Nonproliferation

Government Resources

• Nuclear Posture Review- Excerpts from the classified report to Congress. Posted March 14, 2002 by www.globalsecurity.org
• DoD Briefing on the Nuclear Posture Review, 9 January 2002
• Briefing Slides
• Cover Letter Forwarding the NPR to Congress (pdf)

Testimony

• Joseph Cirincione, "A Deeply Flawed Review," Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 16 May 2002
• Senator Carl Levin, "Results of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review," Senate Armed Services Committee, 14 February 2002
• Senator Daniel Akaka, "Results of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review," Senate Armed Services Committee, 14 February 2002
• Undersecretary of Defense Policy Douglas Feith,"Results of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review," Senate Armed Services Committee, 14 February 2002 (pdf)
• Commander in Chief-United States Strategic Command Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. USN, "Results of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review," Senate Armed Services Committee, 14 February 2002 (pdf)
• National Nuclear Security Administrator General John A. Gordon, USAF (Ret.), "Results of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review" Senate Armed Service Committee, 14 February 2002 (pdf)
  

Reports and Publications

• Fire In The Hole: Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Options For CounterproliferationA New Carnegie Working Paper by Michael Levi comparing the potential of new nuclear weapons with that of innovative non-nuclear weapons, demonstrating that proponents of tactical nuclear weapons have consistently overestimated their destructive potential while underestimating the battlefield problems they would pose.
• Nuclear Weapons Page- Reports and Resources Concerning Low-Yield/"Bunker Buster" Nuclear Weapons
• "Briefing Book on the Bush-Putin Summit and the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review," Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, May 2002
• Planning to be Surprised: The US Nuclear Posture Review and its Implications for Arms Control," by Mark Bromley, BASIC Paper #39, April 2002
• "Our Dangerous New Nuclear Posture Review" by Thomas Graham, Jr. and Damien J. LaVera, Lawyers Alliance for World Security, March 2002
• "Faking Nuclear Restraint: The Bush Administration's Secret Plan For Strengthening U.S. Nuclear Forces" Natural Resouces Defense Council, 13 February 2002
• "Parsing the Nuclear Posture Review," an ACA Panel Discussion with Daryl Kimball, Janne Nolan and Rose Gottemoeller, January 2002
• Rationale and Requirements for U.S. Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, National Institute for Public Policy, January 2001 (pdf)
• Video excerpt from the 2001 Carnegie Non-Proliferation Conference Dr. Scott Sagan, Co-Director of Stanford's Center on International Security and Cooperation discusses the Nuclear Posture Review and the use of nuclear weapons to deter chemical and biological weapons.

Listen to Dr. Sagan's entire presentation ( file requires RealPlayer)

Articles

• "House Discusses Nuclear Testing," Associated Press, 21 March 2002
• "Think Anew About US Nukes," Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed by Peter Scoblic, 19 March 2002
• "Bush Finds That Ambiguity Is Part of Nuclear Deterrence" New York Times, 18 March 2002
• "China Accuses U.S. of 'Nuclear Blackmail'," Reuters, 16 March 2002
• "Old-Fashioned Hide-Outs Fuel High-Tech Weaponry," Los Angeles Times, 17 March 2002
• "US Lowers Nuclear Barriers" Asia Times Op-Ed by Ehsan Ahrari, 15 March 2002
• "Nuclear Warhead Study Aims at Buried Targets, " Washington Post, 15 March 2002
• "Nuclear Alarmists," Washington Post Op-Ed by Richard Sokolsky and Eugene Rumer, 15 March 2002
• "Bush Puts Nuclear Use in 'Options Available'," Los Angeles Times, 15 March 2002
• "The Real Problems With Our Nuclear Posture," New York Times Op-Ed by Andrew Krepinevich, 14 March 2002
• "Nuclear Plan Changes Calculus of Deterrence" Chrisitan Science Monitor, 14 March 2002
• "Nuts About Nukes," Washington Post Op-Ed by Mary McGrory, 14 March 2002
• "The Nuclear Posture," Washington Post, 13 March 2002
• "North Korea Hits Out at U.S. Nuclear Arms Review," Reuters, 13 March 2002
• "Russia Questions US Nuclear Targeting" Associated Press, 13 March 2002
• "A Twisted Posture," Boston Globe Editorial, 12 March 2002
• "Nuclear Use as 'Option' Clouds Issue," Los Angeles Times, 12 March 2002
• "America as Nuclear Rogue" New York Times Editorial, 12 March 2002
• "Bush's Stealth Policy on N-arms" Boston Globe Op-Ed by Thomas Oliphant, 12 March 2002
• "'Rogue' Nations Policy Builds on Clinton's Lead," Washington Post, 12 March 2002
• "Nuclear Plan Meant to Deter," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2002
• "U.S. Tries to Dampen Fear Abroad on Policy" New York Times, 11 March 2002
  
  New Nuclear Weapon Articles
  
  
• "On Nukes, We Need to Talk," Washington Post Op-Ed by Rose Gottemoeller, 2 April 2002
• "Pressure for Nuclear Testing Likely on Bunker Buster, Expert Says " Global Security Newswire, 29 March 2002
• "Nuclear Daydreams and the Pentagon," Baltimore Sun, 28 March 2002
• "Nix the Mini-Nukes" Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed by Henry Kelly and Michael Levi, 28 March 2002
• "Nuclear Security Chief Explains New Bunker Buster" Associated Press, 19 March 2002
• "Nuclear Arms Scientists May Lack 'Sense Of Mission'" USA Today, 18 March 2002
• "Nuclear Arsenal Upgrade Planned"USA Today, 18 March 2002
• "Nuclear Warhead Study Aims at Buried Targets" Washington Post, 15 March 2002
• "Mini-Nukes vs. Bio-Bombs " Christian Science Monitor, 13 March 2002
• "Call for New Breed of Nuclear Arms Faces Hurdles" New York Times, 11 March 2002
  
• "United States: DOE Requests Study on Nuclear "Bunker Busters" Global Security Newswire, 11 February 2002
• "New Nukes" Washington Post, 23 April 2001
• "Scientists Take Aim At Low-Yield Nukes" United Press International, 18 April 2001
• "Tiny Nukes--Same Old Story?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 25 July 2000