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Bibliography0 wallclock secs ( 0.13 usr + 0.01 sys = 0.14 CPU) 15 hits Report Raises Questions About Costs and Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons Press Release (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report “Arming the Heavens: A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons” authored by Steven Kosiak, CSBA’s Vice President for Budget Studies. 11/01/2007 Arming the Heavens Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons 10/31/2007 Defense Roles, Missions, and Requirements Testimony (PDF file - opens in new window) By Andrew Krepinevich Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee 06/20/2007 CSBA Releases New Report: Thinking About Seabasing: All Ahead, Slow Press Release (PDF file - opens in new window) By Natalya Anfilofyeva The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released Thinking About Seabasing: All Ahead, Slow by Senior Analyst Robert Work 10/19/2006 CSBA Releases New Report: Spending on US Nuclear Forces Press Release (PDF file - opens in new window) By Natalya Anfilofyeva The report analyzes options the United States might pursue over the next several decades to modernize its nuclear offensive strategic forces. 09/14/2006 Spending on US Strategic Nuclear Forces Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak The report analyzes options the United States might pursue over the next several decades to modernize its nuclear offensive strategic forces 09/01/2006 The Quadrennial Defense Review: Rethinking the US Military Posture Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Andrew Krepinevich An anlysis of the $441.8 billion request for national defense authority for fiscal year 2006, not including funds for Iraq and Afghanistan. 10/24/2005 The Cruise Missile Challenge Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Thomas Mahnken An analysis of trends in personnel costs and the implications for the DOD plans and programs. 03/10/2005 The Cruise Missile Challenge Overview Backgrounder (PDF file - opens in new window) By Thomas Mahnken A review of the cruise missile challenge, an increasing threat to US security. 11/09/2004 The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations Press Release By Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage CSBA's report recommended that the Nuclear Posture Review consider the merits of a new type of strategic triad. The findings of the NPR released this week track closely with CSBA's recommendation. 01/11/2002 Emerging Capabilities May Permit Fundamental Change in US Strategic Force Posture Press Release By Stacey Shepard In releasing their latest report today on The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations, Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage present a thought-provoiking framework for considering how America's strategic forces might be reshaped to meet tomorrow's 03/21/2001 The Transformation of Strategic-Strike Operations Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Andrew Krepinevich and Robert Martinage A strong case can be made that the United States should take steps to create a new strategic-strike triad, relying on its precision- and electronic-strike capabilities to form two of the three legs, with a smaller residual nuclear force comprising the third leg. 03/00/2001 CSBA Proposes New Defense Strategy Press Release By Stacey Shepard CSBA proposes in its report, A Strategy for a Long Peace, a new defense strategy to respond to the changing security environment and to ensure the US maintains the military superiority to underwrite a long peace. 01/30/2001 A Strategy for a Long Peace Report By Steven Kosiak, Andrew Krepinevich and Michael Vickers The report examines the challenges of the future security environment and explores one transformational path, which the authors believe to be preferable to that pursued in the current defense program. 01/30/2001 The Military Revolution And The Case For Deep Cuts In Nuclear Forces Article-non CSBA pub By Andrew Krepinevich and Steven Kosiak Article discussing how smarter bombs may allow a decrease in nuclear weapons 11/00/1998 |
ProliferationNuclear Proliferation in Asia is a major enduring challenge to U.S. security. Since 1998, India and Pakistan have tested nuclear weapons and created nuclear arsenals. North Korea apparently has nuclear weapons and is producing the fissile material necessary to fabricate more of these devices. Iran, undoubtedly aware of the very different treatment accorded to a nuclear North Korea relative to Saddam Hussein’s non-nuclear Iraq, is vigorously pressing forward with its nuclear weapons program. It is conceivable that before the decade is out, a solid front of nuclear states may stretch from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Japan, through a part of the world increasingly important to U.S. security and economic well-being. The consequences of the rise of this “atomic arc of instability” will be profound. The most important implication of the proliferation of nuclear-armed states is the increase in the likelihood that these weapons will be used. It is unclear whether countries like Iran, North Korea and Pakistan, whose cultures and political systems are profoundly different from our own, will share the American view that nuclear weapons are weapons of last resort. Another major challenge that nuclear proliferation poses is the dramatic change in the global balance of power that will undoubtedly follow in its wake. The United States will not be able to influence the nuclear-armed adversaries the same way it engages non-nuclear states. The array of political and diplomatic instruments of power, as well as military options available to the United States vis-à-vis rogue states armed with nuclear weapons, will be reduced starkly. This seems to be a principal motive for North Korea and Iran in their quest for nuclear weapons. Proliferation begets proliferation. It is conceivable that nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of nonstate entities as a consequence of corruption or state failure. Nor can one discount the possibility that a state like North Korea, which proliferates ballistic missile technology, or Pakistan, whose prime nuclear scientist was running a nuclear weapons production materials bazaar, would consciously provide, for a price, nuclear weapons or fissile material to other states and nonstate groups. The diffusion of nuclear materials heralds the era of the Second Nuclear Regime. The First Regime, which began with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and ended during the 1990s, was characterized by a few mature powers possessing nuclear weapons and observing a tradition of non-use of these weapons. Now the former characteristic no longer holds, and the latter is open to debate. |