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.
Nuclear Weapons 1. Nuclear Testing The BBC reports that the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa) has confirmed that the bodies of thousands of Australian children and adults were posthumously used in scientific nuclear tests without parental consent, with their autopsy samples used for studies in the US, Great Britain and Australia. John […]
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Korea 1. Agreed Framework The Korean Central News Agency released a commentary, saying that the US should bear inescapable responsibility for the delay of DPRK’s two light-water reactors’ construction. If the US side does not compensate the DPRK for its loss, the commentary warned, DPRK will have to restore its construction of graphite reactor to […]
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Proliferation 1. Missile Proliferation Report The current issue of Arms Control Today includes a report detailing the current state of missile proliferation. The report states that only five states besides the de jure nuclear-weapon states possess the capability to indigenously produce ballistic missiles with ranges over 1,000 km. The report states that according to the […]
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Korea 1. Agreed Framework The International Atomic Energy Agency has begun negotiations with the DPRK over access to the nuclear weapons project abandoned by agreement in 1994 under the Agreed Framework. ROK experts have said that inspections are necessary to verify that the DPRK has complied with the 1994 agreement in order for construction to […]
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Missile Defense 1. US Politics US Senator Carl Levin, the next chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that missile defenses would not likely be fielded in President George Bush’s current administration. He added that missile defenses should not be deployed at all until tests have proven the system’s effectiveness. Levin said, “I don’t […]
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Missile Defense 1. US Missile Defense Program The Center for Defense Information released an update to their report on missile defense, which stated that the US Defense Department’s Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) will be reorganized into three parts focusing on the three stages of ballistic missile flight: boost phase, midcourse, and terminal. CDI also […]
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Korea 1. DPRK Agreed Framework The DPRK threatened to pull out of a 1994 nuclear deal with the US, saying the US has failed to uphold terms of the Agreed Framework in which the DPRK agreed to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for two nuclear reactors to be built by a US-led consortium. James […]
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CONTENTS Volume 3, #20 May 21, 2001 Missile Defense US Consultations on Missile Defense Reaction to Consultations: Russia Reaction to Consultations: Europe Reaction to Consultations: PRC Reaction to Consultations: South Asia Commentary on Missile Defense Nuclear Weapons DPRK Agreed Framework PRC Nuclear Test Russian Early Warning Satellites PRC Nuclear Program British Nuclear Tests Security Militarization […]
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Korea 1. US Policy towards DPRK US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher urged the DPRK to continue its moratorium on missile tests and said, “We will conduct our review in a thorough manner and we’ll anticipate completing it in a timely fashion.” US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage stated that it is the DPRK’s […]
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Missile Defense 1. US Missile Defense Program The Acronym Institute released a document with the full text of US President Bush’s speech outlining US intentions on missile defense and arms control. Accompanying are relevant excerpts of statements by officials in the Bush administration, US Congressmen, and heads of foreign governments and international institutions. The statements […]
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