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	<title>FAS Strategic Security Blog &#187; Alicia Godsberg</title>
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		<title>Change at the United Nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Alicia Godsberg
The First Committee of this year’s 64th United Nations General Assembly (GA) just wrapped up a month of meetings.  The GA breaks up its work into six main committees, and the First Committee deals with disarmament and international security issues.  During the month-long meetings, member states give general statements, debate on such issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CTBT Article XIV Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by: Alicia Godsberg
This past Thursday and Friday marked the 6th bi-annual Article XIV Conference, the Conference on Facilitating the Entry Into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  This year’s conference was held at the United Nations in New York and was met with a measure of cautious optimism – most states voiced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the day, courtesy of Fogbank</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/08/thought-for-the-day-courtesy-of-fogbank.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alicia Godsberg
Yesterday’s Washington Post had another article[1] in the ongoing saga of W76 warhead refurbishment Life Extension Program (LEP) and Fogbank – a material that, according to open sources, is an intermediary material between the primary and secondary of a nuclear weapon that is “crucial” to the weapon reaching its designed yield.[2]  The problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Picture &#8211; what is really at stake with the START follow-on Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alicia Godsberg
There is cause for cautious optimism after Presidents Obama and Medvedev signed their START follow-on Joint Understanding in Moscow last Monday – the goal of completing a legally binding bilateral nuclear disarmament agreement with verification measures is preferable to letting START expire without an agreement or without one that keeps some sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online debate on Russia at The Economist</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/09/online-debate-on-russia-at-the-economist.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/09/online-debate-on-russia-at-the-economist.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting 9 September 08 members of Congress discussed what the U.S. response should be to Russia&#8217;s aggressive actions in Georgia last month.  Most members of the Committee acknowledged that some sort of response was necessary to voice U.S. concerns about the possibility of a more aggressive Russian foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War in Georgia and Repercussions for Nuclear Disarmament Cooperation with Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog post, arguments were discussed from a 12 June 08 meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for and against the signing of a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement (123 Agreement) with Russia. At the time, the most salient issues were our ability to influence Russia’s position vis-à-vis Iran’s nuclear ambitions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPT 40 Years Later and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/07/npt-40-years-later-and-beyond.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/07/npt-40-years-later-and-beyond.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 1968 the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature, codifying for the first time a legally binding obligation to achieve nuclear disarmament. This year marks the 40th anniversary of this historic arms control treaty, to which every state in the United Nations except three has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US – Russia 123 Agreement on the Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/06/us-%e2%80%93-russia-123-agreement-on-the-hill.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/06/us-%e2%80%93-russia-123-agreement-on-the-hill.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, June 12 the House Foreign Relations Committee met for over three hours and heard testimony from members of the Committee, a representative of the Bush administration, and expert witnesses regarding the pros and cons of supporting the Agreement Between the United States and Russia for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act is Good Policy 30 Years On</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/05/nuclear-non-proliferation-act-is-good-policy-30-years-on.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2008/05/nuclear-non-proliferation-act-is-good-policy-30-years-on.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is impossible to entirely separate a civilian nuclear power program from a potential nuclear weapons program. President Bush knows this, which is why he is so concerned about Iran’s nuclear energy program. And this is why our country should not undercut nonproliferation goals by restarting a domestic reprocessing program, now called the Global Nuclear [...]]]></description>
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