In November 2007, The National Intelligence Council issued an NIE, Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities on the scope status of clandestine effort to build a nuclear weapon. Although NIE remains classified, descriptions Estimate offered in reports essays this symposium describe painstaking efforts made by professionals from across intelligence community get both analysis presentation judgm...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945. The energy yields were equivalent to 12 500 tonnes and 20 000 tonnes of high explosive. Yields from thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs) range up to several megatons (Mt). Between 1945 and the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, over 2000 nuclear tests were carried out by the USA, USSR, Britain, France and China, plus one by India. Mo...

time-dependent schrödinger equation for a 1-d model of hydrogen molecular ion h2+ in intenselaser field linearly polarized along the molecular axis is solved. ionization rates are calculated for differentinitial states. the evolution of electronic wavefunction at fixed inter-nuclear separations are simulated andanalyzed. the results obtained for the ground state of this 1-d model of h2+ show ap...

the 56th pugwash conference on science and world affairs opened with a key note address by the italian minister of foreign affairs, massimo d’alema, and the un secretary-general ban ki-moon’s message in bari, italy, on 21 october 2008. in the week-long meeting, the participants discussed a wide array of topics related to regional security issues such as the status of nuclear arms control, the r...

Indonesia holds a key role as host of the G20 Presidency in 2022. Many international media highlighted this summit and issues that has been discussed inside.As world economic forum, also reviewed about security issue, one it is nuclear weapon threat. This study identifies, analyze, compares content produced by (Kompas.com), United Kingdom (BBC.co.uk), Saudi Arabia's online news (aawsat.com), su...

The Japanese plutonium program continues to dwell on the minds of nuclear nonproliferation watchers. Japan remains the only non-nuclear weapon state that is operating uranium enrichment and reprocessing plants, all of which are technically capable of producing fissile materials for nuclear weapons. The magnitude of these projects exceeds those of other nations that have either abandoned or post...

Estimating the size of India’s inventory of separated weapon-grade plutonium has become more difficult following its nuclear tests in May 1998. India treats this number as highly classified, partly because such estimates provide a direct indication of the number of nuclear weapons it may possess. The purpose of this report is to summarize estimates of its stock of weapon-grade plutonium. A comp...

A methodology is described that combines an earlier empirical model of nuclear reliance (fraction of the electricity of a state that is produced by nuclear energy) with US Energy Information Administration projections of worldwide regional electricity demand to yield state-by-state projections of future electrical generation from nuclear energy. The following conclusions are drawn from comparis...