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Managing the Danger from Pakistan's Nuclear Stockpile

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  • Jeffrey G. Lewis,
  • New America Foundation
November 8, 2010

Pakistan has a large and growing nuclear arsenal.  The United States has provided substantial assistance to improve the security of Pakistan’s arsenal, such that today it is largely safe and secure during peacetime. The greater danger, however, is Pakistan might place its nuclear forces on alert during a crisis with India.  Such a move would disrupt many carefully designed security procedures and expose Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to much greater risks of theft or unauthorized use.

Bipartisan Agreement On Nuke Spending | ABQ Journal

September 30, 2010

... The money is part of a political bargain being struck in an attempt to win Republican support for a new nuclear arms control treaty with the Russians, said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation and proprietor of the Arms Control Wonk. ...

Japan Weighs Role in India's Nuclear Boom | Asia Times

June 18, 2010

"Japan is an essential party for US and French nuclear cooperation with India. Japanese firms are deeply entangled in the US and French nuclear industry," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-Proliferation Initiative at the Washington DC-based New America Foundation. ...

Iran Nuclear Fuel Swap: Why U.S., Others are no Longer so Keen on it | The Christian Science Monitor

May 17, 2010

“There is less to Iran’s agreement than meets the eye,” writes Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy & Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, on his blog ArmsControlWonk.com. ...

Cool Response to Iran's Nuclear Fuel Swap With Turkey | The Guardian

May 17, 2010

"Iran is enriching uranium faster than we can swap it, Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert at the New America Foundation, said. The deal states that: "The ...

U.S. Is Expected To Reveal Size of Nuclear Stockpile | The Washington Post

April 30, 2010

Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, said releasing the U.S. numbers would be "a major step forward in transparency."

"The United States has not gotten enough credit for the reductions it has made," he said. "That's even true of the Bush administration. . . . It makes it easier for us to make the case we are in fact reducing the number of nuclear weapons." ...

Obama's Atomic Choices | Foreign Policy

April 28, 2010

... Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation disclosed this debate in a blog post that pointed out that the amount of plutonium needed for a weapon is ...

Next Steps on Nuclear Safety: Enforcement, Enforcement, Enforcement | The Washington Independent

April 13, 2010

“The summit is a forcing mechanism,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuke expert at the New America Foundation who blogs at Arms Control Wonk. ...

China's Civilian and Military Nuclear Activities | Reuters

April 12, 2010

"There are no indications that China is designing, testing, or producing new nuclear weapons designs", according to Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation, a thinktank in Washington DC, in an overview of Chinese nuclear arms policy. ...

U.S. Looks to Nonnuclear Weapons to use as Deterrent | The Washington Post

April 7, 2010

"People watch '24' and think that's how intelligence comes in," said Jeffrey G. Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation. "It's not like the president has his brain cybernetically linked to satellite images." ...

Arms Control Deal Key U.S. Policy Win | Agence Fracne Presse

March 27, 2010

Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear weapons specialist at the New America Foundation, said the deal “shows we can still do arms control,'' adding the United States has ...

New Us-Russian Arms Control Deal Set for Signing | Global Security Newswire

March 26, 2010

The treaty was a major accomplishment for the Obama administration, said Jeffrey Lewis, an analyst with the New America Foundation in Washington ...

U.S. Peeks Into China's Nuclear Fortress | Asia Times Online

March 25, 2010

"I would expect the Chinese government to be a little disconcerted about such information appearing in the public domain, but the report's author, Mark Stokes, has noted elsewhere that China is becoming more open so I would expect Chinese readers to react across the spectrum, from rage to shrugs," said Dr Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-proliferation Initiative at the Washington DC-based New America Foundation. ...

United States and Russia Reach Nuclear-Arms Deal | The Washington Post

March 24, 2010

<"I think there was a real question about whether or not we could do arms control anymore -- whether we had the institutional capacity, and whether the interests of the countries aligned in such a way they could do it," said Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear-weapons specialist at the New America Foundation. ...

'Nuclear Doctrine' of Moscow Under Fire | Financial Times

March 19, 2010

"It was a mistake to bet on getting a quick treaty with the Russians," said Jeffrey Lewis at the New America Foundation in Washington. ...

Debate Heats Up Over Conventional, Nuclear Deterrence Tradeoffs | Global Security Newswire

March 19, 2010

Today, nuclear strategy expert Jeffrey Lewis goes even further.

"The target set of things that we cannot hold at risk with conventional weapons is very small and maybe empty," Lewis, who heads the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, told Global Security Newswire this week. "The unique value provided by nuclear weapons is largely psychological at this point and hardly one of military utility."...

Obama Plans 'Dramatic Reductions' in U.S. Nuclear Weapons | AFP

March 1, 2010

Accounts of the long-delayed policy review suggest "a very conventional document that will fall far short of the president's rhetoric," Jeffrey Lewis recently wrote ...

Obama Team Might Speed Up Disassembly Of Older Nuclear Warheads | Global Security Newswire

March 1, 2010

"I think they are looking for politically expedient ways to demonstrate the commitment to the Prague agenda," said Jeffrey Lewis, who leads the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Pentagon Might Shift Command Responsibility for Combating WMD Spread | Global Security Newswire

February 12, 2010

"I would imagine that [Joint Forces Command] or [Special Operations Command] would do equally well, given the type of operations we are imagining," said Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Experts Map Route to Disarmament | Financial Times

February 3, 2010

"There's a sense that the administration overestimated Russia's eagerness for a deal," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the New America Foundation ...

US's Strike Threat Catches China Off Guard | Asia Times Online

February 3, 2010

"It's an emerging realization. I don't think the Chinese have fully come to grips with it," said Dr Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the Washington DC-based New America Foundation. ...

China Vents Anger with Missile Test | Asia Times Online

January 19, 2010

... the same," said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Non-proliferation Initiative at the Washington DC-based New America Foundation. ...

India, China Developing Technology to Kill Satellites in Orbit | World News

January 14, 2010

The New Scientist quoted ,b>Jeffrey Lewis, an analyst for the New America Foundation based in Washington, DC, as saying that there is not much difference ...

Panel Sees No Need for A-Bomb Upgrade | New York Times

November 19, 2009
Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear specialist at the New America Foundation, a Washington research group, said in a blog posting that the report “should drive a ...

Panel Sees No Need for A-Bomb Upgrade | New York Times

November 19, 2009

Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear specialist at the New America Foundation, a Washington research group, said in a blog posting that the report “should drive a ...

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