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... And the Moral Price of Nuclear Peace
First appeared in The Washington Post Aug. 10, 1995
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News & Opinion ~Writing in 1995 as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, CDI President Bruce G. Blair, Ph.D, described how America has drifted rudderless on the currents of Cold War inertia, oblivious to the weak moral underpinnings of its nuclear policy. The slide into the moral dark ages began with the simple fact that the inherent destructiveness of nuclear weapons rendered all countries permanently vulnerable to annihilation and hence permanently insecure.
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Rethinking the Unthinkable
July 28, 2002
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News & Opinion ~The National Park Service is making a monument out of an old nuclear missile site. But how do you interpret history so recent it may not be over yet? Even as our five-decade faceoff with the late, unlamented Union of Soviet Socialist Republics recedes into history and memory — a process greatly accelerated by the shock of September 11 — the Cold War can still generate as many questions as answers. And none are more confounding than those about the "weapons of mass destruction" we deployed. Featuring an interview with CDI President Bruce Blair.
First appeared in The Washington Post July 28, 2002
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Perilous Nuclear Tunnel Vision:
U.S. can breach Iraq's bunkers in other ways
July 16, 2002
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News & Opinion ~ Deep beneath Iraqi soil, armored bunkers protect Saddam Hussein's arsenal of chemical and biological weapons. Bush administration proponents of using tactical nuclear weapons against the bunkers often characterize their position as choosing a lesser evil: Either develop nuclear bunker killers or let Hussein and his cronies hide safely underground with their weapons. This tunnel vision downplays both the consequences of nuclear weapons on the battlefield and the impressive potential of U.S. nonnuclear forces against hardened bunkers. By Michael Levy, Federation of American Scientists, and Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President
First appeared in The Los Angeles Times July 21, 2002
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South Korean Elections and East Asian Security Issues: What Lies Ahead?
July 16, 2002
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News & Opinion ~ A major shift in political power has begun to take place in South Korea which may bring significant changes to the delicate security balance in East Asia. Analysis by Dr. G. Wayne Glass, CDI Senior Advisor.
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Press Conference with Nikolai Zlobin and Ivan Safranchuk, Center for Defense Information Officials, on USA-RF Summit
May 23, 2002
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Analysis by Dr. Nikolai Zlobin, CDI Senior Fellow, and Dr. Ivan Safranchuk, CDI Senior Fellow, of U.S.-Russian Relations and the Bush-Putin Summit.
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Nuclear Time Warp
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
April 8, 2002
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President George W. Bush's new Nuclear Posture Review harks back to the stone age, or at least to the 1950s, when America's most beautiful minds struggled to devise a strategy to deal with the original rogue state — the Soviet Union. The latest exercise to devise a nuclear strategy to neutralize threats of weapons of mass destruction wielded by the 2002-class of rogue states such as Iraq and North Korea is proof that time folds over on itself, and that higher-order nuclear intelligence is as elusive as table-top fusion. This repetition of history isn't funny, but it is dangerous.
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Clinging to Outdated Dogmas
Dr. Ivan Safranchuk, CDI Senior Fellow and Director, CDI Moscow
March 18, 2002
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The three main issues between Russia and the United States in the field of nuclear arms reduction are: the status of any treaty document, the rules for counting (including the so-called shelving of nuclear warheads) and issues of verification and transparency. First appeared in The Moscow Times March 18, 2002.
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National Public Radio's "The Connection" Interviews
CDI President Bruce G. Blair
March 12, 2002
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In a wide-ranging interview on U.S. nuclear policy and the Bush administration's new Nuclear Posture Review, CDI President Bruce G. Blair argues the time may be coming to move more aggressively toward a nuclear free world.
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America Has 2,000 Targets in Russia. Provided the level of relations remains unchanged, it will have only 1,000 a decade from now
March 12, 2002
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Izvestia interview with CDI President Dr. Bruce G. Blair.
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U.S. Nuclear Posture and Alert Status
Post Sept. 11
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
Jan. 28, 2002
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Presentation by CDI President Bruce G. Blair for The Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project and Back From the Brink Proliferation Roundtable Forum, Jan. 28, 2002
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A Call To Disarm
IEEE Spectrum Online Feature Article featuring analysis by
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President.
What made the events of Sept. 11 all the more shocking was the realization that the United States' unparalleled military capabilities — above all, its thousands of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, built up over a half-century at a cost of trillions of dollars and touted as a cornerstone of national security — proved useless, either as a deterrent or as weapons of war.
Jan. 22, 2002
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Bush's Curious Timing:
NPR Reanimates Nuclear Testing Specter
Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President
Jan 22, 2002
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While stopping short of overturning his father's moratorium on nuclear testing, U.S. President George W. Bush has catapulted the testing issue back into the political foreground with the Pentagon's new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). Following the NPR's release, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was at pains to point out that Bush "has not ruled out testing in the future."
First appeared in Defense News
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Citing Terrorism, Groups Urge End of Nukes
From the IPS Daily Journal, Nov. 16, 2001, in PDF format (requires Acrobat Reader)
Terrorist use of nuclear material is likely unless nations take action to reduce the threat of nuclear conflict and rid the world of nuclear weapons, disarmament and medical experts said.
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The Withdrawal of the United States from ABM Treaty: A Failure of Russian Diplomacy or New Opportunities?
Dec. 14, 2001
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Press conference featuring analysis by Dr. Ivan Safranchuk, Director, CDI Moscow.
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Nuclear attack: Now anything seems possible
CNN report featuring analysis by CDI President Dr. Bruce G. Blair.
Nov. 7, 2001
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Nuclear Attack a Real, if Remote, Possibility
Christian Science Monitor article on the possibilities for nuclear terror, including an interview with CDI President Bruce Blair.
Oct. 30, 2001
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Next U.S. Threat — Nuclear Weapons
CNN transcript of broadcast on nuclear terrorism featuring CDI President Bruce Blair.
Oct. 24, 2001
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Elite U.S. Team Works to Keep Nuclear Bombs From Terrorists
Article by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on U.S. special nuclear response (NEST) teams who work to thwart nuclear terrorism, including an interview with CDI President Bruce G. Blair.
Oct. 21, 2001
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The Transformation of Defense and Proliferation Policies after September 11: A Carnegie/CDI Event
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A special conference, featuring CDI President Bruce G. Blair, CDI Senior Fellow John Newhouse, CDI Senior Fellow Rear Adm. (Ret.) Stephen H. Baker, and Frank Hoffman, Former Staff Member, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, among others. Event home page with audio links)
Oct. 24, 2001
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The Ultimate Hatred is Nuclear
Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
First appeared in The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2001.
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What if the Terrorists Go Nuclear?
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
Sept. 26, 2001
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Nuclear Accounting: Kurchatov Responds to the Energy Dept.
July 26, 2001
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Excerpt from a July 26, 2001 response sent by an official at the Kurchatov Institute regarding the U.S. Energy Department's reaction to CDI President Dr. Bruce G. Blair's Op-Ed in the July 11, 2001 issue of the Washington Post
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Nukes: A Lesson From Russia
Dr. Bruce G. Blair, CDI President
July 11, 2001
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Russian experts at the Kurchatov Institute, the renowned nuclear research center in Moscow, recently found what appears to be a critical deficiency in the internal U.S. system for keeping track of all bomb-grade nuclear materials held by the Energy Department — enough material for tens of thousands of nuclear bombs.
First appeared in The Washington Post
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