by Magnus Newth | Apr 17, 2013 | Monitor
Senator Bob Corker, ranking republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today on China’s unwillingness to pressure its troublesome ally, North Korea. Puzzled by what he sees as Chinese indifference to North Korean...
by Magnus Newth | Apr 16, 2013 | Monitor
On Monday, April 15, ASP was honored to welcome former Ambassador and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Linton Brooks, for an event titled “The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent: A Conversation with Amb. Linton Brooks.”...
by Magnus Newth | Apr 2, 2013 | Monitor
The current North Korea crisis shows no sign of abating. The regime’s recent announcement that it is resuming production at the Yongbyon nuclear facility demonstrates Pyongyang’s persistent ambitions towards a nuclear capability. The plant, capable of making weapons...
by Kaitlyn Huppmann | Mar 15, 2013 | Monitor
Iran Nuclear Weapon to Take Year or More, Obama Says Michael D. shear & David E. Sanger / The New York Times President Obama told an Israeli television station on Thursday that his administration believed it would take Iran “over a year or so” to develop a nuclear...
by Robert Beckhusen | Mar 14, 2013 | Monitor
The Air Force wants to upgrade its aging nuclear missiles and the hundreds of underground silos that hold them. One idea it’s exploring: the construction of a mobile doomsday train.