Proliferation News

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  • August 13, 2020 Edition

    US Attempts to Win More Support With Streamlined Bid to Extend Iran Arms Embargo

    IN THIS ISSUE: US Attempts to Win More Support With Streamlined Bid to Extend Iran Arms Embargo, Newly Obtained Trump-Kim Letters May Reveal More on Unlikely Relationship, Trump Calls Nuclear Disarmament With Russia World's Biggest Problem

  • August 11, 2020 Edition

    Managing The Sino-American Dispute Over Missile Defense

    IN THIS ISSUE: Managing The Sino-American Dispute Over Missile Defense, Russia Warns It Will See Any Incoming Missile As Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Deal At Risk As U.N. Council Prepares To Vote On Arms Embargo, It Is Not Right Timing For China To Join U.S.-Russia Arms Control Talks: Chinese Ambassador, 43 Countries And Regions Ratify U.N. Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: Implications for U.S. Nonproliferation Efforts

  • August 06, 2020 Edition

    75 Years On, How Will The Nuclear Age End?

    IN THIS ISSUE: 75 Years On, How Will The Nuclear Age End?, Hiroshima 75th Anniversary: Preserving Survivors’ Message of Peace, Beyond the Ruins of Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons: Arms-Control Efforts Need China, Saudi Arabia, With China’s Help, Expands Its Nuclear Program, How The DOD Plans To Meet Its Ambitious Hypersonic Missile Test Schedule

  • August 04, 2020 Edition

    U.A.E. Becomes First Arab Nation to Open a Nuclear Power Plant

    IN THIS ISSUE: U.A.E. Becomes First Arab Nation to Open a Nuclear Power Plant, UK Lobbies U.S. to Support Controversial New Nuclear Warheads, Review: The New Nuclear Threat, Urgency to Bear Witness Grows for Last Hiroshima Victims, North Korea has ‘Probably Developed’ Nuclear Devices to Fit Ballistic Missiles, UN Report Says, Raytheon and Rafael to Build Iron Dome in U.S.

  • July 30, 2020 Edition

    Iran Fires Missiles in Drill, Prompting U.S. Bases to Go on Alert

    IN THIS ISSUE: Iran Fires Missiles in Drill, Prompting U.S. Bases to Go on Alert, Trump Team’s Case for New Nuke Cites Risks in Current Arsenal, Opinion: China’s Arms Buildup Threatens the Nuclear Balance, Nuclear Official Says Warhead Modernization Program on Track Despite COVID, GAO Concerns, A New Nuclear Model Could Upend how Countries Count Bombs, Philippines Takes ‘Major Step’ Toward Using Nuclear Power

  • July 28, 2020 Edition

    US, Russia Begin Three Days of Nuclear Arms-Control Talks

    IN THIS ISSUE: US, Russia Begin Three Days of Nuclear Arms-Control Talks, Kim Jong Un Says Nuclear Weapons Will Guarantee North Korea's National Safety, More Than 40 Countries Accuse North Korea of Breaching UN Sanctions

  • July 23, 2020 Edition

    Remembering Bruce Blair

    IN THIS ISSUE: Remembering Bruce Blair, Trump Nominee to Russia: Abandon ‘Flying Chernobyl’ Nuclear Missile, After Huawei, the Nuclear Question Looms Large for China-UK Relations, SRS Pit Production Provision in Key Defense Bill Deemed Problematic by White House

  • July 21, 2020 Edition

    House Votes to Block Funding for Nuclear Testing

    IN THIS ISSUE: Explosion Hits Another Power Plant in Iran, Chinese Spokesperson Says US Should ‘Stop Playing Dumb’ on Nuclear Arms Agreement, Two Russian Latest Nuclear-Powered Subs to Carry Hypersonic Missiles

  • July 16, 2020 Edition

    Thinking the Other Unthinkable: Disarmament in North Korea and Beyond

    IN THIS ISSUE: Thinking the Other Unthinkable: Disarmament in North Korea and Beyond, Key House Democrats Want to Lock in New START Weapons Limits, Atomic Anniversary Brings U.S. Nuclear Official to New Mexico, N. Korea lashes out at Pompeo over anti-China remarks, Explosion at Natanz: Why Sabotaging Iran’s Nuclear Program Could Backfire, and UAE Completes Construction of Barakah 2

  • July 14, 2020 Edition

    Long-Planned and Bigger Than Thought: Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Program

    IN THIS ISSUE: Long-Planned and Bigger Than Thought: Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Program, Return to INF Treaty Impossible After US withdrawal — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Bad Faith All the Way: US Attempts to Bring China to the Arms Control Table, New Nuclear Warhead Funding Would be Blocked by House Appropriators, Another Summit With U.S. 'Not Needed,' 'Not Beneficial': Kim's Sister, Democrats Split on Trump Plan to Use Development Funds For Nuclear Projects

  • July 09, 2020 Edition

    China Challenges US to Cut Nuclear Arsenal to Matching Level

    IN THIS ISSUE: The United States, China, and the Future of Arms Control, US Remains Ready to Resume Nuclear Talks With North Korea, Envoy Says, New Satellite Imagery Shows Activity at Suspected North Korean Nuclear Facility

  • July 07, 2020 Edition

    Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program

    IN THIS ISSUE: North Korea Rules Out Talks, as US Diplomat Visits Seoul, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette Fights to Retain NNSA Budget Reins, Spending Bill Would Block Funding for Nuclear Testing, US Says Leaking Nuclear Waste Dome Is Safe; Marshall Islands Leaders Don't Believe It

  • June 30, 2020 Edition

    Narrowing the U.S.-China Gap on Missile Defense: How to Forestall a Nuclear Arms Race

    IN THIS ISSUE: Figuring It Out the Hard Way: America, France, and the Challenges of Allied Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, 1958-63, A New Superpower Competition Between Beijing and Washington: China's Nuclear Buildup, Russia's Priority is to Involve UK, France in Future Nuclear Arms Control Talks - Diplomat

  • June 25, 2020 Edition

    Trump Administration Weighs Extending New START Nuclear Treaty

    IN THIS ISSUE: North Korea's Kim Backtracks on Military Threat, But More Surprises Likely in Store, US Warns Russia, China of UN Isolation if Iran Arms Extension Blocked, Trump Administration Says It Won't Carry Out a Nuclear Weapons Test ‘At This Time’

  • June 23, 2020 Edition

    What Do North Korean Provocations Mean for China?

    IN THIS ISSUE: US, Russia Hold New Nuclear Arms Talks, But Without China, UN Nuclear Watchdog Presses Iran for Access to Suspect Sites, Europe Tells US: We Won't Back Unilateral Iran Sanctions Snapback

  • June 18, 2020 Edition

    South Korea's Nuclear Envoy Visits US as Tensions Flare With North Korea

    IN THIS ISSUE: China and North Korea Ramping Up Their Nuclear Weapons Arsenals: Report, Putin Says Russia Will Be Able to Counter Hypersonic Weapons, Polish and US Presidents to Discuss Nuclear Energy, French Submarine Burns in ‘Unbelievably Fierce Fire’ for 14 Hours

  • June 16, 2020 Edition

    North Korea Blows Up Joint Liaison Office With South in Kaesong

    IN THIS ISSUE: India Says 20 Soldiers Killed in Clash Along Contested Border With China, Europeans Push for Iran Rebuke at Nuclear Watchdog Over Inspections, Japan Halts Deployment of Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System, Russia Charges Scientist With Passing Information to China

  • June 11, 2020 Edition

    Russia Will Open Nuclear Disarmament Talks With US

    IN THIS ISSUE: Russia, China Build Case at UN to Protect Iran from US Sanctions Threat, New Bill Would Prohibit the President From Nuking a Hurricane, US Offers to Build UK's 5G and Nuclear Stations to End ‘Coercive’ Relationship With China

  • June 09, 2020 Edition

    Hypersonic Missile Arms Race: What You Need to Know

    IN THIS ISSUE: US and Russia to Meet June 22 on Curbing Nuclear Stockpiles, Iran Blocking Sites Access, UN Nuclear Watchdog Says, China Mobilises Thousands of Troops, Armoured Vehicles Near Border With India, North Korea Cuts Off All Communications Lines to South Korea

  • June 04, 2020 Edition

    Putin, Trump Discuss G7 Summit, Arms Control in Phone Call

    IN THIS ISSUE: Putin Signs Russia's Nuclear Deterrent Policy, Pandemic Hits Navy's New Nuke Submarine Program, Air Force Is Buying Eight of These Missiles That Are Set To Become Its First Hypersonic Weapons

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