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		<title>End of the B53 Era; Continuation of the Spin Era</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/end-of-the-b53-era.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Colten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hans Kristensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Colten and Hans Kristensen [Modifed] Today, one of the largest weapons in the United States nuclear weapons arsenal, the B53, will be dismantled at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. Developed during the Cold War and deployed in 1962, this bomb weighs as much as a minivan and has an explosive yield of nine megatons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20th Anniversary of START</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/07/20th-anniversary-of-start.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 31st is the 20-year anniversary of signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty, also known as START I, marked the beginning of a treaty-based reduction of U.S. and Soviet (later Russian) strategic nuclear forces after the end of the Cold War. START I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; November 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/12/missile-watch-november-2010.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/12/missile-watch-november-2010.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man-portable Air Defense Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Schroeder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arms Sales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<title>Report reveals $11.7 billion in arms deliveries in 2009, but sheds little light on individual exports</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/08/report-reveals-11-7-billion-in-arms-deliveries-in-2009-but-sheds-little-light-on-individual-exports.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/08/report-reveals-11-7-billion-in-arms-deliveries-in-2009-but-sheds-little-light-on-individual-exports.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/?p=3433</guid>
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		<title>New Study Examines Global Trade in Ammunition</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/06/new-study-examines-global-trade-in-ammunition.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/06/new-study-examines-global-trade-in-ammunition.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global trade in ammunition for small arms and light weapons is worth an estimated $4.3 billion, according to a comprehensive new study released today. Findings from the study, which is co-authored by Matt Schroeder of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), appears as a chapter in Small Arms Survey 2010: Gangs, Groups, and Guns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Defense Department sold more than $15 billion in arms in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, report reveals</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/u-s-defense-department-sold-more-than-15-billion-in-arms-in-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year-2009-report-reveals.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/u-s-defense-department-sold-more-than-15-billion-in-arms-in-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year-2009-report-reveals.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Schroeder Arms sold by the Defense Department to foreign recipients totaled more than $15 billion in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, according to a report obtained by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The quarterly report, which is dated February 2009 and is required by Section 36(a) of the Arms Export [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is The US Prepared For Bioweapons Decontamination?</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/is-the-us-prepared-for-bioweapons-decontamination.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/is-the-us-prepared-for-bioweapons-decontamination.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biosecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by the UPMC Center for Biosecurity suggests that the US remains unprepared for the task of decontaminating the site of a major biological weapon attack.  Decontamination after the comparatively small-scale Anthrax attacks of 2001 is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, while shuttering some facilities for as long as two years.  By comparison, the costs of a larger scale attack on a major city could be staggering.]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Briefing on Biological Weapon Threats</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/capitol-briefing-on-biological-weapon-threats.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/capitol-briefing-on-biological-weapon-threats.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biosecurity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A March 19th briefing at the US Capitol brought together a panel of experts to discuss the threat of biological weapons.  The briefing, titled “Deterring Biological Threats”, was hosted by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and focused heavily on the historical records of the destructive potential of the Cold War bioweapons programs in the US and the USSR.  With more modern threats, such as Al Qaeda’s well-documented search for Anthrax, the amount of interest in biological attacks appears to be increasing.  The means of actually deterring and preventing these biological threats remain less clear.]]></description>
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		<title>New Industry Biosecurity Conference To Host Experts from Government, Academia</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/new-industry-biosecurity-conference-to-host-experts-from-government-academia.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/new-industry-biosecurity-conference-to-host-experts-from-government-academia.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allen Dodson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biosecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A tight funding environment for academic research, coupled with rapid technological advances, has created an environment where innovation will increasingly occur in industry and at start-up companies.  Regulation in new fields, such as synthetic biology, trails the cutting edge of research, creating an extra need for industry to be involved in the discussion surrounding biosecurity.

A new conference hopes to fill this role by bringing top Administration and Agency officials directly to the site of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) annual meeting.  ]]></description>
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		<title>CTBT ratification and fact-twisting arguments</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/ctbt-ratification-and-fact-twisting-arguments.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/ctbt-ratification-and-fact-twisting-arguments.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia Godsberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alicia Godsberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arms control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CTBT]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Alicia Godsberg On Friday, February 5 the EastWest Institute (EWI) held a seminar at their office in New York to discuss its recently released report on the CTBT, entitled, “The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: New Technology, New Prospects?” Speaking at the event for the pro-CTBT ratification camp was Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr. (Director, [...]]]></description>
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