George Perkovich is the leading author of a new Adelphi paper, commissioned in part by the UK Foreign Office and trailed by Margaret Beckett, whilst Foreign Secretary, in a speech at the Carnegie Conference in 2007 about the technical and political aspects around moves towards a world free of nuclear weapons. The paper was launched in Washington on 16th September at the Carnegie Endowment.
Analysis
Thomas P D’Agostino on Administration attitudes to nuclear disarmament
Thomas P D'Agostino, the Administrator of the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), addressed issues including the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) scheme, the impact of animosity betw
Event on nuclear weapons, security, and moral leadership
Speakers including Sergio Duarte, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Jonathan Granoff, Jonathan Schell, Naila Bolus, Douglas Roche, and Emilie Townes will contribute to a Yale Divinity School conference on Nuclear Weapons, Security, and Moral Leadership.
Title: Are we safe yet? Vulnerability and security in an anxious age
Date: September 18-19, 2008
Place: Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut
Iran update: number 125
Summary
- Russia commits to completing light water reactor at Bushehr; overall Russian-Iranian nuclear ties may be increasing
- Iran risking new round of sanctions, but no news yet
- French President Sarkozy takes up mantle as a principal intermediary between West and Iran
- Syrian attempts to persuade Iran to more seriously commit to inspection regime
- Iranian air force to hold war games during Ramadan
On September 2, the state-run Russian nuclear consortium, AtomStroiExport (ASE),
Iran update: number 124
Summary
- New sanctions imposed; ongoing negotiations on Iran's nuclear program
- Implications from conflict in Georgia; Medvedev scheduled to meet with Ahmadinejad
- Iran announces second nuclear power plant site; Russian nuclear official to visit Tehran and Bushehr
- Tehran tests Safir rocket, United States says it was a failed satellite launch
- Iran claims increase in the range of its fighter jets
- New Iranian submarine class announced
- Khamenei shows support for second Ahmadinejad term
On August 8, the Eu
The US-India agreement and its impact on the non-proliferation regime
The Indo–US civilian nuclear agreement allowing the United States to trade nuclear material, including fuel and information, has serious implications for the NPT, IAEA safeguards and the NSG.
India and the nuclear deal
The Indo–US agreement has been criticized for creating a hole in the Non-Proliferation Treaty and complicating punishment against potential NPT violators, but its supporters claim it brings India into the broader non-proliferation regime.