You are here: HOME > Publications > Stories

CNS Feature Stories

Special articles and reports on timely nonproliferation issues by CNS staff.

Recent Stories

Current Feature Stories

Posted: May 14, 2012 NATO-Russia Disputes and Cooperation on Missile Defense: by Nikolai Sokov; As the 2012 NATO Summit draws near, the lack of agreement between the Alliance and Russia stands in contrast to the promise of the last summit in 2010.
Image: NATO Chicago summit graphic (Src: http://nato.int); See also: Delaying Decisions: NATO's Deterrence and Defense Posture Review
Posted: May 14, 2012 Inflexible Response: by Jon B. Wolfsthal for WMD Junction; An Ohio congressman ignores his own Republican colleagues—and military leaders—and attempts to micromanage the US nuclear arsenal.
Image: Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) (Src: C-SPAN)

2012 Feature Stories

Posted: May 9, 2012 Between Publishing and Perishing?

by Michael Tu

H5N1 research unleashes unprecedented dual-use research controversy.
Image: Scientists studying H5N1 virus (Src: photos.state.gov)

Posted: May 8, 2012 FAQ: The 2012 Middle East Conference

by CNS Staff

A Q&A from CNS experts Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova and Chen Kane highlighting important details about the 2012 Conference.
Image: Map of NWFZs

Updated: May 11, 2011 Comprehensive NPT Resources for the 2012 PrepCom

by CNS Staff

Comprehensive coverage featuring articles and documents related to the NPT Review Process.

Includes 2012 Briefing Book, FAQ, disarmament monitoring reports, experts for commentary, and more.

See also:

New Interactive 2012 PrepCom Site
Introducing a new interactive space for this year's PrepCom, featuring live updates from the PrepCom, visuals on nuclear nonproliferation, and facts and analysis on the NPT Review process. [ Phone/Tablet Friendly ]

Image: M building of the Vienna International Center, location of the NPT PrepCom

Posted: April 27, 2012 FAQ: North Korea's Possible Nuclear Test

by CNS Staff

North Korea appears to be preparing for its third nuclear test. This new FAQ examines details of the possible test and potential ramifications.
Image: Location of Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility (Src: Google Earth)

Updated: April 23, 2012 FAQ: 2012 NPT Review Conference Preparatory Committee

by CNS Staff

CNS has compiled a set of frequently asked questions (FAQ) relating to the PrepCom meeting to be held in Vienna starting April 30, 2012.
Image: M building of the Vienna International Center, location of the NPT PrepCom.

Updated: April 20, 2012 Monitoring Implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan: Disarmament

by Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova

As NPT state parties prepare to meet in Vienna, CNS presents a comprehensive review of implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan's Nuclear Disarmament section.
Image: Report Cover

Now includes executive summary of the report.

Posted: April 10, 2012 FAQ: North Korea's Upcoming Space Launch

by CNS Staff

CNS has compiled an FAQ to keep you informed as North Korea prepares for its upcoming rocket launch.
Image: Sohae Satellite Launching Station (Src: Google Maps)

Posted: March 28, 2012 NPT Briefing Book: 2012 Edition

by CNS Staff

2012 NPT Briefing Book from CNS and King's College, a comprehensive source of materials about the NPT process, is now available.
Image: Austria Center in Vienna, where the NPT PrepCom will be held. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA)

Posted: March 16, 2012 Nuclear Security Summit Resources

by CNS Staff

CNS has compiled a resources page previewing the major issues of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit starting March 26 in Seoul.

See also, "Progress Since the 2010 Washington Nuclear Security Summit" by Miles Pomper and Meghan Warren

Image: 2012 Nuclear Security Summit logo

Posted: March 12, 2012 Fukushima's Impact on Japan's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policy

by Masako Toki

One year after the Fukushima disaster, Japan continues to assess its dependency on nuclear energy.
Image: The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in northeast Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

Posted: March 5, 2012 Paris-Based Banking Group Tightens Rules Against Financing of Banned Weapon of Mass Destruction-Related Transfers

by Javier Serrat and Melissa Hanham

On February 16, 2012, the Financial Action Task Force adopted a new rule to strengthen implementation of UN nonproliferation sanctions.
Image: 1989 Paris summit that created FATF.

Posted: January 18, 2012 Unaccountable: Exploring the Lack of Budgetary Transparency for U.S. Nuclear Security Spending: by Stephen I. Schwartz; The United States has never known exactly what it spends on nuclear weapons and related programs.
Image: Fleet of B-36 Peacemaker bombers

2011 Feature Stories

Posted: December 23, 2011 Avoiding a North Korean Nuclear Nightmare: by Melissa Hanham for WMD Junction; No one knows what policies North Korea's new young leader he will pursue, or what will happen if he is challenged from within.
Image: Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un (Src: AP)
Posted: December 23, 2011 Lucky Number Seven? The 2011 Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference: by Amanda Moodie; The BWC Review Conference adopted a forward-looking document containing a number of proposals to strengthen and improve the Convention.
Image: Paul van den IJssel and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Posted: December 18, 2011 Passing of North Korea's Kim Jong-il: by CNS Staff; DPRK Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il has died. CNS experts on North Korea are available for comment on the impact of Kim's passing.
Image: Kim Jong-il
Posted: December 13, 2011 Teachers Discuss Nuclear Safety and Security at CIF Conference: by Masako Toki; High school teachers from U.S., Russia, and China tackle pressing issues related to nuclear energy.
Image: Participants
Posted: December 2, 2011 Medvedev's Statement on Missile Defense Might Mean Russia Postpones Further Dialogue Until 2013: by Nikolai Sokov; Dmitry Medvedev's recent statement on military responses to missile defense sounds more threatening than it actually is.
Image: Voronezh-DM radar
Posted: November 17, 2011 Q&A on IAEA-Sponsored Forum on NWFZ in the Middle East: by Chen Kane and Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova; Ahead of the IAEA-sponsored forum on a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East, CNS experts provide information on the forum, NWFZs and related issues.
Image: Map of NWFZs
Posted: November 11, 2011 Re-Charting U.S. Government Agencies Involved in Nuclear Policy: by Anya Loukianova; CNS updates its 2009 "U.S. Government Agencies Combating Nuclear Proliferation" chart, showing the complexity of such efforts.
Image: Government Chart
Posted: November 8, 2011 Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond: by CNS Staff; This new book by CNS expert Amy E. Smithson tells the compelling story of how UN inspectors in the 1990s unearthed the true extent of Iraq's bioweapons program.
Image: Germ Gambits cover
Posted: October 14, 2011 Progress Towards a Middle East Zone Free of WMD: by CNS Staff; Finnish Undersecretary of State Jaakko Laajava is named as the Facilitator of the 2012 Middle East Conference. CNS analyzes his role and the prospects for the conference.
Image: Jaakko Laajava
Posted: October 11, 2011 Short Course on Nonproliferation & Disarmament Held in Vienna: by VCDNP Staff; VCDNP and CNS conducted their first intensive course on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament for diplomats in Vienna.
Image: Course attendees
Posted: September 23, 2011 Contagion: A Movie Pandemic Versus the Reality of Public Health: by Raymond A. Zilinskas for WMD Junction; A professional in the real-life fight against emerging infectious diseases evaluates Contagion's dramatic, but not exactly accurate, portrayal of a rapidly unfolding global pandemic.
Image: Contagion movie poster
Posted: September 22, 2011 Can Libya be Locked Down?: by Bilal Y. Saab for WMD Junction; In a post-Qaddafi era, who will secure Libya's chemical and biological weapons materials?
Image: Former Libyan CW production facility at Rabta [Src: GeoEye]
Posted: September 20, 2011 Bringing Belarus Back to the Table: by Miles Pomper for WMD Junction; Belarus is using its stock of highly enriched uranium as political leverage; how can Washington persuade Minsk to let go of its HEU?
Image: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
Posted: September 15, 2011 CNS and VCDNP Scholars Provide Insights on IAEA General Conference: by CNS Staff; In the lead up to this month's General Conference, CNS and VCDNP have prepared a series of Fact Sheets on the key issues that will be discussed.
Image: Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria
Posted: September 12, 2011 International Task Force Takes Aim at Illicit Proliferation Funding: by Javier Serrat for WMD Junction; An intergovernmental group is sharpening global financial controls to prevent the financing of WMD proliferation and terrorism.
Image: 1989 Paris summit that created FATF
Posted: August 22, 2011 New Questions About the FBI's Anthrax Case: Valid Concerns or Red Herring?: by Jonathan B. Tucker for WMD Junction; Was specialized equipment necessary to make the deadly powder used in the 2001 letter attacks, and, if not, what does that say about the ability of terrorists to perpetrate such attacks in the future?
Image: Envelopes containing anthrax spores, Sep-Oct 2001
Posted: July 26, 2011 US-French Nuclear Cooperation: Stretching the Limits of National Strategic Paradigms: by Bruno Tertrais for WMD Junction; Newly declassified documents illuminate the nuclear collaboration between Washington and Paris—and reinforce that the US-India nuclear deal is a very different type of partnership.
Image: Presidents Nixon and Pompidou, 1973
Posted: July 22, 2011 Carmageddon: How Californians Learned to Stop Driving and Love the Bomb: by Benoît Pelopidas for WMD Junction; What a traffic jam that wasn't teaches us about the credibility of nuclear threats.
Image: 'The Last Washington Painting,' © by Alan Sonneman
Posted: July 1, 2011 House Committee Adopts Tough New Rules for Nuclear Trade Agreements: by Cole J. Harvey for WMD Junction; A proposed law would require more intensive inspections, strict export control systems, and proven nonproliferation credentials.
Image: United States Capitol
Posted: May 24, 2011 CNS Launches WMD Junction: by Stephen I. Schwartz; WMD Junction aims to provide a respected outlet for a wide range of timely and thoughtful commentary that cannot await the publication cycles of peer-reviewed journals.
Image: WMD Junction home page
Posted: May 16, 2011 American, Chinese, and Russian High School Students Discuss Solutions to Nuclear Challenges in the Middle East: by Masako Toki; The semester-long CIF program concluded with a successful students conference on April 28-29 in Monterey where students from three countries presented their findings on nuclear issues in the Middle East.
Image: Tsinghua High School students
Updated: May 6, 2011 Obama Seeks Senate OK for Protocols to Two Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaties: by Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova and Miles Pomper; Now up for ratification fifteen years after their signing, these two protocols are likely to face Republican opposition.
Image: Map of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
Updated: April 21, 2011 CNS Newly Opened Vienna Center Gets Executive Director, Hosts Meetings on Nuclear Security: by CNS staff; April has been an eventful first month for the newly opened Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, including appointment of a new executive director.
Image: William Potter and Elena Sokova
Posted: March 1, 2011 The Egyptian Revolution and the Future of WMD in the Middle East: Q&A With Nabil Fahmy: by CNS staff; CNS expert Nabil Fahmy on potential implications of the Egyptian revolution on nonproliferation in the Middle East.
Image: Protester holding Egyptian flag
Updated: March 8, 2011 New Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Managed by CNS Opens in Vienna: by MIIS staff; The new center will serve as an international hub for discussions among representatives of civil society, national governments, and international organizations regarding nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament issues.
Image: Yukiya Amano, William Potter, Michael Spindelegger, Sunder Ramaswamy, Tibor Tóth; See also: IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano Welcomes VCDNP.
Posted: February 15, 2011 A Second Sighting of Russian Tactical Nukes in Kaliningrad: by Nikolai Sokov; Russian tactical nuclear weapons appear to have a curious propensity to surface with some regularity in Kaliningrad oblast.
Image: Iskander, a new Russian short-range missile
Posted: February 4, 2011 As New START Enters into Force, Challenges Ahead Are Even More Challenging: by Nikolai Sokov; The U.S. and Russia are expected to launch the next stage of reduction negotiations, but even setting the agenda is an almost insurmountable obstacle.
Image: Chief negotiators of New START: Rose Gottemoeller and Anatoli Antonov
Posted: February 3, 2011 MIIS Student Negotiators Also Sign New U.S.-Russian Arms Control Treaty: by Daniel Painter and Leo Naboyshchikov; In Fall 2010, 22 Monterey Institute students from nine countries participated in a simulation that negotiated a follow-on agreement to the New START.
Image: Arms control negotiation simulation class
Posted: January 25, 2011 New Start Ratification in Russia: Apparent Smooth Sailing Obscures Submerged Drama and Revelations: by Nikolai Sokov; The Duma's resolution on New START was shaped to balance the one adopted by the U.S. Senate. The votes in both countries suggest that further nuclear arms reductions will not be a trivial task.
Image: Duma voter
Posted: January 18, 2011 US-China Summit Visit Offers Opportunity to Discuss Nuclear Issues: by Jeffrey Lewis; As Hu Jintao visits the US this week, President Obama has a unique opportunity to move forward disarmament agenda.
Image: Presidents Hu and Obama

View More Stories

<< View 2010 Stories

Browse All CNS Content By Topic

Subject
Chem/Bio · Missiles/Space · Nuclear · Policy/Law · Terrorism · Testimony · Treaties/Regimes

Region
Americas · East Asia · Middle East/Africa · NIS/Russia · South Asia

Country
Iran · Iraq · North Korea

Publication
Feature Stories · Nonproliferation Review · Inventory · WMD Junction · Occasional Papers · Staff Books · Multimedia

Archived Publication
Observer · WMD Insights

CNS Flagship Publications

The Nonproliferation Review (NPR): The NPR is a refereed journal concerned with the spread of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons. Featuring viewpoints, articles and reports on programs, treaties and export controls, terrorism, and the economic and environmental effects of weapons proliferation.
WMD Junction: WMD Junction aims to provide a respected outlet for a wide range of timely & thoughtful commentary that cannot await the publication cycles of peer-reviewed journals.
The Inventory: The Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes is a regularly-updated public reference covering all international organizations, treaties, and agreements relevant to WMD disarmament & nonproliferation.

"Vienna+Geneva" e-Newsletter

A newsletter devoted to nonproliferation/disarmament activities of Europe-based international organizations.

Google+

VCDNP on Google+

Facebook

CNS on Facebook

VCDNP on Facebook

RSS Feeds

Nonproliferation Updates

Upcoming Events

CNS Student Information

Twitter

James Martin Center For
Nonproliferation Studies
460 Pierce Street
Monterey, CA 93940 USA

Phone: +1 (831) 647-4154
Fax: +1 (831) 647-3519
E-mail: cns@miis.edu
Web: http://cns.miis.edu

Offices
Monterey, CA (Main office)
Washington, D.C.
Vienna, Austria (VCDNP)

Copyright © 2012 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). All rights reserved.

Policy on Reproduction of Website Materials

Airset