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		<title>Germany and NATO&#8217;s Nuclear Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Security personnel monitor nuclear weapons transport at German air base. Image: USAF




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The new German government has announced that it wants to enter talks with its NATO allies about the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. nuclear weapons from Germany.
The announcement coincides with the Obama administration’s ongoing Nuclear Posture Review, which is spending an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton On Nuclear Preemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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No preemptive nuclear options, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.




By Hans M. Kristensen
During an interview with Ekho Moskvy Radio last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if “the American [nuclear] doctrine incorporate[s] preemptive nuclear strikes against an aggressor?”
The Secretary’s answer was: “No, no.”
Ahem….
Secretary Clinton’s denial that U.S. nuclear doctrine incorporates preemptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Asks UN De-Alerting Resolution to Wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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President Barack Obama, here shown speaking to the United Nations in September,
is seeking to delay a UN Resolution calling for De-Alerting Nuclear Forces.




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The Obama administration has asked four countries to postpone a resolution at the United Nations calling for reducing the alert-level of nuclear weapons.
The intervention apparently is intended to avoid the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Misses Warhead Retirement Deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Retirement of the W62 warhead, seen here at Warren Air Force Base, has been been delayed.




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The Pentagon has missed the deadline set by the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review for the retirement of the W62 nuclear warhead.
Retirement of the warhead, which arms a portion of the 450 U.S. Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Mystery in Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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The mysterious DF-41 missile did not appear at the Chinese National Day parade on October 1st, but the Chinese Ministry of National Defense says the DF-31A did. But did it, or was it in fact the DF-31?




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By Hans M. Kristensen
The military parade at China’s 60th National Day celebration last week was widely rumored to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani Nuclear Forces 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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A high-security weapons storage area northwest of Karachi appears to be a potential nuclear weapons storage site.  (click image to download larger version)




By Hans M. Kristensen
Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear weapons stockpile now includes an estimated 70-90 nuclear warheads, according to the latest Nuclear Notebook published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The estimate is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Aircraft Carrier Sails Without Nukes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle with air wing on deck.



By Hans M. Kristensen
France no longer deploys nuclear weapons on its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle under normal circumstances but stores the weapons on land, according to French officials.
President Nicolas Sarkozy declared in March 2008 that France “could and should be more transparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department Confirms FAS Warhead Estimate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Retirement of the W62 warhead will be completed in 2009.




By Hans M. Kristensen
The U.S. State Department has confirmed the estimate made by FAS on this blog in February that the United States had already reached the limit of 2,200 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads set by the 2002 Moscow Treaty. The confirmation occurred earlier today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>START Follow-On: What SORT of Agreement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Presidents Obama and Medvedev sign a joint understanding on a START follow-on treaty.




By Hans M. Kristensen
The Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty signed by President Obama and Medvedev on July 6, 2009, commits the United States and Russia to “reduce their strategic warheads to a range of 1500-1675, and their strategic delivery vehicles to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Russia Summit Nuclear Weapons Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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By Hans M. Kristensen
Can they do it? Expectations are high for the July Moscow Summit to produce an agreement to extent the START Treaty and commit to additional nuclear weapons reductions in the future. The following provides quick access to information about nuclear weapons numbers:
Overview of World Nuclear Forces
Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-2006
US and Russian Total [...]]]></description>
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