The prospect of a shift in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s position on tactical nuclear weapons in Europe in 2010 was the subject of a BASIC event held at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
The British Election: What Happened and What Does it Mean?
Britain\’s “Mick Jagger election,” at which nobody got any satisfaction, was the topic of this joint BASIC event with the Center for Transatlantic Relations. The event took place at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, EU Center of Excellence in Washington, DC.
BASIC expert comment on critical nuclear weapons conference in New York from next week
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York will be attended by 189 countries and last from 3 to 28 May 2010.
BASIC’s Washington Program Director, Anne Penketh, has provided the scorecard below on key things to look for from the Review Conference. BASIC also has a number of publications either published or forthcoming on key issues surrounding the NPT.
What to watch for at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
Anne Penketh, BASIC Program Director
April 2010
This has been a whirlwind month of international events involving nuclear diplomacy, running up to next week’s Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in New York.
British lapdog gets ready to be set loose
“The big shift in this relationship has been the election of Obama, which has been basically a shift away from traditional alliances and towards reaching out to new relationships around the world.”
BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram quoted in RT News.
Read more:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-04-23/british-debate-foreign-policy.html
Iran Update: Number 142
- Head of Iran's nuclear organization says Tehran still open to fuel swap
- Iran hails new centrifuge
- United States focuses on Iranian nuclear program's weapons potential
- Iranian President assails U.S. President over Nuclear Posture Review
- International divisions over sanctions continue
- Iran holds international conference on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
- Khatami prevented from visiting Hiroshima
The threat of nuclear terrorism: a race between catastrophe and co-operation
“If there was an incident of nuclear terrorism, what happens thereafter? You can imagine if al Qa’eda attacked. You can see them saying, ‘Actually we’ve got more. We will blast more at a time that we choose.’ Even if it was not true there would be panicked emptying of cities globally. If an incident happened in an American city, the US would be under enormous pressure to use enormous military force to target whoever is connected in any way. You’d have widespread instability and conflict.”
BASIC Research Director Dr. Ian Kearns quoted in The National (Abu Dhabi)
No Easy Options for Obama if Iran Sanctions Fail
“New international sanctions won’t be the ‘crippling’ ones sought by the West. There are likely to be plenty of sanctions-busting operations that reduce their impact.”
BASIC Executive Director Paul Ingram quoted by Reuters via the National Post (Canada).
Read more:
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2817289