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Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
Atlantic Council SAG Members Nominated for Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature
The Oxford Handbook of War, edited by Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group members Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer, has been nominated for the prestigious Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature awarded by the Royal United Services Institute.
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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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Russia to Uprgrade Nuclear Weapons Systems
Neil Richard Leslie | September 26, 2008President Dmitri Medvedev announced Friday that Russia would upgrade its nuclear weapons systems by 2020. In a report carried by the Russian news agency Itar-Tass, Medvedev called on military chiefs to submit plans by December for new "warships, primarily nuclear-powered submarines carrying cruise missiles and multifunctional submarines." In addition Medvedev called for "a system of aerospace defence" and said that, "we must guarantee nuclear deterrence under various political and military conditions by 2020."
The announcement comes just weeks after Russia accused the U.S. of starting a new arms race by planning to build a missile defense shield in former Warsaw Pact countries, reports the BBC. Moscow has repeatedly warned the U.S. that if it went ahead with their missile shield, Russia would be "forced to react."
