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 on PRC Military Threat US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Wednesday it is unclear whether an increasingly strong PRC will emerge as a force for peace in East Asia or as a “threatening power.” “China’s future is very much to be shaped,” said Wolfowitz, speaking to reporters in advance of […]
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United States 1. US-Russia Nuclear Weapons Reduction Treaty US President Bush and the Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin signed the Treaty of Moscow on May 24. A treaty in which both countries agree to cut their nuclear warheads by two thirds. Under the Treaty of Moscow, each country will reduce its arsenals to between 1,700 […]
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United States 1. US-Russia Arms Treaty Russia backed down over a key demand in nuclear arms talks with the US to ensure that a treaty slashing arsenals was ready for a summit next week, a senior US administration official said Tuesday. He said Russia had focused on the core issue — cutting deployed nuclear warheads […]
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United States 1. US 2003 Defense Spending US House Republicans pushed for approval of the biggest increase in military spending in a generation on Thursday. US lawmakers moved toward a vote even as Democrats objected to provisions in the US$383 billion measure outlining 2003 defense spending that would exempt the military from major environmental laws. […]
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United States 1. Russia-US Arms Control The US and Russian defense chiefs reported modest progress Monday toward a nuclear arms agreement but gave no indication they had settled the major stumbling blocks. “We’re making progress, and the meetings will continue later this week in Washington,” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said, referring to meetings scheduled […]
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United States 1. Russia-US Arms Control Russian and US arms negotiators failed on April 24 to bridge differences over an accord on strategic nuclear arms cuts, wrapping up talks a day early with a presidential summit only a month away. Russia’s foreign minister Georgy Mamedov played down the abrupt departure of top US arms control […]
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United States 1. US Missile Defense Developments The US has no plans to arm anti-missile interceptors with nuclear explosives, a defense official told Congress on Wednesday, but he acknowledged that “some people are thinking about it.” A top science adviser to the Pentagon has said that scientists are studying the idea of using nuclear explosions […]
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United States 1. US Violations of International Treaties The US is increasingly violating and undermining major international security treaties in a slide away from rule of law toward the rule of power, according to a new study released on Thursday. According to the study, the trend began under former US President Bill Clinton but has […]
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United States 1. US-Russia Nuclear Relations On March 29, it was announced that US and Russian negotiators have made so much progress on offensive weapons and a new strategic framework that US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin may sign agreements on both at their Moscow summit in May, the State Department […]
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United States 1. US Nuclear Posture Review The Bush administration, in its Nuclear Posture Review completed early this year, has ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against at least seven countries: PRC, Russia, Iraq, DPRK, Iran, Libya and Syria, as well as to build smaller nuclear weapons for […]
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