Category Archives: Nuclear Terrorism

Taking Action: President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit

By Page | Published: April 11, 2010
Also published here. The bottom line is this: for the foreseeable future, the United States and other nations will face an existential threat from the intersection of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Preventing terrorists from obtaining weapons or materials of mass destruction is a far more exacting arms control goal than existed during the [...]
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A New Approach to US Nuclear Policy: Deterring Nuclear Terrorism

By Page | Published: December 19, 2009
Originally published here. Back in August of this year, the Pentagon released two fact sheets on the Nuclear Posture Review, or NPR. As it states quite simply, the objective of the NPR is: To establish U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next 5 – 10 years. At the time, a number [...]
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