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Fort Worth Star Telegram
April 28, 2018
... a senior defense analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. "In practice, this statement should enable a U.S.-North Korea summit to detail specifics about what, when, and how denuclearization would occur, but it has not offered a head start on that process. All of the negotiation is left to a U.S. teamÃâà...
ABC 57 News
April 28, 2018
North Korean cheating and US ambivalence has caused the collapse of all previous openings," Adam Mount, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, told CNN. Kim's nuclear arsenal. Officials across the world, especially in the United States, will be paying close attention to any specificÃâà...
New York Times
April 21, 2018
“This reads more like an arms-control offer from a nuclear nation than an isolated regime coerced into disarmament,” said Adam Mount, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists. “It is a carefully circumscribed statement. It describes a partial cap of North Korea's nuclear andÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
April 18, 2018
The US Nuclear Posture Reviews (NPR) are the nation's primary statements of nuclear weapons policy, and each has been debated closely. However, the 2018 NPR is unusual in that it has been subject not only to debate about the rectitude of its policies, but also about what those policies actually are.
CNN
April 18, 2018
"It's strange to see the nominee for Secretary of State come and go from Pyongyang without securing the release of the three Americans imprisoned there," said Adam Mount, senior fellow and director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where he covers US nuclearÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
April 12, 2018
The US Air Force has published new guidance for training military and civilian personnel to maintain nuclear weapons as a career specialty. See Nuclear Weapons Career Field Education and Training Plan, Department of the Air Force, April 1, 2018. An Air Force nuclear weapons specialist “inspects,Ãâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
April 3, 2018
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats recently revised a 2012 Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) on “Civil Liberties and Privacy” to address transparency policy, and reissued it as “Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency.” The revised directive ICD 107 states that “the DNI is committed toÃâà...
NWAOnline
April 3, 2018
Beijing "is reasserting itself, and looking to shape the agenda for the upcoming summits," says Adam Mount of the Federation of American Scientists. Division between Beijing and Pyongyang was a major asset to Trump's pressure campaign. So strengthening those ties would weaken Trump's hand inÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 1, 2018
As a footnote, there are an estimated 14,200 nuclear weapons in the world, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Russia has the largest number at 6,600 active and retired warheads, just slightly larger than the American total. The rest of the world (France, China, Britain, Pakistan, India, IsraelÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
... own summit with North Korea, China has made it clear that it is anything but irrelevant. While South Korea's Moon was in the driver's seat through February and March with North Korea, that period may have come to a close. Ankit Panda is an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American ScientistsÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
March 26, 2018
All non-confidential reports of the Congressional Research Service must be made publicly available online through a Government Publishing Office website within 90 to 270 days under a provision of the 2018 omnibus appropriations act that was passed by Congress and signed by the President last week.
Secrecy News (blog)
March 22, 2018
These figures were declassified in response to a request from the Federation of American Scientists and were made public yesterday. The declassification of the current size of the US nuclear arsenal was a breakthrough in national security transparency that was accomplished for the first time by the ObamaÃâà...
OregonLive.com
March 10, 2018
Adam Mount, a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, said it was "absolutely right to extend the nuclear and missile test pause" declared by Pyongyang during talks last week with the Seoul government. "It will help repair ties with South Korea and keeps us back from the brink of war.".
The Independent Weekly
March 9, 2018
Adam Mount, a senior fellow and director of the Defense Posture Project of the Federation of American Scientists, said North Korea could put a reasonable deal on the table that Trump feels unable to accept. That could lead other regional players—and particularly China—to decide that Pyongyang is notÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
March 8, 2018
In January, the Department of Defense ordered the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) not to publish certain data on areas of Afghanistan that were held by insurgents. “This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time SIGARÃâà...
Economic Times
March 3, 2018
The Soviets are armed. According to data from December 2017 from the Federation of American Scientists, Russia has an estimated inventory of 6,800 nuclear warheads, with 1,710 of them strategically deployed. 1/9. ReutersÃâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
It then avoids spy satellite tracking and military counter strikes. Hans Kristensen, of the Federation of American Scientists, says the Avengard is an ideal fit for the Sarmat heavy-lift intercontinental ballistic missile. “For obvious reasons we cannot show the outer appearance of this system here,” Mr. Putin said.
WUNC
February 28, 2018
In the last Nuclear Posture Review, under the Obama administration in 2010, the number of sites dropped, said Hans Christensen, a nuclear weapons expert with the Federation of American Scientists. Today, the Air Force runs a few bases with bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Wyoming,Ãâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 26, 2018
What I get from a book like Schlosser's, a great book, and even decades before that, Fred Kaplan's book, Wizards of Armageddon, and books like Janne Nolan's excellent book, Guardians of the Arsenal, and work by Scott Sagan, and Hans Kristensen from the Federation of American Scientists—what IÃâà...
Newsweek
February 22, 2018
The document included potential nuclear responses to serious non-nuclear attacks, a new sea-launched nuclear cruise missile and the development of smaller, tactical nuclear weapons that experts have warned may make their use in combat more likely. The Federation of American Scientists, one of theÃâà...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
The remaining B61 bombs are stored at five other locations in four countries: Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, according to the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks the weapons. The NTI report said it “should be assumed that they are targets for terrorism and theft”. The bombs areÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Adam Mount, a senior fellow and the director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, told CNN that there is a whole range of deals that could meet American interests but "in none of them does Kim Jong Un hand over his nuclear arsenal for nothing but an IOU." "Kim JongÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Congressional Research Service recently updated its report on US nuclear weapons and programs. See U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues by Amy F. Woolf, March 6, 2018. That is also the subject of a new survey prepared by Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S.
Secrecy News (blog)
December 31, 1999
The National Archives said last week that it will gather tens of millions of pages of classified historical records from Presidential Libraries around the country and will bring them to Washington, DC for declassification review. “We are making this change to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of theÃâà...
