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Forget all the stories explaining how the election imperils the New START treaty. The elections matter, but not quite in the way you think. The real threat to the New START treaty is now from the nuclear-weapons complex — comprising …
Yesterday, I noted that the centerpiece of the UK-France agreement to cooperate on nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship was to be a new radiography facility at Valduc, called EPURE. Today, a few more details are available. It appears that the facility…
Note: This post appears in both Russian and English (after the jump). В недавнeй статье в блоге радиостанции Эхо Москвы и в заявлениях прессе, председатель комитета по международным делам Госдумы РФ Константин Косачев выразил озабоченность по поводу текста резолюции совета…
The UK and France have signed a Defense and Security Cooperation Agreement (English|French) that provides, among other things, for common stockpile stewardship activities: 7. We have decided: [snip] b) to collaborate in the technology associated with nuclear stockpile stewardship in…
Two questions were paramount after the destructive power of atomic weapons was revealed. Some, depending on temperament and instinct, asked whether the capability to make such weapons might possibly be placed under international control. Others, assuming failure in this pursuit,…
