DETERRENCE: It’s Time to Talk About Nukes Again DPRK: N.K. Special Envoy meets with Putin GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China uses APEC Summit as Platform to boost Leadership Role in Region ENERGY SECURITY: Cleaner, more efficient Cookstoves should be on front burner of Women’s needs in Developing Countries CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate Change in the Places We Live: What the […]
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Nautilus Peace and Security – 13 November
DETERRENCE: Interview with Masakatsu Ota DPRK: North Korea frees two Americans as Obama heads to Beijing GOVER…
North Korea frees two Americans as Obama heads to Beijing
After the Fowles release, Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute in Berkeley, Calif, speculated that “North Korea is making a diplomatic push that could lead in a year’s time to a meeting between President Obama and Kim Jong Un.” The Fowles release, according to Hayes, was a small effort to show China and Russia that Kim is trying to engage […]
AdaptNet for 4 November 2014
Win-Win: China’s ability to play an active and constructive role in the Northeast Asia Energy and Environmental Sector
Roger Cavazos, David Von Hippel, and Peter Hayes Nautilus Institute 4 November 2014 This paper was originally published with support from the Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 1, No.10. Roger Cavazos is a Nautilus Institute Associate and retired US military officer with assignments in the intelligence and policy communities. David […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 6 November
DETERRENCE: A Plutonium-Rich Asia DPRK: STTB: Russian Invasion Edition GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Korea, New Issues Threaten Regional Security: Seoul FM ENERGY SECURITY: The Problem with Energy Efficiency CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Retreat from Retreat – The Backward Evolution of Sea-Level Rise Policy in Australia, and the Implications for Local Government CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: A Disagreement over Climate-Conflict Link Heats Up DETERRENCE: A […]
Nuclear Warfighting to Defeat a DPRK Attack: Unnecessary, Disproportionate, Incredible, and Self-Defeating
Peter Hayes Nautilus Institute Forthcoming NAPSNet Special Report November 2014 In 1978, Bryan Jack and a team of analysts at Pan Heuristics asked how nuclear weapons might be used to blunt a North Korean all-out attack on the South?[i] Their analysis (which posited South Korean nuclear weapons, but the results are identical if American nuclear […]
Fearing North Korean Fire, Farmers Clash With Activists
Lee Jae Wook raised the scoop of his mud-spattered tractor as he braced for a scuffle with activists trying to fly balloons carrying leaflets calling for a revolt against Kim Jong Un across the border to North Korea. “I won’t let them provoke Kim Jong Un into firing shells at my town…”
Nautilus Peace and Security – 30 October
DETERRENCE: Can ASEAN Sell Its Nuclear Free Zone to the Nuclear Club? DPRK: A Conversation with Jang Il Hun (DPRK Ambassador) GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Japanese Village Grappling with Wartime Sins Comes Under Attack CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Better Growth Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: “Here We Go Again” DETERRENCE: Can ASEAN Sell Its Nuclear Free Zone […]
Nuclear Safety Concerns with China’s Growing Reactor Fleet
David Von Hippel and James H. Williams Nautilus Institute 28 October 2014 This paper was originally published with support from the Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 1, No.4. David Von Hippel is a Nautilus Institute Senior Associate working on energy and environmental issues in Asia, including on nuclear spent fuel […]