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	<title>The Plutonium Café &#187; Obama Administration</title>
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		<title>Nuclear Security Summit Wrap Up</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/nuclear-security-summit-wrap-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also published here. For the past eight years or so, the Nuclear Threat Initiative has commissioned a series of reports called &#8220;Securing The Bomb&#8220;. The lead author of these reports is Harvard professor Matthew Bunn, who is an expert in nuclear security and proliferation. The reports deal with the ongoing problem of poorly secured weapons-grade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recap: President Obama&#8217;s Nuclear Week</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/recap-president-obamas-nuclear-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[New START]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also published here. Back on March 31, Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic posted something that made me smile: Next week kicks off nuclear madness month at the White House &#8212; or, as one senior administration official resignedly describes it, &#8220;all nukes, all the time.&#8221; If you&#8217;re a nuke/national security blogger or journalist, last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Action: President Obama&#8217;s Nuclear Security Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/taking-action-president-obamas-nuclear-security-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/taking-action-president-obamas-nuclear-security-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plutoniumcafe.org/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperventilating Over President Obama&#8217;s Nuke Policies</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/hyperventilating-over-president-obamas-nuke-policies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/hyperventilating-over-president-obamas-nuke-policies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[New START]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plutoniumcafe.org/?p=567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Also published here. Today, in Prague, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev signed a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START. I&#8217;ve written quite a bit about New START; in one of my posts, I described it as a &#8220;maintenance agreement&#8221;. It&#8217;s a big deal that they&#8217;re signing it, but it&#8217;s also routine. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review: Looking Forward</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/the-2010-nuclear-posture-review-looking-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/04/the-2010-nuclear-posture-review-looking-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 Nuclear Posture Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also published here. Today, after many months of interagency talks and international consultation, the Obama administration announced that the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review is finally complete. You can download it by clicking the image above. What is the Nuclear Posture Review, or NPR? As the Department of Defense describes it: The Nuclear Posture Review is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Nuclear PR War</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/02/winning-the-nuclear-pr-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/02/winning-the-nuclear-pr-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[New START]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also published here. It was in 1983, one of the most tense years of the Cold War, when the Reagan administration was deploying Pershing II missiles in Europe, and the arms race with the Soviet Union was at a fevered pitch, that a young man at Columbia University wrote a rather interesting article discussing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US National Security Policy And Nuclear Weapons: Perspectives on the Nuclear Posture Review</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/01/us-national-security-policy-and-nuclear-weapons-perspectives-on-the-nuclear-posture-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2010/01/us-national-security-policy-and-nuclear-weapons-perspectives-on-the-nuclear-posture-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear non-proliferation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published here. Last week, physicist and Nobel laureate Leon Lederman, and Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard published a passionately worded op-ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled &#8220;Nuclear threat demands a sustained U.S. effort&#8220;. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Our leaders must embark on a step-by-step process to prevent the use and spread of these devastating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germs, Viruses, and Secrets: How The Obama Administration is Addressing Biological Threats</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/12/germs-viruses-and-secrets-how-the-obama-administration-is-addressing-biological-threats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/12/germs-viruses-and-secrets-how-the-obama-administration-is-addressing-biological-threats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biological Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biological Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biological Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biosecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioweapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Tucker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://819449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published here. When most of us think of &#8220;Cold War history&#8221;, we think of the Soviet Union and the United States building up massive nuclear arsenals, staring each other down over missiles in Cuba, or former Eastern and Western Europe. We think of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev, and Reagan. But what most people don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Approach to US Nuclear Policy: Deterring Nuclear Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/12/a-new-approach-to-us-nuclear-policy-deterring-nuclear-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/12/a-new-approach-to-us-nuclear-policy-deterring-nuclear-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plutoniumcafe.org/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; 10 years. At the time, a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Very Pragmatic Proposal&#8217; &#8211; The Obama Administration&#8217;s New Approach To Missile Defense</title>
		<link>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/09/a-very-pragmatic-proposal-the-obama-administrations-new-approach-to-missile-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gdmig-plutoniumcafe.org/2009/09/a-very-pragmatic-proposal-the-obama-administrations-new-approach-to-missile-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Missile Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aegis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Cirincione]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published here. Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing. The security of Europe has been a vital national interest of the United States for my entire career. The circumstances, borders and threats may have changed, but that commitment continues. [...]]]></description>
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