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Test Ban Sensors Detect Radioactivity from North Korea’s Latest Test
  On the radar: Monitors and models; Trident or troops; Taking N. Korea at its word; Countryman on Iran & NPT; PrepCom App; Lessons from Al-Kibar; and Why Tsarnaev is charged with using WMD.   Read more »
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Posted on April 23, 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
Concern About South Korea’s Nuclear Interests
  On the radar: Seoul questions the taboo; South Korean reprocessing; Congress undercutting diplomacy; Dempsey to Moscow; Iran’s security dilemma; and Journalists’ pickle on Pakistan.   Read more »
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Posted on March 11, 2013
The Value of Implementing New START
On the radar: Kerry gets logical; Gottemoeller on implementation; NYT view after Moscow talks; Marking the (almost) ground zero; Clinton: Iran attack would strengthen regime; Trustworthy partners, not friends; Explosive Iran-Venezuela relationship; and Oppenheimer’s hairdo.   Read more »
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Posted on June 22, 2012
Negotiations Back in the Picture
This weekend saw an encouraging resurgence of the word 'negotiations' in the conversation around Iran's nuclear program. After several weeks where talk of military conflict has dominated the discussion, it is a welcome change.  Read more »
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Posted by Margaret Swink on January 24, 2012
NPT, David Ignatius, Media, negotiations, Public Editor, Stuart E. Eizenstat, the Washington Post, Iran
Michael Douglas introduces Countdown to Zero at NPT RevCon
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Posted by Deborah Bain on May 6, 2010
Countdown to Zero, NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Zero, Proliferation
deepti choubey
Why It's Hard to Strengthen the NPT
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Posted by Deborah Bain on May 6, 2010
China, Middle East & Persian Gulf, NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Proliferation, Iran, START, United States
Iran's Incredible Shrinking Influence
The trumpeted U.S.-Iran showdown at the United Nations was over moments after it began. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strutted and fretted his almost-hour on the stage of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference on May 3. Then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered her smack down. If it were a boxing match, the refs would have ended it. Read more »
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Posted by Joe Cirincione on May 6, 2010
Middle East & Persian Gulf, NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation, Iran
Rebecca Johnson
Nuclear Weapons: Beyond Nonproliferation?
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Posted by Deborah Bain on May 4, 2010
NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation
U.S. to Reveal Size of Nuclear Stockpile
The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded secret -- the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile -- perhaps as early as Monday, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the opening session of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference.  Despite opposition to the move by some within the administration, arms-control activists and officials in the Energy and State departments have argued that making the numbers public would prove how much progress the U.S. government has made in shrinking its Cold War arsenal. Read more »
Posted by Deborah Bain on May 2, 2010
NPT, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation, United States