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Great Decisions 2017 Discussion Date: Thursday, April 6
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Throughout the world, stockpiles of uranium and plutonium, as well as other radioactive materials, are stored in inadequate facilities. Despite the potential danger, they do not receive the level of scrutiny warranted by the potentially devastating implications of a security failure. -carnegie.org
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Welcome to the final Great Decisions 2017 discussion at the Jacksonville Public Library! You are receiving this newsletter because you have shown an interest in the past about this discussion series or you have requested information about library programming. The program will be held on selected Thursday evenings 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Southeast Regional Library located at 10599 Deerwood Park Ave., close to the intersection of Gate Parkway and J.Turner Butler Boulevard. Great Decisions 2017 Briefing Book, the companion book to the series, is available for purchase online for $25 from the Foreign Policy Association, but is not necessary for participation in the program.
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Week Nine- Nuclear Security Nuclear nonproliferation was a top priority for the Obama administration. While the Iran Deal was a diplomatic victory toward this end, major threats persist from both state and non-state actors. Countries like North Korea, Russia, and India and Pakistan continue to challenge nonproliferation efforts. The possibility that terrorists will carry out an attack using a “dirty bomb,” made from captured nuclear materials, looks increasingly real. In a fractious world, which way forward for U.S. nuclear security policy? - Foreign Policy Association
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February 2: The Future of Europe February 9: Trade and Politics March 2: Conflict in the South China Sea March 9: Saudi Arabia in Transition March 16: U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum March 23: Latin America's Political Pendulum March 30: Prospects for Afghanistan and Pakistan April 6: Nuclear Security
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Winter Updates Check our Winter Update for the latest developments in foreign affairs as well as our Topic Resources pages for additional materials.
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Lt. Col. Michael Brady, USA, (RET) Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brady, USA, (RET), earned his MS in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University in Washington, DC in 2003. LTC Brady is a 1990 graduate of The Citadel, Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, Joint Forces Staff College, US Army Airborne School and US Army Ranger School. His areas of expertise and research include threats to the homeland, intelligence collection systems and programs, intelligence analysis, and intelligence support to national policy making. Michael currently lives in Charleston, SC and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at The Citadel. He also lectures at FSU, a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. Michael spends most of his free time in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Give your opinion on the current list of topics in the 2017 National Opinion Ballot - now available online. Make your voice heard in Washington's policy-making circles with the click of a button.
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News and Analysis Articles
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The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir
by Seyyed Hossein Mousavian
The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news of Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment and plutonium production facilities emerge. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, previously the head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and spokesman for Tehran's nuclear negotiating team, brings the reader into Tehran's private deliberations as its leaders wrestle with internal and external adversaries. (amazon.com)
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The age of deception : nuclear diplomacy in treacherous times
by Mohamed El Baradei
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency discusses his tenure in that position, including his dealings with an aggressive America, negotiations with Iran and attempts to engage North Korea, in a book where the author also discusses the possibility of a nuclear-free future.
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Peddling peril : how the secret nuclear trade arms America's enemies
by David Albright
A leading nuclear proliferation expert chronicles the history of the nuclear black market while challenging popular opinions to contend that Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan is only one of a significantly larger cast of contributors, in an account that evaluates how far the programs of rogue nations have progressed and why illicit nuclear weapons development is so difficult to prevent.
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Meltdown : the inside story of the North Korean nuclear crisis
by Mike Chinoy
A veteran CNN correspondent evaluates North Korea's rapidly developing nuclear weapons program, analyzing what the author contends to be American foreign policy failures that enabled the adversarial nation to acquire nuclear technology. 35,000 first printing.
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Nuclear security
by Helen Cothran
Presents an overview of nuclear security and essays providing differing opinions on nuclear arms control, nuclear testing, and other countries as threats to nuclear security
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North Korea undercover : inside the world's most secret state
by John Sweeney
After posing as a professor to gain undercover access, an award-winning BBC journalist describes what life is truly like in North Korea, where empty factories and hospitals with no electricity are found and the citizens are fed an endless stream of propaganda through ever-present loudspeakers.
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Deception : Pakistan, the United States and the secret trade in nuclear weapons
by Adrian Levy
An eye-opening exposé of A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani scientist who in 1975 stole blueprints for a new nuclear bomb arming device, and Pakistan's nuclear progrm describes how nuclear secrets have been sold to Iran, North Korea, Libya, and others by an illicit Pakistani military program, with the clear knowledge of the U.S. government.
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