Nuclear Experts Remain Optimistic About Iranian Negotiations
Michele Kelemen | NPR
Arms control experts are sounding upbeat Monday at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., as a deadline approaches on the Iranian nuclear talks.
U.N. Agency Unsure About Iran's Past Nuclear Activity
Teresa Welsh | U.S. News & World Report
“We are still not in a position to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is [for a] peaceful purpose,” Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington on Monday.
Pakistan Wants Short-Range Nuclear Weapons
CBS News
Pakistan needs short-range "tactical" nuclear weapons to deter arch-rival India, a top adviser to its government said Monday, dismissing concerns it could increase the risk of a nuclear war.
Shaheen-3 Missile to Cover Indian Second Strike from Andaman: Lt General Khalid Kidwai
Sushant Singh | Indian Express
Addressing the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference 2015 in Washington DC, Kidwai said one sided policies of the United States favouring India have been a destabilizing factor for South Asia.
Pentagon Has Done a Bad Job of Defending Nuclear Triad, Air Force General Says
Marcus Weisgerber | Defense One
The nuclear triad, referenced by Harencak at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy conference on Monday, is the combination of ICBMs, submarines and strategic bomber aircraft. Outside of the think-tank world or every four years when the Pentagon writes a new Quadrennial Defense Review, leaders rarely talk about the triad.
Lugar Still Pursues Nonproliferation, Despite Setback
Maureen Groppe | Indy Star
Former Sen. Richard Lugar remembered Monday how hard it was to persuade some of his colleagues 24 years ago to approve a program to secure or destroy weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union." Not one dime for the Russians," those colleagues told him, Lugar recalled to an audience at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington.