Does the U.S. Nuclear Industry Have a Future?
Mark Hibbs
Adding to pressure from loss of know-how and high costs, U.S. nuclear power plant vendors are now challenged by Chinese and Russian exporters whose government owners view nuclear energy in strategic, not commercial terms.
U.S. Faces Critical Moment to Negotiate With North Korea, Experts Warn
Julian Borger | Guardian
One possible deal, suggested by James Acton, the co-director of the nuclear policy programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, could involve a quid pro quo. “There could an agreement with North Korea that it does not carry out missile flights over South Korea or Japan and we agree not to fly within a certain proximity of the North Korean border,” Acton said.
South Korea to Prevent War at All Costs, President Moon Says
Peter Pae | Bloomberg
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that any military action against Kim Jong Un’s regime requires his nation’s approval, and vowed to prevent war at all costs. “There will be no war repeated on the Korean Peninsula,” Moon said in a speech on Tuesday marking the anniversary of the end of Japanese occupation in the 1940s. Military action against North Korea should be decided by “ourselves and not by anyone else,” he said.
Report Claims North Korea Obtained Rocket Engines From a Ukrainian Factory
PBS Newshour
As tensions intensify between the U.S. and North Korea, a provocative new report suggests the engines for its new missiles come from a factory in Ukraine. Special correspondent Nick Schifrin debates the conclusions of the report with Mike Elleman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Melissa Hanham of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Iranian President Threatens to Revitalize Nuclear Program
Nasser Karimi | Washington Post
Iran’s president warned Tuesday that it could ramp up its nuclear program and quickly achieve a more advanced level if the U.S. continues “threats and sanctions” against the country, which signed a landmark nuclear accord with world powers in 2015.
Of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Misconceptions
Ulrich Kühn
Ulrich Kühn, Carnegie associate and Stanton nuclear security fellow, answers questions on CSIS “Russian Roulette” on Russian nuclear force advancement and the U.S. response.