User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Nuclear proliferation (a webliography)

Nuclear proliferation (a webliography) is a non-comprehensive collection of potentially useful resources related to the general topic presented in reverse chronological order of events.

Reverse chronological order

 * An October 28, 2017 article in the New York Times reported that, "nuclear experts, including American intelligence agencies, judge that the North [Korea] has indeed succeeded in making its nuclear arms small enough to fit atop an ICBM. The article cited Joshua H. Pollack, a "leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, focusing on Northeast Asia" and editor of The Nonproliferation Review. Pollack said that "Any country that has conducted five nuclear tests can probably do it...I give them the benefit of the doubt.” The article also cited, Donald MacKenzie, author of the award-winning book entitled Inventing Accuracy. By 2017, "Highly advanced states that have worked on the problem for decades can launch ICBMs whose warheads will hit target areas roughly 200 meters wide – “an astonishing technical achievement."
 * A September 3, 2017 article in the The New York Times, reported that North Korea may already have an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). "American intelligence agencies estimate that the North could reach the milestone by [2018], and some experts think it already has."
 * On August 18, 2017, an article entitled "How North Korea makes its missiles," was published by Joshua H. Pollack, a "leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, focusing on Northeast Asia" and editor of The Nonproliferation Review.
 * March 16, 2017 Joshua H. Pollack. “Is Crisis Stability Still Achievable?” Forum on Physics and Society.
 * In early July 2017, North Korea claimed for the first time to have tested successfully an ICBM capable of carrying a large thermonuclear warhead.
 * January 2017 "Missile Defense, Extended Deterrence, and Nonproliferation in the 21st Century" A collection of papers edited by Catherine Kelleher January 2017
 * In a January 2017 article entitled "Ballistic Missile Defense in South Korea: Separate Systems Against a Common Threat" published in "Missile Defense, Extended Deterrence, and Nonproliferation in the 21st Century" Pollack He described advances in the South Korea's L-SAM as "an upper-tier interceptor for a layered defense, as part of the Korean Air and Missile Defense project, slated to be ready in the early 2020s, with the lower tier composed of Patriot PAC-3 and KM-SAM batteries.
 * March 2016 Joshua H. Pollack. “Elimination of weapons of mass destruction: lessons from the last quarter-century,” The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 23, No. 1-2.
 * January 2017 In an article entitled "Seeing Missile Defense as U.S. Hostility, North Korea Aims at More and Better Weapons" by Naoko Aoki as part of the "Missile Defense, Extended Deterrence, and Nonproliferation in the 21st Century" publication, Aoki said, "North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have spurred Japan and South Korea to develop their own ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems and to regenerate their interest in regional missile defense cooperation with the United States...[While Pyongyang likely does not believe that it is the region’s sole target for U.S. and allied BMD, it feels deeply threatened by its deployment. Existing and potential BMD systems have not discouraged Pyongyang from building its own missiles. Rather, North Korea is accelerating its efforts to improve and expand its missile arsenal to develop a survivable force, likely perceiving BMD systems as part of an overall U.S. strategy that is hostile to Pyongyang."


 * In September 2016, Nonproliferation Review published a special edition which published the results U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency-funded project. This project aimed to "identify lessons learned from efforts to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) around the world." Edited version of papers presented at the November 2015 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies workshop in Washington, DC, were included in the report. One section of the report covered "cross-cutting themes, including the strategic, diplomatic, legal, technical, and inter- and intra-agency dimensions of elimination." The introduction by Chen et al was entitled Elimination of weapons of mass destruction: lessons from the last quarter-century.


 * In November 2015 a workshop was hosted by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC. Edited versions of papers presented were published in September 2016 in a special edition of the Nonproliferation Review.


 * September 2015. Joshua H. Pollack. “Boost-glide Weapons and US-China Strategic Stability,” The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, September 2015.


 * An August 1, 2014 article in The Telegraph reported that China had announced that the range of their "newest generation of ICBM", had expanded to 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles). Called the Dongfeng-41 (DF-41), it was capable of reaching the United States. Some analysts believed at that time that is was capable of being outfitted with MIRV technology.


 * January 31, 2014. Joshua H. Pollack reported that North Koreans had restarted the "graphite-moderated reactor at Yongbyon, expand[ed] the enrichment facility there, and [had taken] steps toward fielding the KN-08 road-mobile ICBM" in “North Korea and the United States: Diplomacy at an Impasse. He also cited the January 2014 communication by the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community that North Korea's "nuclear and missile programs" posed a "serious threat to the United States and to the security environment in East Asia."


 * October 31, 2013. Zachary Kallenborn and Raymond A. Zilinskas, "[www.nti.org/analysis/articles/disarming-syria-its-chemical-weapons-lessons-learned-iraq-and-libya Disarming Syria of its Chemical Weapons: Lessons Learned from Iraq and Libya]" CNS Issue Brief, Nuclear Threat Initiative.


 * January 2012 Norman Cigar, “Libya's Nuclear Disarmament: Lessons and Implications for Nuclear Proliferation,” MES Monographs No. 2, Marine Corps University,cited in Bleek etal 2012.


 * In the January/February 2012 article in Playboy, Joshua H. Pollack described the rise and fall of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program.
 * 2011 Benjamin K. Sovacool's book Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy was published by World Scientific.
 * July 2011. Joshua H. Pollack. “Ballistic Trajectory: The Evolution of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Market,” The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, July 2011.
 * September 2010. Joshua H. Pollack. “China’s Acquisition of Strategic Weapons,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency, September 2010.


 * June 2010. Joshua H. Pollack. “Enhancing Public Resilience to Mass-Casualty WMD Terrorism in the United States Definitions, Challenges, and Recommendations,” co-authored with Jason Wood, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, June 2010.
 * July 2009. Joshua H. Pollack. “Emerging Strategic Dilemmas in U.S.-Chinese Relations,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
 * January 2009 Joshua H. Pollack. “Evaluating Conventional Prompt Global Strike,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January


 * "Between the fall of 2007 and the summer of 2009, 13 companies [in the United States] applied for construction and operating licenses to build 25 new reactors, including units of Southern, Scana Corp, Exelon, Duke Energy, NRG Energy, Progress Energy, Dominion Resources, NextEra Energy and Energy Future Holdings."


 * June 27, 2007 [www.un.org/depts/unmovic/new/documents/compendium/Chapter_VIII.pdf Chapter VIII, "Observations and Lessons Learned"] United Nations Monitoring, Verification And Inspection Commission, “Compendium on Iraq's Proscribed Weapons Programs,”


 * December 10, 2003, the "Daily Jinnah, a Pakistani newspaper, reported that the ISI, Pakistan’s CIA equivalent, had arrested senior managers from [Khan Research Laboratories (KRL)], [operated by Abdul Qadeer Khan or A.Q.Khan] on suspicion of aiding Iran’s nuclear program.


 * 1998 "North Korea’s launch of a TD-1 multistage rocket over Japan on August 31, 1998 renewed interest in the United States in establishing a National Missile Defense (NMD) and a regional, multinational Theater Missile Defense (TMD) in Northeast Asia, an idea that Japan was quick to embrace."


 * In 1991 Donald MacKenzie's award-winning book entitled Inventing Accuracy was published. It was awarded the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science.


 * 1980s In his 2012 article entitled "The Secret Treachery of A.Q. Khan," " described how A.Q. Khan, who most Pakistanis consider to be the "father of the country’s nuclear bomb", had acknowledged in the late 1980s, that "he and his colleagues" had sent "drawings and some components" of centrifuges to the Iranians at the request of a top Pakistani general" noting that he "must have got money for it ($1 million)."


 * From 1976 until 2001, A. Q. Khan led the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) which "was one of Pakistan’s most sensitive nuclear facilities" and Khan’s "personal fief". "Without external oversight, [Khan] could easily conceal his side business: selling advanced nuclear technology to an assortment of foreign countries."

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