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Good morning,
Here is the Nuclear Policy News for
Monday, July 1, 2024.
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tripolar environment, the opportunistic
aggression challenge, nuclear
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Nuclear
Policy News – July 1, 2024
United
States
OPINION: On existential
threats, Biden, Trump, and CNN all
largely failed
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -
John Mecklin, Thomas Gaulkin
June 28, 2024
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Article
On Thursday evening, discussion of
these threats—nuclear war, climate
change, and a variety of disruptive
technologies ranging from synthetic
biology to artificial intelligence—was
minimal to nonexistent.
OPINION: The Looming Threat of
Renewed U.S. Nuclear Testing
Arms Control Today - Daryl Kimball
June 27, 2024
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Article
Most American voters may not realize
it, but nuclear weapons testing may be
on the ballot in November.
OPINION: Congress Could Save
$100B and Make Us Safer by
Cancelling Sentinel
Union of Concerned Scientists - Eryn
MacDonald
June 26, 2024
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Article
Next month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd
Austin must justify to Congress a 37%
cost overrun in the Pentagon’s project
to replace every nuclear missile in
the land-based leg of the nuclear
triad. He should make us all safer –
and save the US public upwards of $100
billion – by cancelling the Sentinel
intercontinental ballistic missile.
Europe/Russia
Putin
Vows to Make New Nuclear Missiles
and to Weigh Placing Them Near NATO
Nations
New York Times
June 28, 2024
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Article
President Vladimir V. Putin declared
on Friday that Russia would produce
new intermediate-range nuclear-capable
missiles and then decide whether to
deploy them within range of NATO
nations in Europe and American allies
in Asia.
OPINION: Kremlin’s Nuclear
Russian Roulette In Orbit Could
Trigger NATO Clash
Forbes - Kevin Holden Platt
June 28, 2024
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Article
As Russia escalates its nuclear
brinkmanship - with a top-secret drive
to launch the first plutonium warhead
into orbit and with simulated
explosions of tactical bombs near
Ukraine - it is edging closer to
sparking a conflict with the 32-nation
NATO alliance, say leading defense
scholars in the U.S.
OPINION: Is There a Path to
Counter Russia’s Space Weapons?
CSIS - Clayton Swope and Makena Young
June 28, 2024
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Article
What more can the United States do to
stop Russia from pursuing space
weapons that could indiscriminately
affect hundreds, if not thousands, of
satellites?
Middle
East
Iran installs half of planned
new centrifuges at Fordow, IAEA
report says
Reuters
June 28, 2024
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Article
Iran has installed half the advanced
uranium-enriching machines it said
earlier this month it would quickly
add to its Fordow site dug into a
mountain but has not yet brought them
online, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said
in a report seen by Reuters.
US and allies clash with
Tehran and Moscow over Iranian
nuclear program at UN Security
Council
Washington Post
June 25, 2024
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Article
The United States and its key European
allies clashed with Iran and Russia
over Tehran’s expanding nuclear
program, with the U.S. vowing “to use
all means necessary to prevent a
nuclear-armed Iran” in a U.N. Security
Council meeting
OPINION: As Iran Picks a
President, a Nuclear Shift - Open
Talk About Building the Bomb
New York Times - David Sanger and
Farnaz Fassihi
June 27, 2024
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Article
Iran has expanded its most sensitive
nuclear production site in recent
weeks. And for the first time, some
leaders are dropping their insistence
that the nuclear program is for
peaceful purposes.
Asia
China won’t rule out
AI-controlled nuclear weapons
The Hill
June 28, 2024
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Article
This month, the White House disclosed
that China has rejected American
proposals to limit the use of
artificial intelligence for
controlling the launch of nuclear
weapons.
66 Percent of S. Koreans
Support Developing own Nuclear
Weapons
Yonhap News
June 27, 2024
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Article
Nearly seven out of every 10 South
Koreans support the idea of their
country having its own nuclear
weapons, with only as few as 15
percent believing that North Korea
will denuclearize, a poll showed
Thursday.
India Chief of Defence Staff:
Our N-trajectory based on ‘no first
use & massive retaliation’
Times of India
June 27, 2024
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Article
Noting that the threat from nuclear
weapons has once again occupied
centerstage in the geopolitical
landscape, Chief of Defence
Staff General Anil Chauhan on
Wednesday said that the “uniqueness”
of India’s nuclear trajectory is
premised on the principle of “no
first-use and massive
retaliation."
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