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The ROK’s Nuclear Energy Development and Spent Fuel Management Plans

by Jungmin Kang 10 July 2014 Originally published 5 March 2014 for Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. I. Status of and Prospects for Nuclear Power in the Republic of Korea One of the most rapidly growing developed countries in the world today, South Korea (the Republic of Korea, or ROK) has been increasingly relying on […]

Nautilus Peace and Security – 12 June

DETERRENCE: Exposed: North Korea’s New Anti-ship missiles and 130 kilometer range are a big threat to South Korea
DPRK: Exposed: North Korea’s New Anti-ship missiles and 130 kilometer range are a big threat to South Korea
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Location, Location, Some Frustration
ENERGY SECURITY: The Right Lessons from Chernobyl
AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: The Blunder Down Under

Policy Forum – “Six Party Talks and Multilateral Security Cooperation”

http://www.china.org.cn/english/congress/227979.htm

“Six Party Talks and Multilateral Security Cooperation” Building a New Security Architecture in Northeast Asia May 29, 2014 Presented to 9th Jeju Forum Panel by Peter Hayes, Director at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. 1. Six Party Talks and Multilateral Security Cooperation It is self-evident that the Six Party Talks (6PT) as we knew […]

NAPSNet Weekly – 6 June 2014

DETERRENCE: Oral History, Lt. Gen. John Cushman
DPRK: North Korea to Re-Open Investigation into Abduction of Japanese Citizens Decades Ago
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate Stress, Behavioral Adaptation and Subjective Well Being in Coastal Cities of India
ENERGY SECURITY: Risk of Nuclear Accidents ‘Rising’
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: Third National Climate Assessment

DETERRENCE: Oral History, Lt. Gen. John Cushman, US Army Retired, (Volume II, V)

As Commander of the US-ROK I Corps from 1976-78, Gen. John Cushman concluded that US-ROK artillery and rocket units could not gather intelligence, select targets, control nuclear fires, and coordinate nuclear strikes with maneuver units, and would not pass audit. His overriding aim was to defend his sector without being forced to consider nuclear war. (vol. V, 22-7) [PDF, 2.7MB]

Korea 1976-78, A Memoir, John Cushman, April 1998, p. 26. [PDF, 4.4MB]
John H. Cushman, “Military Options in Korea’s End Game”, NAPSNet Policy Forum, May 23, 1994

NAPSNet Weekly – 29 May 2014

DETERRENCE: China Calls for New Asian Security Structure
DPRK: China Agrees North Korea’s Nuclear Activities a Serious Threat, Says South
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Why are China’s Neighbors so Afraid of Her?
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Identifying Vulnerable Populations in Subtropical Brisbane, Australia: A Guide for Heatwave Preparedness and Health Promotion
ENERGY SECURITY: John Browne, Former Chief Executive at BP, becomes the Face of Fracking in Britain
AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Ballistic Missile Defence: How Soon, How Significant, and What should Australia’s Policy Be?

Renewable Energy Burst in Japan

by Kae Takase 28 May 2014 (Originally published February 9, 2014 for Hanyang University Energy Governance and Security (EGS) Center.) I. INTRODUCTION In the tragic aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake (the Great East Japan Earthquake) and tsunami, and the resulting Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, as all of Japan’s fleet of nuclear reactors were shut down, apparently […]

NAPSNet – Weekly 22 May 2014

DETERRENCE: The Presidential Nuclear Initiatives of 1991-1992
DPRK: North Korea’s Senior Nuclear Negotiator Spotted in Beijing
GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Sewol Victims’ Families Form Committee to Demand a Government Investigation
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Integrating Local Hybrid Knowledge and State Support for Climate Change Adaptation in the Asian Highlands
ENERGY SECURITY: Unseasonal Rain, Hail in Kutch, Saurashtra
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: Climate Change, Migration, and Non-Traditional Security Threats in China: Complex Crisis Scenarios and Policy Options for China and the World

Policy Forum – Electric Chaiwallas

by Lalloobhoy Battiwala 1 April 2014 I. INTRODUCTION Kirk R. Smith wrote in an e-mail on his trip in Odisha, ’Another unforeseen revelation occurred on the trip, however. On the 3-hour drive back to the airport in the evening, the car driver pointed out to us that all the “chaiwallahs” (tea sellers) along the highway now […]

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 15 May 2014

DETERRENCE: J. On-Fat Wong, Security Requirements in Northeast Asia<...

“Mutual Probable Destruction”: Nuclear Next-Use in a Nuclear-Armed East Asia?

by Peter Hayes 14 May 2014 I. Introduction Peter Hayes, Director of Nautilus Institute, writes that John on-fat Wong’s 1982 dissertation, Security Requirements in Northeast Asia, provides an important corrective for shallow thinking that informs calls for South Korea and Japan to proliferate nuclear weapons to match those of North Korea or the existing nuclear weapons states in […]