Nuclear Security
Whither Nuclear Weapons? NATO Takes Up the Challenge
May 17, 2012
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit starts on Sunday, May 20, in Chicago. The issues to be addressed at the summit are broad and include the war in Afghanistan, the future of alliance operations such as last year’s campaign in Libya and nuclear weapons policies. Attempts to move beyond obsolete Cold War deployments, and [...]
What to Expect From Iran Negotiations
April 11, 2012
On April 13, Iran will begin talks about its nuclear program with the U.S. and five other major powers. Those negotiations are high stakes, but expectations for a quick solution are low, even as the contours of a possible deal are becoming clear. Experts expect this meeting to begin a long process that will take [...]
Addressing Real Geopolitical Threats: The Prague Agenda, Three Years Later
April 4, 2012
Tomorrow marks three years since President Obama laid out his vision for combatting the most nightmarish threat to American security – a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Since then, the administration has led in concluding the New START Treaty with Russia and co-sponsoring two Nuclear Security Summits, which together have led to the [...]
21st Century Nuclear Security
March 26, 2012
Today in Seoul ahead of the second Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama outlined his administration’s vision and accomplishments on nuclear security. Keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists – eliminating highly enriched uranium from six countries since 2010 – is one part of a broader agenda to make the U.S. a leader in [...]
Mr. Obama Goes to Korea
March 22, 2012
President Obama arrives in South Korea this weekend ahead of the follow-on meeting to the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit. Just miles from one of the world’s tensest nuclear standoffs, President Obama will highlight his strong relationship with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak. The two are expected to highlight a free-trade accord that took effect [...]
Nuclear Weapons policy: It’s 2012, not 1992
March 20, 2012
By Heather Hurlburt, The Hill’s Congress Blog, March 20, 2012
Considering Reductions to the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
March 15, 2012
The Obama administration is in the midst of a once-in-a-decade study of the nuclear arsenal and nuclear war plans, which will explore how to implement the results of its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review. As the New York Times editorial board writes, “This is President Obama’s opportunity to reshape the post-cold-war world to make it fundamentally [...]
North Korea: Small Step in a Big Picture
March 1, 2012
This week’s diplomatic deal with North Korea for a suspension of nuclear activity and the return of inspectors is another small but significant piece of a broad, successful agenda to safeguard nuclear materials and stop the spread and threat of nuclear weapons – an agenda that the Obama administration has made a key national security [...]
Taking Another Look at the Nuclear Arsenal
February 21, 2012
As a bipartisan majority of living secretaries of defense and state as well as national security advisers encourages the president to make another round of cuts in our nuclear arsenal, the White House has tasked the Pentagon with a nuclear posture review of the kind carried out by its predecessors. Reports indicate that the Pentagon [...]
New START to Enter Into Force
February 2, 2011
President Obama formally signed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty this morning, after the Senate gave bipartisan approval to the accord in December. On Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will bring the treaty into force: reinstating a stringent verification regime of inspections and data exchanges after a yearlong lapse. The completion of New START marks a significant accomplishment and offers an opportunity for the U.S. and its partners to build upon this success. The nuclear security agenda has already made the U.S. and its allies safer and stronger-its next steps to limit the spread and production of nuclear material, and further reduce weapons, deserve the same bipartisan support.
