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Korea's Nuclear Nightmare Hasn’t Gone Away

IN THIS ISSUE: Korea’s Nuclear Nightmare Hasn’t Gone Away, Iran Says Will Not Renegotiate Nuclear Deal, Warns Against Changes, Bibi’s Infomercial for the Iran Deal, Russia Says its Sea-Based Nuclear Power Plant is Safe. Critics call it a ‘Floating Chernobyl,’ Another Way to Define Nuclear Triad: Three Legs, Plus “Space Capability,” Key Sites Proposed for Nuclear Bomb Production Are Plagued by Safety Problems

Published on May 3, 2018

Korea's Nuclear Nightmare Hasn't Gone Away

James Acton | Foreign Policy

Americans could be forgiven if, based on news coverage of the Kim-Moon summit, they believe that the joint Panmunjom Declaration is a denuclearization agreement. It isn't. Its principal goal is to advance the cause of peace on the peninsula. Just one of its 13 action items relates explicitly to the North's nuclear weapons-and its wording is deliberately vague. 

Iran Says Will Not Renegotiate Nuclear Deal, Warns Against Changes

Parisa Hafezi | Reuters

Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday U.S. demands to change its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers were unacceptable as a deadline set by President Donald Trump for Europeans to "fix" the deal loomed. Trump has warned that unless European allies rectify the "terrible flaws" in the international accord by May 12, he will refuse to extend U.S. sanctions relief for the oil-producing Islamic Republic.

Bibi's Infomercial for the Iran Deal

Jeffrey Lewis | Foreign Policy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dog and pony show on Monday, in which he displayed a trove of documents from Iran's pre-2003 nuclear weapons program, had an audience of precisely one. It was part of a coordinated effort with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to kill the Iran nuclear deal.

Russia Says its Sea-Based Nulear Power Plant is Safe. Critics Call it a 'Floating Chernobyl"

Cleve R. Wootson Jr | Washington Post

If a Russian state-owned compant has its way, remote egions of the world will soon see giant, floating nuclear reactors pumping power to port cities and drilling platforms in a real-life version of the Soviet reversal joke: In Russia, 70-megavolt nuclear reactor comes to you. 

Another Way to Define Nuclear Triad: Three Legs, Plus "Space Capability"

Sandra Erwin | Space News

The Pentagon projects to spend over a trillion dollars in the coming decade on a new generation of nuclear bombers, submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles that collectively known as the nuclear triad. 

Key Sites Proposed for Nuclear Bomb Production Are Plagued by Safety Problems

Patrick Malone | Center for Public Integrity

The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and persistent safety issues plague both of the two candidate sites.

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