Whether the Russian operation against Georgia was premeditated or not, the leadership has used it effectively to strengthen nationalistic support within the country, and to challenge the view domestically and internationally of expanding, unbridled US dominance.
Programmes
NATO nuclear sharing: Opportunity for change?
There is pressure on the US and NATO to remove nuclear weapons from Europe and an opportunity for change at the forthcoming Alliance summit, where plans are afoot to open the Strategic Concept for rev
The Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver
The NSG has granted India a waiver; however, members believed an unconditional waiver would undermine the non-proliferation regime and criticized the US position.
Iran update: number 126
Summary
- IAEA suggests that Iran may have attempted to combine its missile and nuclear technologies; Iran refuses to fully cooperate with its inquiries
- UN Security Council passes resolution req
Getting to Zero Update
In this issue: Commitments to disarmament and arms control ; Country reports.
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),