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2008

CRS REPORTS

• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments, March 4, 2008
• Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Policy Implications of Expanding Global Access to Nuclear Power, March 7, 2008
• Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, January 18, 2008

GAO REPORTS

• Nuclear Material: Several Potential Options for Dealing with DOE’s Depleted Uranium Tails Could Benefit the Government, April 3, 2008
• Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE Needs to Reassess Its Program to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia and Other Countries, January 23, 2008
• Military Transformation: DOD Needs to Strengthen Implementation of Its Global Strike Concept and Provide a Comprehensive Investment Approach for Acquiring Needed Capabilities, April 30, 2008
• Nuclear Security: Action May Be Needed to Reassess the Security of NRC-Licensed Research Reactors, January 31, 2008

IPFM DOCUMENTS

• Global Fissile Material Report 2007

USG Commissioned Reports

• World at Risk: Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, December 2008.
• Interim Report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, December 15, 2008.
• Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management – Phase I, September 2008
• Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management – Phase II, December 2008

2007

CRS REPORTS

• U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues, September 5, 2007
• The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program: Background and Current Developments, July 26, 2007
• Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, updated July 12, 2007, July 12, 2007
• Nuclear Warheads: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program and the Life Extension Program, July 16, 2007
• Conventional Warheads for Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues for Congress, June 19, 2007
• Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements, June 1, 2007
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons: Changes in Policy and Force Structure, January 12, 2007
• Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, January 9, 2007

GAO REPORTS

• Nuclear Weapons: Annual Assessment of the Safety, performance, and Reliability of the Nation’s Stockpile, February 2, 2007

HEARINGS/TESTIMONY

• Hearing of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on US Nuclear Weapons Policy, July 18, 2007
• FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for the Department of Energy’s NNSA before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Thomas P. D’Agostino, Acting Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, March 28, 2007
• FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for the Department of Energy’s NNSA before the House Armed Services Committee, Thomas P. D’Agostino, Acting Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, March 20, 2007
• Statement by General James E. Cartwright, Commander, USSTRATCOM, before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, March 28, 2007

USG DOCUMENTS

• Report on the Plan for Transformation of the National Nuclear Security Administration Nuclear Weapons Complex, January 31, 2007

OTHER REPORTS

• Reliable Replacement Warhead: Executive Summary, August 29, 2007
• The United States Nuclear Weapons Program: The Role of the Reliable Replacement Warhead, American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 2007

2006

CRS REPORTS

• U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments and Issues, October 17, 2006
• Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, October 16, 2006
• Nuclear Energy Policy, October 12, 2006
• Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, October 12, 2006
• U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress, October 4, 2006
• Nuclear Power Plants: Vulnerability to Terrorist Attack, October 4, 2006
• Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban: Chronology Starting September 1992, October 3, 2006
• U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Current Legislation, September 5, 2006
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons: Changes in Policy and Force Structure, August 10, 2006
• India’s Nuclear Separation Plan: Issues and Views, July 21, 2006
• Banning Fissile Material Production for Nuclear Weapons: Prospects for a Treaty (FMCT), July 14, 2006
• Radioactive Tank Waste from the Past Production of Nuclear Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress, June 13, 2006
• Nuclear Command and Control: Current Programs and Issues, May 3, 2006
• Conventional Warheads and Long-Ranged Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues for Congress, March 13, 2006
• "Bunker Busters" – Nuclear Earth Penetrator Issues – FY2005-FY2006, February 21, 2006
• Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons, February 2, 2006
• Nuclear Weapons Complex Reconfiguration: Analysis of an Energy Department Task Force Report, February 1, 2006
• NPT Compliance Issues, January 25, 2006

GAO REPORTS

• Nuclear Weapons: Views on Proposals to Transform the Nuclear Weapons Complex, April 26, 2006
• Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons, February 2006

HEARINGS/TESTIMONY

• Plutonium Disposition and the U.S. Mixed Oxide Fuel Facility, Ambassador Linton F. Brooks, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, July 27, 2006
• The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Future Plans for the Nuclear   Weapons Complex Infrastructure, Dr. David O. Overskei, Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force, April 4, 2006
• The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Future Plans for the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure, Thomas P. D’Agostino, Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, April 4, 2006
• Global Strike Plans and Programs, General James E. Cartwright, Commander, USSTRATCOM, March 29, 2006
• Global Strike Issues, The Honorable Peter C.W. Flory, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, March 29, 2006
• Nuclear Weapons Activities of the Department of Energy in Review of the FY 2007 Defense Authorization Request, Ambassador Linton F. Brooks, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, March 7, 2006

USG DOCUMENTS

• Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force: Nuclear Capabilities, December 2006
• Complex 2030: An Infrastructure Planning Scenario for a Nuclear Weapons Complex Able to Meet the Threats of the 21^st Century, National Nuclear Security Administration, October 23, 2006
• U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Plan, October 2006

OTHER REPORTS

• “Nuclear Deterrence for the Future”, Thomas Schelling, Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2006
• “The Next Nuke”, Geoff Brumfiel, Nature, Volume 442, July 6, 2006
• “Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-2006”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2006
• "Peddling Plutonium: Nuclear Energy Plan Would Make the World More Dangerous", Natural Resources Defense Council, March 2006
• “The Future of United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Shaping the Debate”, Michael Quinlan, International Affairs, 82, 4, 2006
• “Nuclear Deterrence”, Michael MccGwire, International Affairs, 82, 4, 2006
•  “U.S. Nuclear Forces”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2006

2005

Breakfast Series

• Transforming Nuclear Weapons Policy, Dr. Ronald F. Lehman

CRS Reports

• Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2006, October 26, 2005
• "Bunker Busters": Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Issues, FY2005 and FY2006, August 2, 2005
• Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program, May 26, 2005
• Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, April 28, 2005
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons: Changes in Policy and Force Structure, January 13, 2005
• Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, September 9, 2004

GAO Reports

• Radiation Exposure Compensation Act: Program Status, September 28, 2005
• Securing U.S. Nuclear Materials: DOE Needs to Take Action to Safely Consolidate Plutonium, July 2005
•  Spending and Develop a Long-term Investment Approach, June 2005
• Nuclear Weapons: Preliminary Results of Review of Campaigns to Provide Scientific Support for the Stockpile Stewardship Program, April 29, 2005
• Military Transformation: Actions Needed by DOD to More Clearly Identify New Triad, June 2005

Hearings/Testimony

• "The Day After an Attack, What Would We Wish We Had Done? Why Aren't We Doing It Now?",  Sam Nunn, Co-Chairman, Nuclear Threat Initiative, June 27, 2005
• Ballistic Missile Defense Programs, David W. Duma, Acting Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, April 7, 2005
• Missile Defense Program Progress, The Honorable Michael W. Wynne, Under Secretary of Defense, April 7, 2005
• Missile Defense Program and Fiscal Year 2006 Budget, Lieutenant General Henry A. Obering III, USAF, April 7, 2005
• Strategic Forces and Nuclear Weapons Issues in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2006, General James E. Cartwright, USMC, April 4, 2005

USG Documents

• Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, August 2005
• An Analysis of Uranium Dispersal and Health Effects Using a Gulf War Case Study, July 2005
• Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to the Production of Radioisotope Power Systems, July 2005
• Recommendations for the Nuclear Weapons Complex of the Future July 2005
  
• Recommendations for Regulatory Improvements to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System Database, June 2005
• Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 2006, May 2005
• Independent NNSA Security Review, May 2005
• Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Weapon Effects Test, Evaluation, and Simulation, April 2005
• Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to the Production of Radioisotope Power Systems, December 2004

Other Reports

• Global Cleanout of Civil Nuclear Material: Toward a Comprehensive, Threat-Driven Response, Philipp C. Bleek, September 2005
• Complex future for US weapons, Michael Levi, Physics World, August 2005
• All Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Not Equal, Allison Macfarlane, Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, MIT Center for International Studies, July 2005
• The Nuclear Posture Review: Setting the Record Straight, Keith B. Payne, The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2005
• Maintaining Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century, U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, June 2005
• Stigmatizing the Bomb, Origins of the Nuclear Taboo, Nina Tannenwald, International Security, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Spring 2005)
• Time for Nuclear States to Recall Their Obligations, Anatoli Diakov and Eugene Miasnikov, INESAP Information Bulletin No.25, April 2005
• What Are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic  Nuclear Forces, An Arms Control Association Report, April 2005
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe: A Review of Post-Cold War Policy, Force Levels, and War Planning, Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2005
• The United Kingdom's Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base, RAND, 2005
• Integrated Power: A National Security Strategy for the 21st Century, Lawrence J. Korb and Robert O. Boorstin, Center for American Progress, 2005
• The Road to Nuclear Security, Lawrence Korb with Peter Ogden, Center for American Progress, December 2004
• Is There a Purpose for Deterrence After the Cold War? Ambassador C. Paul Robinson, June 2004
• At the Crossroads: Disarmament or Re-Nuclearization, The Friends Committee on National Legislation