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Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff	This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late...
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Fiona Morgan	Missile defense goes global Bush seeks to woo Europe while violating our hallmark arms control agreement with Russia. Analysts react to the president's speech...
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer	Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail?
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 Stan Crock	Two Ways To Stop The Spread Of Nukes The awful truth is that the world is a more dangerous place now than it was even during the Cold War. But new ideas may yet help to lower the nuclear peril.
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman	Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared."
Popular Mechanics September 3, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. and Russian Nukes Get Sophisticated as Numbers Dwindle Arms control efforts may become a casualty as the Russian invasion of Georgia deepens mistrust between the United States and Russia.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 William Sweet	The Atomic Energy Agency's Peace Prize The conferral in October of the Nobel Peace Prize on the International Atomic Energy Agency and its current director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, is noteworthy on several scores.
Parameters Summer 2004 Justin Bernier	The Death of Disarmament in Russia? Traditional arms control agreements with Russia, it seems, are as much a part of Cold War history as the Soviet Union itself.
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Michael Scherer	Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars...
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Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan	"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell	Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf.
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Fiona Morgan	Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts.
Geotimes August 2005 Katie Donnelly	The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting.
National Defense August 2008 Matthew Rusling	Oil Is Out; Is Nuclear In? Put yourself in an imaginary time machine and set the dial to around the year 2040. The exorbitant price of oil, now at $500 a barrel, has pushed a good chunk of the globe toward nuclear power.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Nader Elhefnawy	The Next Wave of Nuclear Proliferation Record oil prices and long-term concerns about fossil fuel supplies have helped revive interest in nuclear energy production, but little consideration has been given to the security implications of using it on a global scale.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003	Can The U.N. Beef Up Controls On Nukes? Mohamed Elbaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, wants a stronger regime for containing the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Geotimes October 2005 Katie Donnelly	A Denuclearized Korean Peninsula South Korea is not alone in having a different perspective than the United States about North Korea. Even though the other countries involved in the Six Party Talks have vested interests in a denuclearized Korean peninsula, each sees the problem of North Korea in a different light with different solutions.
BusinessWeek October 3, 2005 Stan Crock	The "Wrong Signal" On Containing Nukes? These days, playing hardball with the United States has few downsides.
Science News June 20, 2009 Elizabeth Quill	Book Review: The Bomb: A New History By Stephen M. Younger Younger offers a straightforward account of nuclear weapons: how they were developed, how they work and how they forced humankind into constant vulnerability
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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 M. V. Ramana	More Missiles Than Megawatts India's nuclear choices have favored warheads over civilian reactors, and those choices are taking their toll. Between its burgeoning economy and a population that is projected to eclipse China's by 2050, India has difficult choices to make regarding its energy future.
Salon.com October 9, 2002 Robert Scheer	Bush vs. the CIA As the president plays up the threat Saddam Hussein poses to America, the CIA plays it down.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum	What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.
Salon.com September 19, 2002 Robert Scheer	Iraq: The phantom menace George W. Bush's war plans in the Middle East have more to do with elections than global security.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005	Nuclear Testing Goes Virtual The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration officially dedicated two state-of-the-art supercomputers that should allow the United States' nuclear weapons arsenal to be kept in working order without the need for underground testing.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Stan Crock	Iran's Nukes: The Crisis Is Far From Over In the end the world may have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran -- and the regional proliferation that could ensue. That's a sober prospect for the Bush Administration.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Thomas M. Kane	Dragon or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons in a Modernizing China Analysts of contemporary Chinese foreign policy often dismiss the nuclear arsenal of the People's Republic of China as insignificant in size and passively defensive in purpose. This article argues that Beijing has long-term aspirations to improve its position in world politics, and that nuclear weapons play a fundamental role in its plans.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Anne Lauvergeon A conversation with Anne Lauvergeon; the French call the CEO of the largely state-owned nuclear power company Areva "Atomic Annie."
Salon.com June 26, 2000 David Horowitz	Al Gore's missile-defense dodge The vice president cares more about reassuring the Russians than protecting Americans, and that's why George W. Bush should be president.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Robert Scheer	The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action."
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver	Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment.
Salon.com May 2, 2001 Jake Tapper	Star Wars, the gentler sequel In announcing his support for a national missile defense, George W. Bush puts a futuristic spin on a Cold War relic...
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Parameters Spring 2007 Louis Rene Beres	Israel's Uncertain Strategic Future An assessment of current threats to Israel's survival along with recommendations for an end to its policy of nuclear ambiguity.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Adam Hadhazy	Infrastructure, Energy, Arms and the State of the Union Last night, President Obama delivered his first official State of the Union address to Congress and the nation. Here are some highlights, in the president's own words.
Popular Mechanics October 16, 2006 Simon Cooper	North Korea: The Bigger (Non-Nuclear) Threat The consensus is that North Korea has developed anthrax, plague and botulism toxin as weapons, and has extensively researched at least six other germs including smallpox and typhoid.
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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet	Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems.
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stan Crock	North Korea: Talking Is One Thing. Getting Somewhere Is Another Negotiations expected to begin in September involving North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. are likely to be the most difficult and complex the Bush Administration has attempted so far. The Administration faces a host of dilemmas.
Salon.com January 2, 2003 Robert Scheer	Bush's illogical foreign policy The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio	The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004	Editor's Shelf Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century... Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Can We Have One Without the Other?... Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment... Rethinking the National Security of Pakistan: The Price of Strategic Myopia... etc.
Popular Mechanics February 22, 2008 Adam Pitluk	3 Things We Learned From the Accidental U.S. Nuke Flyby One might think that the United States' nuclear weapons would be treated with the utmost precision, but last year they mistakenly transported over the mainland.