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Report: U.S. Might Cancel Russia Summit Amid Rising Tensions

July 19, 2013

The White House might drop plans for President Obama to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this year as ties grow frosty between Washington and Moscow, government insiders said for a Thursday New York Times report.
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GOP Lawmaker Calls for North Korea to be Redesignated Terrorism Sponsor

February 14, 2013

WASHINGTON -- A senior Republican lawmaker has submitted legislation to have North Korea redesignated a state sponsor of terrorism as punishment for the nation's Tuesday nuclear test.
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Russia Foresees Maintaining Land-Based ICBMs Over Long-Term

November 2, 2012

The Russian military predicts a long future for the land-based component of its strategic nuclear triad, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday.
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European Nuclear Base Security Tightened Over Years, U.S. Brass Says

September 20, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Security at European bases where U.S. tactical nuclear weapons are stored has tightened in recent years, heightening confidence that they would not be vulnerable to intrusions of the kind seen at a Tennessee atomic facility in July, an Air Force general said on Tuesday.
NTI News

New Book Chronicles Shultz-Perry-Kissinger-Nunn Initiative

January 3, 2012

Award-winning journalist Philip Taubman tells the intimate story of five men—George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, and Stanford physicist Sidney Drell—and their campaign to reduce the threat of a nuclear attack and, ultimately, eliminate nuclear weapons altogether.
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Nuclear Fears Fuel GOP Debate on U.S. Aid to Pakistan

November 23, 2011

WASHINGTON -- Fear that terrorists might gain access to Pakistani nuclear weapons played into a Tuesday clash between Republican presidential hopefuls over whether the United States should continue providing economic and security assistance to the South Asian state (see GSN, Nov. 18).
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U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Iran, but Strongest Weapon Remains Unused

November 22, 2011

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a sweeping new set of sanctions against Iran, but the White House held off on directly targeting Iran’s central bank, a hard-hitting move that would damage Iran’s economy but risk sending global oil prices skyrocketing and sparking potentially violent Iranian retaliation (see GSN, Nov. 21).
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Nuclear Tipping Point: A Teacher's Guide

October 1, 2011

Lesson plans and worksheets for high school students, developed in conjunction with the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Opinion

NATO, Nuclear Security and the Terrorist Threat

November 16, 2010

In an op-ed published by the International Herald Tribune, Senator Nunn urges NATO and Russia to adopt a series of steps that will improve the security of tactical nuclear weapons now, and pave the way for further consolidation, reduction and elimination of these weapons throughout the Euro-Atlantic zone.
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Bush Officials Intent Early on Iraq Invasion, Papers Suggest

September 23, 2010

Recently released documents indicate that the Bush administration was considering war with Iraq years before the March 2003 invasion, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (see GSN, June 2).
Report

Securing the Bomb 2010: Securing All Nuclear Materials in Four Years

April 1, 2010

Securing the Bomb 2010, commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, finds that, in order to meet the four-year objective President Obama set in Prague in April 2009, global leaders must shift global nuclear security effort into a faster and broader trajectory.
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Bush Did Not Intentionally Mislead U.S. on Iraqi WMD, Ex-Adviser Says

March 3, 2010

Former President George W. Bush did not intentionally provide misinformation to the U.S. populace on prewar Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, ex-presidential adviser Karl Rove wrote in a memoir to be released next week (see GSN, May 15, 2009).

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