updated Fri. February 9, 2024
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 10, 2018
The only other alternative, some in the hardright camp argue, is for South Korea to develop its own nuclear bomb. ... Japan, which already produces nuclear fuel, would have a jump-start on a nuclear weapons program. .... There are also significant parallels to nuclear development in Europe in the 1950s.
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 6, 2018
Could new U.S. tactical missile projects trigger a new nuclear arms race? Recent comments by U.S. Army leaders, and a new project from Pentagon research agency DARPA, point to the United States developing new long-range ... At the same time, DARPA is pursuing its OpFires missile program.
RT
April 6, 2018
The NATO chief declined to name the participants in a controversial program in which non-nuclear states are trained to use US-made nuclear weapons. Russia ... “The presence of ready-for-use US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe is not just remnants of the Cold War, but clearly an aggressive stance.”.
TASS
March 1, 2018
Press review: IOC reinstates Russia's membership and Moscow, US nix nuclear disarmament ... Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov named a number of reasons for Russia shrugging off the UN chief's call, namely the presence of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and US deployment of the globalÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 1, 2018
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis unveiled a Nuclear Posture Review that calls for the development of smaller nuclear weapons to counteract Russian plans. ... "In this situation the existence in Europe of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons ready for use is not just a Cold War rudiment, but an outspokenly aggressiveÃâà...
The Hill
February 16, 2018
President Park Chung-hee, uncertain of President Richard Nixon's continuing commitment to the ROK's defense, began a nuclear program that he ended only under enormous American pressure. ... The opposition is even worse, calling for redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to the peninsula.
The National Interest Online
February 16, 2018
The 2018 NPR supports a robust modernization program for nuclear delivery systems: bombers, strategic submarines, and intercontinental-range ballistic missiles. ... The review provides for extended deterrence by upholding U.S. tactical nuclear weapons deployment to Europe. Although the NPR callsÃâà...
Breaking Defense
February 15, 2018
Each time the U.S. extends that temporary alliance the Turks get more worried,” said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington ... For nearly a week the power and flight operations were shut down at the base, which houses an arsenal of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons.
Sputnik International
February 6, 2018
US atomic weapons with a reduced yield pose a serious challenge to world peace and may prompt other global players to strengthen their nuclear posture, thus opening the door to a new arms race, Chen Junhua, deputy director of the Iran Research Center at China's Southwest University, told Sputnik.
Sputnik International
February 2, 2018
Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula as a result of the rapid advance of North Korea's nuclear arms program in 2017, South Korea completed ... I think this is part of the process of developing anti-missile defense systems," Cheon Seong-when, a visiting research fellow at the Asan Institute for PolicyÃâà...
38 North
December 1, 2017
These measures, while necessary in the short-term, may not be sufficient to contain South Korean pressure for either US TNW deployments or development of an indigenous nuclear weapons program over the long-run, especially if the conservative party returns to power. If Washington wants to keep theÃâà...
The National Interest Online
September 19, 2017
A Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI) poll conducted September 8–9 shows that 68.2 percent of those surveyed believe that U.S. tactical nuclear ... Leaving aside South Korea's own nuclear-weapons program in the 1970s under President Park Chung-hee, a majority of the respondents in public polls inÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
September 15, 2017
As I have been writing about in recent weeks, the United States and its Asia-Pacific allies have been scrambling to respond to the rapid advances in North Korea's nuclear program. One idea that has been floated is to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea and perhaps even Japan. To be sureÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
September 6, 2017
Opposition parties and sections of South Korea's media are stepping up calls for the government to invite the United States to reintroduce tactical nuclear weapons to the country as Pyongyang is showing no signs of halting its development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The USÃâà...
