of what would—if proven true—be the most extensive use of chemical weapons in the Syrian uprising.

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Analysis
20 August 2013
Nuclear WeaponsTechnology and Security
AmericasAsiaEurope/Russia

Into thin air: The story of Plutonium Mountain

Bulletin Staff

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker details one of the world’s great nonproliferation stories—the effort to secure the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.

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