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Formerly Washington Nuclear Update. Previous editions of Getting to Zero and Washington Nuclear Update are available below. To subscribe to BASIC's Email Updates, please go to the Email Updates Subscription page. Previous editions of Iran Update, Missile Defence Update, NATO Update, and Afghanistan Update are also available.

April 2008

• Commitments to Disarmament and Arms Control
• Country Reports
  • United States
  • Iran
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • Syria
  • North Korea
  • United Kingdom and France
  • New Zealand
• Missile Defence
• Other Publications
• Upcoming Events

March 2008

• Commitments to Disarmament and Arms Control
• Country Reports
  • United States
  • Iran
  • India and Pakistan
  • North Korea
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • China
  • Norway
• Missile Defence
• Other Publications
• BASIC GETTING TO ZERO project

February 2008

• Commitments to Disarmament and Arms Control
  • Browne speech to CD
  • US Global Security Priorities Resolution
  • CTBT
  • START
  • De-alerting
• Country Reports
  • United States
  • Iran
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • North Korea
• Missile Defence
• Publications
• Update on BASIC GETTING TO ZERO project

January 2008

• Commitments to Disarmament and Arms Control
• Country Reports
  • United States
  • Iran
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • North Korea
  • Syria
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom
• Missile Defence
• Publications
  

November 2007

• Arms Control
  
• Pakistan
  
• India
  
• Iran
• North Korea
• Rest of the Middle East
• United Kingdom
• United States

October 2007

• United States
  
  • Submarine procurement
    
  • Nuclear B-52 incident
  • Reliable Replacement Warhead
  • Nuclear deal with India
  • Warheads dismantled under SORT
  • Assassination with radioactive poisons
  • Prompt Global Strike
  • Proliferation studies
    
• Co-operative Threat Reduction
  
• Black Market
  
• Iran
• North Korea & Syria
• United Kingdom
• Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

September 2007

• United States
  
  • Nuclear Doctrine
    
  • Nuclear Safety
  • Nuclear Test Ban
  • Nuclear deal with India
    
• United Kingdom
  
• Iran
  
• North Korea
• Nuclear Terrorism
• Controls on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

August 2007

• Arms Control
  
• United States
• India
• Iran
  
• North Korea
• United Kingdom
• Pakistan
• China
• Nuclear Energy
  

May 2007

• Arms Control
  
  • Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Conference
    
  • Fissile Material
    
• United States
  
  • Nuclear Disarmament
  • Nuclear Re-armament
  • Co-operative Threat Reduction
  • Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
  • Commission on U.S. Nuclear Strategic Posture
  • U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation
• Iran
  
• North Korea
• Publications

April 2007

• Arms Control
  
• Iran
  
• North Korea
  
• Russia
  
• United Kingdom
  
• United States
• Publications

March 2007

• United States
  
• United Kingdom
  
• Iran
  
• North Korea
  
• Nuclear Terrorism
  
• Other Publications

February 2007

• Arms Control
• Iran
• North Korea
• Nuclear Terrorism
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Publications

January 2007

• Arms Control
• United States
• United Kingdom
• Iran
• North Korea
• China
• India
• Publications
• Websites

November 2006

• Arms Control
• India
• Iran
• North Korea
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Publications

October 2006

• North Korea
• Iran
• Nuclear Weapons Free Zones
• Nuclear Fuel Bank and Other Fuel-Cycle Issues
• Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
• CTBT
• India-U.S. Nuclear Deal
• Proliferation
• Other Publications

September 2006

• Arms Control
• Black Market
• India
• Iran
• Libya
• North Korea
• Pakistan
• United States
• Publications

July 2006

• Arms Control
• China
• India
• Iran
• North Korea
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Publications and Databases

June 2006

• Blix Commission Report on WMD
• ElBaradei on Nuclear Proliferation Challenges
• United States
  • Proposed Fissile Material Ban
  • Conventional Warheads Proposed for Trident
• Iran
• Brazil
• Libya
• United Kingdom
• Publications

May 2006

• United States
  • FY 2007 Nuclear Weapons Budget Request
  • Reliable Replacement Warhead
  • Preventive War
• China
• India-U.S. Deal
• Iran
• Nuclear fuel control
• United Kingdom
• Publications

April 2006

• India-U.S. Deal
• Iran
• United States
  • Nuclear Doctrine
  • Reliable Replacement Warhead
  • Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
  • Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure
  • A New Non-Proliferation Bill
  • Hearings
• United Kingdom
• Publications

March 2006

• United States
  • U.S. Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
  • India & U.S. nuclear cooperation
  • US-UK sub-critical nuclear test
  • Safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal
  • A new Hydrogen bomb?
  • Politicization of the State Department’s arms control and international security bureaus
  • New plutonium cores
  • Upgrades to Minuteman ICBMs
• France
• Iran
• Publications

February 2006

• Quadrennial Defense Review
• Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)
• Joint Nuclear Operations Doctrine cancelled
• Proposal to replace nuclear SLBMs with conventional warheads
• U.S. nuclear cooperation with India
• Proposed reform of the National Nuclear Security Administration?
• History of clandestine WMD attacks against the United States
• U.S. nuclear stockpile
• Publications

January 2006

• Message from BASIC Executive Director
• Iran's nuclear program
• U.S.-India nuclear cooperation
• U.S. FY-06 budget
• Nuclear non-proliferation and cooperative threat reduction
• U.S. Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations
• Proliferation Security Initiative
• Publications
• Forthcoming reports
• Forthcoming events

June 2005

• Nuclear weapons and nonproliferation in the US FY-06 budget
  • Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP)
  • Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)
  • Modern Pit Facility (MPF)
  • Enhanced test readiness
• Nuclear nonproliferation
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • Russia
• Trident replacement - the debate begins in Britain

NPT Review Conference Roundup, January - March 2005

• BASIC and Oxford Research Group NPT Project launch
• Seven Steps to Raise World Security
• Arms Control Association Panel
• Report estimates 480 US nuclear weapons remain in Europe
• NPT Information Site
• International Expert Group
• Bush and Putin Joint Statement
• Annan Statement on the NPT
• President Bush Statement on the NPT
• ElBaradei supports discussions on a nuclear-free Middle East
• British MPs debate the NPT Review
• International Security Conference
• Science and Public Affairs article on the NPT

March 2005

• North Korea: No Progress Seen
• Iran: Defining a Threat
• China
• Russia
• Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference

February 2005

• North Korean nuclear weapons
• The US, the EU-3, and Iran
• Nonproliferation and the NPT Review Conference
• Nuclear weapons in the US FY-06 budget
• Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Special Edition - Congress Stops 2005 Funding for New U.S. Nuclear Weapons, November 2004

Key Points:

• Congress kills President Bush's 2005 nuclear weapons funding requests:
  • Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP)
  • Advanced Concepts
  • Modern Pit Facility
  • Enhanced test readiness
• Cuts due to a confluence of factors
• Cuts a dramatic success for international nonproliferation efforts
• Bush Administration is likely to request a restoration of funds next budget cycle

October 2004

• Iran continues with its enrichment program
• Ongoing crisis surrounding North Korea’s nuclear programs
• Iraq Survey Group report published
• United States - New nuclear weapons?
• A verifiable Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty unlikely
• Enrichment activities in South Korea
• Brazil plans a domestic nuclear fuel cycle

June 2004

• Two New Research Reports from BASIC
• North Korea
• Iran
• Iraq
• Nonproliferation
• U.S. Congress
• Nuclear Issues in the United Kingdom
• Global Nuclear Issues

May 2004

• New Nuclear Weapons
  • Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP)
  • Research on 'mini nukes'
• 2004 NPT Preparatory Committee meeting, New York
• US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement & Nuclear Sharing
• Iran's Nuclear Programs
• UN Security Council Resolution on WMD

April 2004

• IAEA to continue investigating Iran nuclear programme
• State Department briefing regarding Iran and the IAEA
• The six party talks on the North Korea nuclear crisis
• John Bolton speech in Berlin on the German-American relationship after Iraq
• 'Bunker buster' nuclear weapon spending questions
• Missile accident in Canada
• Russia to recycle weapons-grade uranium from Libya
• UK commanders admit submarine crash charge
• China to build a nuclear plant in Pakistan

February 2004

• John Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, outlines U.S policy on nuclear weapons and 'rogue states'
• Mitchell B. Reiss, Director of Policy Planning for the U.S Department of State, reflects upon the 50th Anniversary of President Eisenhower's 'Atoms for Peace' proposal
• Libya announces that it will abandon the development of WMD and is to hold talks with the IAEA to discuss international inspection of its WMD facilities and the eventual dismantling of its WMD programme
• The British Prime Minister and the United States President welcome the Libyan WMD announcement in separate statements
• IAEA Director-General Dr ElBaradei makes a statement suggesting that Libya was 'not close to nuclear arms'
• Letter from BASIC and other NGO's to IAEA Director-General Dr ElBaradei

November 2003

• Congress approves funding for development of tactical nuclear weapons
• Congress orders that test readiness not drop below two years and repeals ban on the development of low-yield nuclear weapons
• The defence authorisation bill labelled "scary and scandalous" by major UK newspaper
• Russian Federation warns of imminent nuclear posture change
• Democrat National Security Advisory Group recommends changes in U.S. nuclear policies
• The "doctrine of pre-emption" a centrepiece of re-election campaign
• Continued debate over whether RNEP weapons can be employed with minimal collateral damage
• IAEA chief proposes new approach to nuclear weapons