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Missile Mission Malaise
  On the radar: Missiles lacking plausible mission; $10 billion nuclear budget buster; “Iran After the Bomb”; Sub pounding budgets; Debating Navy’s requirement; Nawaz Sharif’s pivot; and When military exercises stop being polite and start getting real.   Read more »
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Posted on May 17, 2013
Political Moxie and Plutonium Pork
  On the radar: The politics of staving off demise of MOX; Subs eating shipbuilding funds; Bomb, coerce, or contain; North Korea sanctions update; Sanctions testimonies; and a Botched Soviet space laser.   Read more »
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Posted on May 15, 2013
Senator Blocking Cabinet Nominee Over Funds for Failing Plutonium Plant
  On the radar: Carolina pork holder; Gen. Kehler on Minot; Perspective on no first use; Nominations; New START by 2017; B-61 undermining/underpinning triad; and North Korean traffic cop gets state’s highest award.   Read more »
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Posted on May 10, 2013
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
Time to Pull the Plug on MOX
Some things never seem to change, sometimes to the detriment of the U.S. taxpayer. Allowing parochial interests to trump national ones is a Washington tradition that lives on. Case in point: this week Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) placed a “hold” on the nomination of Dr. Ernest Moniz, a well-respected MIT professor and former Undersecretary of Energy, to be the next head of the Department of Energy (DOE). The reason? The senator is concerned about administration plans to reduce the budget request for the plutonium fuel program at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina known as MOX. Read more »
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Posted by Paul Carroll on April 30, 2013
Department of Energy, MOX, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nuclear Budget, United States
US and South Korea Punt on Controversial Nuclear Deal
  On the radar: Hung up on enrichment and reprocessing; Sen. Graham’s pork politics; Warheads before nonproliferation; B61 a strange priority; Iran’s presidential and nuclear politics; and George Bunn, 1925-2013.   Read more »
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Posted on April 24, 2013
Nuclear Budget: Bombs Explode, Anti-Terror Programs Wane, Boondoggles Bust
  On the radar: NNSA budget winners and losers; Ignoring fiscal headwinds; Bell tolls for MOX; Model transparency; Wargames on the peninsula; and Bushehr shaky on safety.   Read more »
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Posted on April 11, 2013
Budget Request Skimps on Nonproliferation, Plumps Up Weapons Work
  On the radar: Nonproliferation down, bombs up; Missile defense request dips; Business as usual with North Korea; Bushehr quake; and Detecting nuclear tests with your iPhone.   Read more »
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Posted on April 10, 2013
What Capabilities Does North Korea Have?
On the radar: Bluster and reality; Limited and untested missiles; Long-term strategy for Iran and Iranians; Tweaking the doomsday plan; Capping MOX; Other E. Asian nuclear threats; and Surviving radiation exposure.   Read more »
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Posted on April 5, 2013
Experts Doubt Iron Dome’s Effectiveness
  On the radar: Works every time, 40% of the time; the Disasta’ in Alaska; MOX to cost $7.7 billion; BMD boosters look east; Obama in Israel; Brazil’s evolving role; Reshaping nuclear policy; and That time we almost shot Ahmadinejad.   Read more »
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Posted on March 21, 2013