BASIC’s Research Director, Dr Ian Kearns was interviewed by Traci Watson for USA TODAY.
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“It is the right time to be withdrawing from Iraq”
“If the Americans did care about stability in Iraq and if they thought they could influence it, it’s the wrong time. It’s an admission, in a way, that they never had the capacity to bring stability to Iraq.”
BASIC's Executive Director, Paul Ingram interviewed by RT News. Read more and watch the video:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-08-31/time-withdraw-troops-iraq.html
Time to reassess Trident options amid funding crisis: BASIC report
It is time to reassess options for the replacement of the Trident nuclear missile submarines in the light of indications that the capital cost of doing so could run to 28 billion pounds over the next 10-15 years, according to a new report by the British American Security Information Council (BASIC).
A crisis in financing Britain’s replacement of Trident?
It is time to reassess options for the replacement of the Trident nuclear missile submarines in the light of indications that the capital cost, to be funded from the Defence Ministry's core budget, could run to 28 billion pounds over the next 10-15 years. But Paul Ingram and Nick Ritchie also argue that it would be a mistake to base a decision on cost alone.
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BASIC/ACA/PISM Warsaw roundtable on NATO’s nuclear posture, 5-6 July
START expiration ends U.S. inspection of Russian nuclear bases
This Washington Post article by Mary Beth Sheridan recounts how the United States has lost the ability to peek into the Russian nuclear arsenal because the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), along with its accompanying verification measures, expired without a replacement in force.
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It’s a no-brainer: ratify the arms control treaty
“In the last few weeks, watching the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on New START unfold, I have sometimes felt like shouting out 'Senators, get a world view,' because in the minutiae of 18 public hearings, the bigger picture has been lost.”
Excerpt from article by BASIC Program Director Anne Penketh, written for The Hill's Congress Blog.
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