March 9th, South Korea will elect a new president. One of the things the new president will determine is whether or not to push Washington to support South Korea’s development and fueling of a nuclear submarine. The Progressive candidate, Lee Jae-myung, intends to press the […]
As the Olympics in China begin, many in Washington are struggling to determine how the United States should deal with Beijing given its bad behavior. The short answer is Washington should hold Beijing to China’s own commitments to behave. A case in point is Beijing’s […]
Late last week, Bill Gates’ TerraPower nuclear reactor corporation struck an agreement with the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry to build a small, advanced modular fast power reactor in Wyoming. The nuclear plant, called Natrium, is touted as the path forward to […]
Almost the instant President Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered to share nuclear submarine technology with Australia, analysts worried that it set a bad nuclear nonproliferation precedent that the Irans of the world would exploit to justify pushing nuclear subs programs of their own. […]
The Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) nuclear submarine deal became a political fact the instant President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Borris Johnson and Scott Morrison announced it. However, as John Lee and Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute and I explained at an event held […]
On February 3, 2022, Henry Sokolski did an interview with Peter Garretson for the Space Strategy podcast on this report. On January 17, 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a shortened version of this report. Last Friday, Space News reported Vice Chairman of the […]
On May 20, 2021, Henry Sokolski gave a brief overview of the recent NPEC report, “China’s Civil Nuclear Sector: Plowshares to Swords?” This presentation answered the following questions: How might China exploit its “peaceful” fast reactor and reprocessing programs to make nearly as many nuclear […]
On May 12, 2021, Henry Sokolski had an interview with The John Batchelor Show podcast on “The perils of nuke plants on Taiwan.” May 12, 2021
If there is a topic both supporters of Biden and Trump agree about it is the need to bolster Taiwan’s security. For most this has meant selling it more advanced weaponry. But there’s another military danger Taiwan faces that Washington can help reduce — the […]
Today, Reuters reported that China is pushing the development of a new generation of fast breeder reactors that make significant quantities of weapons-grade plutonium. The article draws on reports that China is building not one, but two large reprocessing plants (the first likely to come on line in 2025; […]
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