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Also Try Homeland Security Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Power News -04-10-08 Drug Seems to Counter Radiation (Time.com) "Scientists mimicked one of cancer's sneaky tricks to create a drug that promises to prevent a serious side effect of cancer treatment — radiation damage — or offer an antidote during a nuclear emergency." 04-08 News on Nuclear Threat of North Korea (CNN) Provides news stories related to North Korea's nuclear threat. 2-03 Papers Bush Developing a Policy of Striking First (Washington Post - Ricks and Loeb) "The Bush administration is developing a new strategic doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons." A first-strike military policy is a massive change over the policy of the past 50 years. 6-02 Dirty Bombs - Treatment With Potassium Iodide (Washington Post) "Potassium iodide would be helpful only if a dirty bomb used radioactive iodine instead of other radioactive substances, and then only for people close to the explosion." "Experts say a dirty bomb would probably use a substance other than radioactive iodine." 6-02 Editorial - Civil Rights and Dirty Bombs (International Herald Tribune) Argues that terrorism should be fought without suspending the civil rights of Americans. 6-02 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (Time - Karon) "Two weeks ago, North Korea vindicated Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S." 12-02 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org - Pulcifer) "The Bush administration has spun North Korea's admission of enriching uranium into an unexpected and ghastly act. For anyone familiar with the United States' dealings with North Korea, it is surprising Pyongyang hasn't made such a move earlier." 12-02 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org) "North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system." 12-02 Glossary - Nuclear Energy Safety Glossary (International Atomic Energy Agency) Provides technical definitions of terms related to nuclear energy and nuclear contamination. (In addition to use of biological and chemical weapons, some terrorists have shown an interest in using conventional bombs to contaminate areas with nuclear radiation.) 12-01 Images of Nuclear Bomb Detonations (Michaellight.net) Provides 15 images of detonations, such as the Yankee, a bomb that had a 51 mile-wide cloud and rose to 110,000 feet. 10-04 Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Doctrine (FreeDictionary.com) A cold war doctrine where an attack by one side assured the destruction of both nations, and perhaps life on earth. 10-05 National Missile Defense - Bush to Deploy Missile Defense System in 2004 (Bloomberg - Cappacio) "President George W. Bush ordered the Pentagon to begin deploying the first elements of a missile defense system by 2004." Such systems are designed to combat weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear bombs. 12-02 National Missile Defense - Global Nuclear Arsenel (BBC News) Describes how many nuclear warheads each country has and the distance it can deliver them. 7-01 Nuclear Arms Treaty to Reduce USA and Russian Stockpiles (BBC News) Russia and the USA will sign a treaty to reduce nuclear stockpiles. "The two leaders hope to cut the number of nuclear warheads on each side from their current levels of between 6,000 and 7,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200 over the next 10 years." 5-02 Nuclear Risks Grow (Independent - Popham) "At least as damaging as North Korea's departure [from the non-proliferation ban] have been successive moves by Washington to distance itself from nuclear disarmament." "In the run-up to the Iraq war, the US President, George Bush, signed National Security Presidential Directive 17, which said: 'The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force – including potentially nuclear weapons....' " "This assertion, analysts say, undermined...the so-called 'negative security assurances'...not to use nuclear weapons against the non-nuclear weapon states." "The assurances were considered vital in discouraging states from developing their own nuclear weapons.""More and more states are likely to buy the argument that the only way to be secure in a unipolar world is to go down the nuclear road – 'to pre-empt pre-emption', one analyst said." 4-03 View - U.S. Increasing Reliance on Nuclear Weapons (NRDC) "The logic and assumptions underlying the administration's hostility to arms control, and its infatuation with nuclear weapons, deserve vigorous public scrutiny and debate. Not since the resurgence of the Cold War in Ronald Reagan's first term has there been such an emphasis on nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy." 6-03 View - U.S. Not a Nuclear Threat (U.S. Department of State Sokolsky) "Arms control advocates are sounding the alarm over recent press reports about the Bush administration's new nuclear posture review, which calls for developing nuclear plans and capabilities to deter or defend against nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attacks not only by Russia and China but also by Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Libya." "The critics of the nuclear review claim that increasing the number of instances in which the United States might consider using nuclear weapons could well make their use more likely and is liable to stimulate further proliferation of such weapons." "These arguments do not stand up under scrutiny. In fact, the Bush administration deserves praise for its candor in dealing with the security dilemmas posed by the post-Cold War strategic environment. The United States is right to redefine the requirements of deterrence in order to meet new threats to its security, its forces abroad and its allies." 6-03

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