The United Arab Emirates appears ready this spring to sign a projected $7 billion agreement to purchase the U.S. Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense missile defense system, Reuters reported on Sunday (see GSN, Dec. 6, 2010).
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Japan should pursue civilian atomic trade with Pakistan in light of the island nation's consideration of such an arrangement with India, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday (see GSN, Feb. 3).
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U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration head Thomas D'Agostino last week praised President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget request for including additional spending on the nation's nuclear weapons complex, but he did not address a Republican-backed budget proposal that would eliminate 10 (Read more...)
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration intends in its fiscal 2012 budget to pour $1.6 billion into eliminating the U.S. chemical weapons arsenal, and observers and insiders said it seemed unlikely that the program would be slowed by the budget-cutting mood (Read more...)
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. official last week signaled that President Obama's goal of securing the world's loose nuclear material is likely to take longer than the four-year time frame he gave shortly after taking office (see GSN, Jan. (Read more...)
I think we need to get off the four-year objective and recognize what its importance was. Its importance was a driver ... it focused attention and it drove actions.
--Partnership for Global Security President Kenneth Luongo, on President Obama's (Read more...)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has directed the formation of a working group to brainstorm ideas for missile defense collaboration with NATO, Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 18).
Participants "will suggest areas of possible missile defense cooperation with NATO (Read more...)
WASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. official last week signaled that President Obama's goal of securing the world's loose nuclear material is likely to take longer than the four-year time frame he gave shortly after taking office (see GSN, Jan. (Read more...)
North Korea is excavating new tunnels at the site where it previously carried out two nuclear test detonations, raising concerns that a third blast could be in the works, Reuters reported on Sunday (see GSN, Feb. 18).
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The German government last week said it would join the United States in abandoning establishment of the MEADS missile defense system, Reuters reported (see GSN, Feb. 15).
The Medium Extended Air Defense System was being jointly funded by the (Read more...)