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AnalysisSaudi Nuclear Intentions and the IAEA Small Quantities Protocol
Saudi Arabia’s recent signing of the International Atomic Energy Agency Small Quantities Protocol raises larger issues of potential nuclear ambitions on the Arabian Peninsula. With the cooling off of relations between Riyadh and Washington, and the resultant retreat of U.S. se...
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Analysis
Base Closings Meant To Bypass Politics
CDI Senior Advisor Lawrence Korb argues that because the base realignment and closure process was created to take the politics out of the process, lobbying efforts to save military bases are a waste of time and money.
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Analysis
Summary of North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal
It is difficult to accurately gauge North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Based on intelligence reports of the quantity of plutonium they possess, it is reasonable to estimate they have as many as eight to 11 weapons.
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AnalysisPork Invades War Funding: U.S. Senators Pad Supplementals
CDI Visiting Senior Fellow Winslow Wheeler argues in his Defense News Op-Ed that the Senate has sunk to new depths in adding pork projects to the emergency supplemental. Worse, some of these irrelevant items actually were included at the expense of legitimate military operatio...
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Analysis
State Department Reports on the Use of Child Soldiers
Excerpts from the 2004 State Department Human Rights Reports relating to the use of children in armed conflict.