“I wouldn't say it was dead. It's in emergency resuscitation” … “If there is hope, no, it's not coming from Washington. The leadership of this is not going to come from Washington.”
Paul Ingram, executive director of BASIC, was quoted in the Guardian. To read more see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/barack-obama-nuclear-hopes-f…
[Trident replacement would] “be easily the most expensive defense procurement project for the decade from 2015/6, sucking the finances out of other major projects.” says Paul Ingram, executive director of BASIC. To read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/british-budget-collapse-f_b_769959.html
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“The threat perceptions of Turkey and the other NATO alliances are overlapped to some extent but not completely……. That's where the real debate inside NATO comes from; it's from differing threat perceptions.”
Dr Ian Kearns, BASIC's Research Director was interviewed after the roundtable along with other particpants.
Read more: “http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/108218/-jtw-interview-leading-experts-…“>
“The Israelis and the Americans point to the fact that the Iranians have made a very public commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty – not to acquire nuclear weapons – whereas Israel is legally able to develop its arsenal.”….. “But the legal defense and the defense that Israel developed its weapons a while ago is hardly a defense in terms of justice”
Paul Ingram wrote the lead letter in the Financial Times, arguing that “there are in fact substantial financial benefits” to ending the requirement that the United Kingdom maintain a nuclear submarine at sea at all times. “Not only would the current running costs be reduced, but so too would the total substantial capital costs…”
Read the full letter on the website of the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afb28048-c056-11df-8a81-00144feab49a.html
BASIC’s Research Director, Dr Ian Kearns was interviewed by Traci Watson for USA TODAY.
“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
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.
Read the full article: