The Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) is a non-governmental information network launched by the Nautilus Institute in November 1993. NAPSNet covers the key areas of research and policy work of the Nautilus Institute nodes in San Francisco, Melbourne and Seoul, including Austral security, nuclear deterrence, energy security, climate change adaptation, the DPRK, governance and civil society and the links between these themes and the three regions in which our nodes are found—North America, Northeast Asia, and the Austral-Asia region.
The Weekly Report succinctly presents six items each week that we believe every reader should know about these fields.
United States 1. US Congress on PRC Human Rights The US Congress urged President George W. Bush to impose new pressure on the PRC over its human rights record, in a new report which top senators claimed pulled no punches. The report was the first issued by the Congressional Executive Commission on the PRC, established […]
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United States 1. US Missile Defense A Pentagon advisory board has recommended that the Bush administration narrow the focus of its missile defense program and concentrate development on two approaches to an anti-missile shield, US officials said on Tuesday. Pentagon officials stated that the Defense Science Board made the preliminary recommendation in a draft report […]
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United States 1. US Missile Defense A Pentagon advisory board has recommended that the Bush administration narrow the focus of its missile defense program and concentrate development on two approaches to an anti-missile shield, US officials said on Tuesday. Pentagon officials stated that the Defense Science Board made the preliminary recommendation in a draft report […]
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United States 1. US Missile Defense Test The Pentagon postponed a missile defense test scheduled for Saturday because of problems with the interceptor rocket. Workers discovered problems with seals on the nozzles that help steer two stages of the three-stage rocket, the Defense Department’s Missile Defense Agency said in a statement Tuesday. The test scheduled […]
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Korean Peninsula 1. Inter-Korean Relations The DPRK and ROK started a second round of high level reconciliation talks with the ROK seeking to fix dates for crucial military meetings. While anti-communist demonstrators burned a DPRK flag outside, the two sides closed on an accord to hold new reunions of families separated by the division of […]
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United States 1. US Test Ban Treaty A National Academy of Sciences panel concluded in a report released Wednesday that the US does not need to perform nuclear explosion tests to reliably maintain its atomic weapons. The report rebutted several arguments against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which the Republican-controlled Senate rejected in 1999. The […]
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United States 1. US-Russian Nuclear Relations US officials want to press Russia for greater access to information about Russia’s nuclear weapons programs as the countries reduce their nuclear arsenals- especially its hoard of smaller, battlefield weapons, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. He said the Americans would work to get more access to that […]
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United States 1. US Domestic View on Missile Agency US Congressional critics of the multibillion-dollar missile defense program say the Bush administration’s plan to reorganize the agency will give Congress inadequate information to gauge whether it is taking too long, costing too much or failing too often. “Now we have no way of knowing whether […]
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United States 1. Pentagon PRC Military Report The US Defense Department has concluded that the PRC is honing forces aimed at “bringing Taiwan to its knees,” if that is what is needed to unite it with the mainland, while keeping US aircraft carriers at bay, Pentagon officials stated on July 12. The assessment is detailed […]
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United States 1. US Missile Shield The death of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty on Thursday cleared the way for digging interceptor silos in Alaska and for missile tests barred by the pact. As the US exit from the treaty was taking effect at midnight Eastern time (0400 GMT on Friday), the Pentagon’s Missile Defense […]
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