NPEC’s Executive Director and Wohlstetter Public Affairs Fellow publish a new piece in The National Interest, “South Korea is about to Make a $7 Billion Nuclear Submarine Blunder,” about South Korea’s interest in developing extremely expensive nuclear submarines, which also raises nuclear proliferation concerns. Oct 02, 2017 AUTHOR: Zachary...
Zachary Keck, NPEC Wohlstetter Public Affairs Fellow, has published two articles about nuclear weapons in South Korea. The first argues that redeploying U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea would have no military utility while also undermining alliance relations. The second one, co-authored with NPEC Research...
NPEC hosted a Capitol Hill policy lunch forum onSeptember 14,”America’s and Japan’s Other Emerging Nuclear Problem: Tons of “Peaceful” Plutonium.” The forum featured a panel of visiting Diet members and experts from Japan who came to draw attention to the planned expansion of “peaceful” commercial...
John Batchelor and Gordon Chang interview NPEC’s Executive Director on what might North Korea attack after a U.S. strike on its missles and nuclear sites. Aug 10, 2017 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski
In this op-ed, featured in The Wall Street Journal, NPEC’s Executive Director and Zachary Keck examine the security implications of North Korea’s recent test of a 300-1,000 kilometer range Scud missile with a maneuvering reentry vehicle. The piece analyzes how the further spread of this missile technology...
NPEC’s Program Advisor, Executive Director, and Bruce Goodwin, former associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, publish a piece in The Japan Times, “Commercial plutonium a bomb material,” which spells out the tactical reasons why reactor-grade plutonium can be used to make bombs. May 31, 2017...
NPEC’s Program Adviser clarifies how loopholes in the NPT are being exploited by Germany and others to get nonweapon states like Israel the means to deliver nuclear weapons in piece entitled, “The Real German Submarine Scandal.” Jan 04, 2017AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky The Real German Submarine...
NPEC Executive Director co-authors piece in The Wall Street Journal detailing rising plutonim stockpiles in East Asia in “Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear“ May 08, 2016 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear The longtime status quo is crumbling, and plutonim...
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists published a piece by Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski that argues that after the interim agreement, which allows Iran to enrich to 5%, the U.S. will find it much more difficult to gain “gold standard” civilian nuclear agreements that require...
A new NPEC report by Frank Von Hippel “Spent Fuel Management in South Korea: The Illogic of Pyroprocessing” calls into question South Korea’s plans to use pyroprocessing to recycle its spent fuel stores. Mar 05, 2010 AUTHOR: Frank von Hippel Spent Fuel Management in South...
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