Can the production of nuclear materials for nuclear weapons be banned?

10 Sep, 2009 12:24 pm An international treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons, referred to by US President Barack Obama on 5 April 2009 in Prague(1)...

Civil plutonium can be used to make effective nuclear weapons

15 Dec, 2008 10:02 pm Can the plutonium recovered from spent civil nuclear-power reactor fuel elements (civil plutonium) be used to fabricate nuclear weapons with significant...

Future War Revisited

21 Nov, 2008 11:18 am Think of a futuristic war scenario where soldiers are firing smart weapons from the confines of their command centres. Weapons that are capable of intercepting...

The security consequences of the nuclear renaissance

11 Nov, 2008 11:03 am On 30 October 2008, the Royal Society, the British academy of science, announced the launch of a major new study looking at whether planetary scale geoengineering...

Iran's Oil Shield Slips

4 Nov, 2008 05:18 pm Between the US election and the gyrations of the financial markets, some important implications of the declining price of oil haven't received the attention...