Fact Sheet: 2010 Nuclear Posture Review
The Nuclear Posture Review is scheduled for release sometime in March or April 2010. The review will set U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next five to ten years and influence the implementation of President Obama's far-reaching agenda to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons laid out in Prague. In this new factsheet, Kingston Reif and Chad O'Carroll examine the background, purpose, significance, and challenges of the Nuclear Posture Review.
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Center in the News
John Isaacs Interviewed about New START by Daily Kos
On February 28, John Isaacs, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discussed New START in a front page interview with Daily Kos.
John Isaacs and Robert Gard publish article on maintaining U.S. nuclear weapons in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
On February 24, John Isaacs, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, published an article on the prudence of maintaining a U.S. nuclear arsenal that is safe, secure, and reliable until a nuclear-weapon-free world can be achieved in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Robert Gard Co-Writes Letter to President Obama on the Nuclear Posture Review
On February 9, Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, co-wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to fulfill his April 2009 pledge to "put an end to Cold War thinking" and "reduce the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy."
Recent Analysis
Lips and Teeth
Mar 9, 2010
If it is true that North Korea’s WMD programs are being funded principally from illicit arms sales, then it is imperative that China take its UN Security Council sanctions obligations more seriously. In this new analysis, Chad O'Caroll questions whether this duty will ever be compatible with China’s goal of maintaining North Korean regime stability.
FY 2011 Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Funding
Mar 2, 2010
In his historic Prague speech on nuclear weapons, President Obama pledged that the United States would lead “a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” While last year's budget request was well below what is necessary to begin the hard work of achieving this lofty goal, the administration's Fiscal Year 2011 request includes significant increases for many key threat reduction and nonproliferation programs.
The Obama disarmament paradox: A rebuttal
Feb 24, 2010
Greg Mello's recent Bulletin article "The Obama Disarmament Paradox" distorts the Obama administration's nuclear agenda by making unjustified assumptions that discredit President Barack Obama's historic commitment to seek a nuclear-weapon-free world, write John Isaacs and Lt. Gen. Robert Gard, Jr. (USA, ret.) in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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