Categories: Nuclear Roundup

Nuclear Roundup: 2/23/2017

By Jodi Lieberman, February 23, 2017

A compilation of quality nuclear policy news published on the Web, around the world.

United States

GOP congressman says nuclear bomb could be smuggled in a ‘bale of marijuana.’ Don’t laugh too hard.

Plutonium Remains a Hot Topic, But Rocky Flats Museum Still Out in the Cold

Reviving Cold War Doomsday Devices Could Patch America’s Broken Nuclear Controls

International

Julie Bishop meets with US officials over North Korea’s increasingly provocative behavior

US again presses China to get tough with North Korea

North Korea says China ‘dancing to the tune of the US’

China Rattles the Nuclear Saber

Aziz sounds alarm over ‘nuclearisation’ of Indian Ocean

The Importance of Bilateral U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation during Times of Political Turbulence

NTI/CENESS Report Released: Pathways to Cooperation

Russia to Arm 90 Percent of Strategic Nuclear Forces with Modern Weaponry by 2020

General Interest

Sig Hecker to Address Nuclear North Korea, Moderated By Valerie Plame Thursday

3D Printing: The Future of Missile Production and Proliferation?

Carlson: Nuclear-Weapon States Must Join the Nuclear Weapons Ban Negotiations

Disarmament while the chance remains 

Send Jodi Lieberman items of interest for the Nuclear Roundup at brodnica67@gmail.com.

 

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