By Daryl G. Kimball
Today, the people of Japan and people the world over pause to remember the nearly 20,000 people killed and unaccounted for as a result of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, two weeks after the tsunami struck Japan.
North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex (AP).
By Daryl G. Kimball
The Natanz enrichment complex.
(UPDATED at 7:50pm EST)
By Peter Crail and Daryl G. Kimball
Image Source: The Guardian
By Peter Crail
By Tom Z. Collina
A new study in the March 2012 issue of Science & Global Security suggests that North Korea carried out a small nuclear explosive test in May 2010. If true, this would be the third nuclear test by North Korea and its first that was not announced.
CTBTO radionuclide monitoring station, Okinawa, Japan
By Greg Thielmann
DNI James Clapper Testifies at Jan. 31 Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing
HMS Vanguard launches US-supplied Trident II D5 SLBM off Florida in October 2005. (Image Source: FAS.org.)
By Daryl G. Kimball
(Note: this post was updated on Jan. 27)
By Greg Thielmann
U.S. policy-makers grappling with the Iranian nuclear challenge require the same psychological insight required for success in playing the stock market. The advice, "buy low, sell high," may be obvious, but it is difficult to apply in practice, because investors' emotions lead them in exactly the opposite direction.
Paul van den IJssel of the Netherlands, president of the 2011 BWC Review Conference, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (Image Source: U.S. Mission to Geneva)
By Oliver Meier
By Daryl G. Kimball and Tom Z. Collina 
This morning, President Obama and Defense Secretary Panetta unveiled their new defense strategy that is designed to yield some $450 billion plus in budget savings that must be achieved over the next decade.
