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Israel's nuclear weapons stand as one of the world's best known secrets. These weapons, although they do not officially exist, play a role in many of the diplomatic challenges with Iran and in the Middle East. Following is news, analysis and opinion from Ploughshares Fund staff, grantees and guests on the ongoing struggle to deal with nuclear weapons in Israel.
Bomber Fleet to Get New Nuclear Cruise Missile
On the radar: Sanctions and behavior; New guided nuclear bomb; China’s posture paper; and Grading the nonproliferation regime.   Read more »
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Posted on April 22, 2013
Israeli Intelligence: Iran’s Nuclear Program Slowing
  On the radar: No weapon before 2015-2016; Big trouble in little everywhere; Hagel and the nuclear mainstream; Samore to Harvard; Space monkey; Drell awarded; and Google Maps in Pyongyang.   Read more »
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Posted on January 29, 2013
The Pentagon’s New Precision-Guided, Nuclear Budget Buster
  On the radar: High accuracy, low yield, huge budget; Shoddy science; Decisions for the 2nd term; “Armageddon on a Budget”; Nukes and the NDAA; Japan’s plutonium buildup; Israeli BMD; and Mousavian on a grand bargain.   Read more »
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Posted on November 29, 2012
The Triad: Costs, Schedules and Justifications
On the radar: SSBN(X) update; Debating the other two legs of the triad; Complex failures; Red line tracking; 50th time’s the charm; Proliferation and the private sector; and Using Large Hadron Collider tech to thwart nuclear smugglers. Read more »
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Posted on November 2, 2012
Rightsize the Nuclear Budget, Strengthen National Security
On the radar: CAP on nuke budget savings; Barak: Iran hit “pause”; Sandy versus nuke costs; Debating the military option; Unofficial Iran talks; Strikes against Sudan in question; Questioning strategic stability; Still waiting on fusion; and Scary nuclear stories. Read more »
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Posted on October 31, 2012
Countering Inaccuracies in Iran Reporting
  On the radar: Detecting an Iranian breakout; Inspector General on mismanagement at DOE; Iran’s negotiating strategy; Securing China’s nukes; US-Israel war games; Russia’s “new” ICBM; and Ike on the military option.   Read more »
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Posted on October 25, 2012
A Fact-Based Discussion of Options with Iran
  On the radar: Pickering, Zinni, and Walsh; P5+1 proposal for Iran in the works; the Uncertain future of Nunn-Lugar; Blown red lines; the Bombs we left behind; Sen. Alexander on Y-12 security; and the fascinating, harmful world of Plutonium.   Read more »
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Posted on October 12, 2012
How the U.S. Military Views an Israeli Strike
  On the radar: They don’t want war and especially don’t want Israel to start it; Expert views on bibi’s red line; the Human costs of strikes on Iran; Laser enrichment license; a Legal perspective; and the Missile Next Door.   Read more »
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Posted on September 28, 2012
Costs and Benefits: The Iran Project
A quick scan of daily headlines will prove that there has been no shortage of debate over Iran’s nuclear program. The trouble is, the debate thus far has been “fact-free, partisan, and not very nuanced,” as MIT professor Jim Walsh commented yesterday at the launch of a new report from The Iran Project. Read more »
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Posted by Leah Fae Cochran on September 14, 2012
Israel, Bill Luers, Chuck Hagel, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jim Walsh, Joe Sestak, Military Strikes, Nuclear proliferation, Thomas Pickering, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Iran
Dem Platform Commits to Reducing Stockpiles, Stopping Spread of Nuclear Weapons
On the radar: The nuke platform; For the last time, U.S. is modernizing; No information on Israeli nukes; Buy before you fly; Small signs of reform in DPRK; IAEA Iran report card; and the Shifting timeline for Russia’s new ICBM.   Read more »
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Posted on September 4, 2012