Getting to Zero – Update
Publication
To ask the question is to answer it
I think events of this year alone show that the answer to the question, explicit in the title of this 2006 congressional hearing, is no. I recommend taking a glance so you can see how little we have advanced since then.
May 25, 2006:
Hearing: The A.Q. Khan Network: Case Closed?
HEARING TRANSCRIPT (.HTM)
HEARING TRANSCRIPT (.PDF = 517 KB)
The real cost behind Trident replacement and the carriers
The lifetime costs – £5bn, or 40% of the defense equipment budget – is unjustifiable at a time of tightening public budgets
From the frying pan into the fire: US Arms sales and military assistance to the Persian Gulf and Middle East
Continuing arms sales and military assistance programs are premised on an unproved Iranian threat, will affect the regional strategic balance and support authoritarian regimes.
Getting to Zero Update
In this issue: Arms control ; Country reports ; Nuclear energy
Nuclear terrorism: A US Perspective
Terrorists could attack the US by stealing or buying a nuclear weapon; by buying or stealing weapons grade U-235 or plutonium and assembling a device; or by assembling radioactive isotopes into a non-nuclear “dirty bomb.”