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Asking the proper question

The question to ask is not whether North Korea has exported petroleum in the past, but whether North Korea has excess refining capacity. Sending oil to be refined in North Korea may be expensive and inefficient, but the option could come in handy in the case of a UN embargo. That in itself could be more important to Iran than yet another arms deal.


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New START: One year later
With the anniversary of New START's entry into force, it's time for an examination of the treaty's successes, future opportunities, and the hurdles nuclear arms reductions still face, writes Kingston Reif in a new article published in the Bulletin of the ...

US weapons for future include key relics of the past
The Associated Press' Robert Burns wrote an article entitled "US weapons for future include key relics of the past" that features the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation's Laicie Olson discussing the 2013 Defense Budget....

Pentagon Budget: Forced To Diet On Only $613 Billion
The Associated Press' Robert Burns wrote an article entitled "US weapons for future include key relics of the past" that features the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation's Laicie Olson discussing the 2013 Defense Budget....

Are ambitious Life Extension Programs on Hold?
The B61 life extension program has come under increasing scrutiny. And for good reason writes Nickolas Roth in this new analysis....

Missile Defense Intercepts in Space: A problem not solved
A recent report by the Defense Science Board concludes that U.S. missile defenses are still unable to discriminate between an incoming missile and decoys or countermeasures designed to confound the system, writes Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (USA, ret.) in this n...