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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...
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Arianna Huffington	The backward Bushies The White House has started a new arms race using old, Cold War logic...
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons	United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals.
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 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.
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.
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.
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall	Dubya's atomic fib Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's Star Wars plan could help fuel one.
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.
National Defense June 2009 Clark A. Murdock	A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise.
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.
National Defense October 2014 Marvin Baker Schaffer	Time to Revive Debate About Space-Based Missile Defense Boost phase missile defense is necessary to reliably and cost-effectively defeat the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile threats, those of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
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 May 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Nuclear Programs Receive Money for Upgrades The Energy Department is allocating more money for monitoring and improving the nation's aging supply of nuclear weapons and concurrently is laying a foundation for the construction of new warheads.
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.
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.
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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.
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Popular Mechanics February 2007 Simon Cooper	North Korea's Biochemical Threat While its nuclear test spurs outrage, North Korea grows a vast biochemical weapons arsenal in secrecy. We investigate Kim Jong Il's deception, his country's human trials and the terror potential of this rogue nation's deadly harvest.
Salon.com July 27, 2001 Ian Williams	Kooks 'R' U.S. By going its own way on biological weapons, Kyoto, missile defense and a growing list of global issues, the Bush administration is turning the United States into a pariah...
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.
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."
Salon.com December 11, 2002 Robert Scheer	America's weapons of mass destruction If weapons inspectors were to look at the United States, what would they find?
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.
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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.
National Defense October 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Candidates Imprecise On Pentagon Spending Neither President George W. Bush nor his opponent, Sen. John F. Kerry, has dwelt to any great degree on the nuts and bolts of military spending.
Salon.com May 19, 2001 Ben Barber	The Colin Powell difference For Foreign Service veterans, the new secretary of state's openness is a welcome change from Madeleine Albright's snobbery...
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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.
Salon.com October 3, 2001 Andrew Leonard	The invisible nightmare Biological weapons are not that hard to produce, says a sober new book written before Sept. 11 -- and they're getting easier all the time...
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.
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.
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Salon.com September 12, 2000 Arthur Allen	The battle over bio-terror A recent report urges America to pour $13 billion into preventing disease-based warfare, but evidence suggests that our fears are misplaced.
Salon.com December 20, 2001 Asla Aydintasbas	The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening?
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?
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National Defense February 2005 Harold Kennedy	Military Officials Warn Al Qaeda Determined To Attack With WMD Most attacks probably would be small-scale, incorporating improvised delivery systems and easily produced chemicals, toxins or radiological substances.
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