Removal of Syrian Chemical Weapons Arsenal A Breakthrough, Yet There Is More To Be Done
Statement of Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association
Statement of Daryl G. Kimball, Executive Director, Arms Control Association
The House Made the Right Call to Support Annual Cost Estimates.
By Tom Z. Collina
The House just passed an amendment offered by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to require annual updates to a December Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study on the cost of U.S. nuclear weapons. The CBO report estimated that maintaining and modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal would cost $355 billion over ten years.
By Daryl G. Kimball and Kelsey Davenport (updated 12:00 noon EST)
Today in Vienna as P5+1 negotiators engage with their Iranian counterparts on each side's proposals for a "comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran's nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful," it is clear that the two sides are still far apart on the pivotal issue of Iran's "practical needs" for uranium enrichment.