... simultaneously undercut arms control efforts… The Sides will continue to uphold the authority of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and other international legal instruments.... ... not mentioned among the principal multilateral agreements gives much food for thought.
From a practical standpoint, resuming nuclear tests would allow interested organizations to conduct full-scale experiments with qualitatively new warheads, though this ...
For the CIA, the success of the French nuclear program is the development of nuclear energy for the civil sector
On 19 November 1959, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published a scientific intelligence report on “
The French Nuclear Weapons Program
” (CIA/SI 47-59) analyzing the state of progress of the French research in this specific field. The secret report describes France’s capabilities in plutonium production, extraction, isotope separation and the development of ...
... of a nuclear missile and it would be naive to blissfully rely on Pyongyang’s reluctance to use it. Moreover, North Korea has repeatedly stressed that if the United States “does not abandon its hostile policy,” it will not eliminate nuclear weapons “even if the sky falls to the ground.”
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It’s difficult to understand why the regime intensified diplomatic efforts to restore its relations with China, South Korea and countries in Southeast Asia in late 2015.
These ...
