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Subs Threaten Rest of Shipbuilding Budget
On the radar: Boomer budget bulge; Force-feeding missile defense; More sanctions; Palmetto plutonium pork; Hanford leaks; ICBM wing shortcomings; and Oak Ridge activists face up to 20-years in prison.   Read more »
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Posted on May 9, 2013
Air Force Benches 17 ICBM Officers After Failed Inspection
  On the radar: Failures and indiscipline; Small stockpile, huge expense; An open letter on missile defense; President Park in Washington; North Korea’s missile mockups; France’s arsenal and defense spending; and Rodman asks for a solid.   Read more »
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Posted on May 8, 2013
North Korea Pauses Provocations as Isolation Increases
  On the radar: China signals displeasure; North Korea stands down missiles; Schumer wants missile defense pork; Enough for 100,000 warheads; Pre-launch missile defense; Rumors of nonproliferation’s death; and 32-years of anti-nuclear protest.   Read more »
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Posted on May 7, 2013
Spending Fight Brewing on Controversial Missile Defense Idea
  On the radar: Toehold for a $25 billion program; Nukes swallowing UK military budgets; Nuke pressure on shipbuilding; North Korea finishing reactor; Russia has 4,500 warheads; Japan increasing production of weapons-usable plutonium; and What if it was a dirty bomb?   Read more »
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Posted on May 2, 2013
Making the Grade on Nonproliferation
  On the radar: Nuclear report card; South Korean PM opposes redeployment; BMD “extraordinarily expensive”; Dempsey in China; CTBT verifiable; and CIA documents on China’s nuclear assistance to Pakistan.   Read more »
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Posted on April 25, 2013
China’s Interests in Denuclearizing North Korea
On the radar: Corker on China and DPRK; CRS on CGPS; BMD not a threat, says Rogozin; Historical context on N Korea tensions; and Richard Lugar, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Read more »
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Posted on April 16, 2013
Missile Defenses Complicating Strategic Stability in East Asia
  On the radar: China, North Korea, and missile defense; Reading the N. Korean missile threat; Sec. Kerry on the crisis; Air Force seeks new nuclear capability; a Nonfunctioning, expensive solution; N. Korean missile part recovered; and Life in the Atomic City.   Read more »
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Posted on April 15, 2013
Escalation and Rhetoric on the Korean Peninsula
  On the radar: Calming the crisis; Exchanging threats; How wars begin; New strategy for Iran; New START data; View from Tehran; Modernizing US-European security; and the South Asian arms race.   Read more »
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Posted on April 4, 2013
Positive Signals from Moscow in Nuclear Talks
On the radar: Productive talks; India and the suppliers; Kyl on spending; Guam out of range; Demolishing silos; Some hot property in Florida, the Atomic heart; and Go Hoosiers!   Read more »
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Posted on March 22, 2013
Alaskan Folly
We've doubled down on a defense that doesn't work against missiles that don't exist. Read more »
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Posted by Joe Cirincione on March 21, 2013
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