Categories: Nuclear Roundup

Nuclear Roundup: 6/5/2017

By Jodi Lieberman, June 5, 2017

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

Iran Nuclear Deal

Iran honoring nuclear deal but nearing heavy-water limit again: IAEA

Iran Developing Advanced Nuclear Capabilities, Reducing Time to Weapon

Iran fears nuclear deal collapse after US climate withdrawal

EX-UN ENVOY: TRUMP SHOULD HAVE KEPT PROMISE TO PULL OUT OF IRAN NUKE DEAL

Did Obama seek back-channel talks with Iran during his 2008 campaign?

United States

Is President Trump setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race?

Trump seeks to spend more on nuclear weapons but buys little added capability

America’s top brass is in Australia to talk counter-terrorism and North Korea strategy with the government

Trump budget would decimate DHS’s scientific research arm

Let us finish the job [Re: SRS/MOX]

After Trump’s Paris exit, what about nuclear?

New York’s plan for nuclear fallout is basically “duck and cover

The Paris Agreement and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation Efforts

Department of Energy Announces Dr. Thomas Zacharia as Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Strobe Talbott: The Full Transcript

Questions for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmation hearings

International

As US military flexes, North Korea marches toward nuclear capability

NORTH KOREA SAYS IT WANTS PEACE, BUT IS READY TO FIGHT THE U.S. WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat

Russia’s Putin shines sympathetic light on nuclear North Korea

Russia Calls North Korean Nuclear Ambitions ‘Direct Threat’

Tierney: We May Not Be Able to Stop a North Korean Missile

TELS AND MELS AND TES! OH MY!

India’s nuclear-weapon inventory set to increase, says report

China Repeats ‘No’ For Nuclear Group NSG, India Looks to Other Nations

Training a nuclear-ready workforce

Jeremy Corbyn heckled by debate audience for refusing to say if he would fire nuclear weapons

Opinion The Truth Behind Israel’s Desperate Plan to Set Off a Nuclear Device to Save Itself in 1967

‘Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

Michael Oren rejects report of Israeli nuclear ‘doomsday’ plan for Six-Day War

Apollo’s NUMEC allegedly supplied nuclear batteries to Israel in Six Day War

General Interest

Ban treaty offers chance for a world free of nuclear arms

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