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The Nuke Review: May 8 – May 14
posted by Bryan Gold on May 15, 2012 at 11:48 am
With the House Armed Services Committee issuing their version of the FY13 NDAA, Pakistan test firing another nuclear-capable missile, and the IAEA meetings with Iran, this past week was a big one for nuclear security news. Keep up to date with these stories and more in this weeks The Nuke Review.
Is There Light at the End of the Nuclear Tunnel?
posted by Bryan Gold on May 8, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Over the past two weeks there have been a series of amazing and promising developments with the Iranian nuclear program and its situation. Beginning with the P5+1-Iran meeting two weeks ago, the American view on Iran’s intractability for dealing with its nuclear program has begun to soften. But it is not clear yet whether or not these negotiations that will take place on the 23rd will do much to achieve a peaceful resolution to this issue.
ASP – What We Are Reading
posted by Paul Hamill on December 14, 2011 at 3:59 pm
What we are reading – news about national security, energy & climate security, nuclear security, American Competitiveness and terrorism & asymmetric warfare
The Problem of Hamid Karzai and Our Mission in Afghanistan
posted by Maria Stohler on June 22, 2011 at 11:18 am
The Afghan President has served as an important symbolic figure and partner in the Afghanistan war, but his continued ridicule of coalition forces may further erode US support for the mission and people Karzai purports to serve. In a speech this past weekend to the Afghanistan Youth International Conference, President Hamid Karzai criticized US and…
Radicals Still at the U.S. Southern Border Nearly a Century Later
posted by Lindsey Ross on December 6, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Immigration reform, a key component of American national security, is not given enough serious attention by today’s policymakers. But as a November 1919 New York Times article makes clear, this is not a new issue. In fact, our southern border has served as a point of illegal entry since the early 1900s. The author writes, The…
Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America's Southern Border
posted by Louis McCoy on August 31, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Washington, D.C., 01 September 2010– The American Security Project today publishes its report on the likely effects of climate change on immigration along the US southern boarder. Dr Jim Ludes, the Executive Director of ASP said: “This report highlights the consequences to the United States, and especially the communities and law enforcement agencies along America’s…
