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Stephen Young

Writing on ACW 2005 · 6 posts

Senior Analyst, Global Security Program. Stephen Young lobbies administration officials, members of Congress, and journalists to advance UCS security-related campaigns, largely focusing on arms control, nuclear weapons policy, missile defense, and nuclear threat reduction programs.

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Repliable Replacement Warheads

The Replacements – great 80s band. (copyright, Daniel Corrigan) The Reliable Replacement Warhead program is hot, very hot. It is all things to all people. Very pliable, as it were. A Hill staffer told me, in fact, that the Department…

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60 years later

Hiroshima, afterwards, and the “atomic dome” The 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an appropriate time to review the status of nuclear weapons in the world. It’s okay, it’s quite bad, and it’s unbelievably insane. It’s okay, in that…

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From Russia, With MIRVs

The Bush Adminstration has said, time and time again, that the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, or SORT, more commonly known as the Moscow Treaty, shows that relations with Russia are just fine. This came up, naturally, in the context of…

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Thinking about the Unthinkable . . . a Couple Meters Underground

Chemical and biological weapons released by the “bunker buster, as seen in our animation.” Shameless—but timely—piece of self-promotion here. The Union of Concerned Scientists, where I work, along with Physicians for Social Responsibility, produced an excellent animation on the Robust…

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What we have here is a failure to operate

Now these guys knew how to operate. George W. Bush loves missile defense. Loves, loves, loves. So does Donald Rumsfeld. And Dick Cheney. So do a legion of members of Congress, most of them Republicans. For that matter, so do…

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Hey, buddy, want some bomb grade uranium?

These probably won’t help, but just in case. Today’s quiz is on who is making it easier for terrorists to get the bomb. 1. Which country is currently known to be exporting highly enriched uranium, in other words, bomb-grade nuclear…