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	<description>Dr Marko Beljac</description>
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		<title>OK, So Where Is The Obama Nuclear Weapons Planning Guidance?</title>
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The 2002 Nuclear Posture Review excerpts are dated 18 January 2002. On 28 June 2002 George W Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive 14, which of course was nuclear weapons planning guidance. That's about a 5 month gap between the NPR and the change in guidance. President Clinton didn't change the guidance that he inherited, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=444</link>
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		<title>Why Darwin BondGraham is Right About Nuclear Weapons Abolition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not seen the movie Countdown to Zero, a doco on nuclear weapons abolition, so I cannot comment about the specifics of the film. I have seen the promo, but one doesn't make conclusions about a book after reading the blurb and the same applies to promos for movies. 
But I do know a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=441</link>
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		<title>Australia Moves to the Left: The 2010 Federal Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is also posted at my Maxim international relations blog at The Analyst.
For the first time since 1945 Australian public opinion is to the left of the Australian Labor Party. The Labor Party has leaked votes to the Greens. Three conservative, but state-interventionist minded, independents seemingly hold the balance of power in the House. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=438</link>
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		<title>National Research Council Report on Nuclear Forensics Exposes the Soft Underbelly of Deterrence Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following blog entry has also been cross-posted at my Maxim international relations blog published at The Analyst.
The National Research Council in the United States has published a very important study on the current status of nuclear forensics. Only the executive summary has been declassified. Nuclear forensics has often been described as an “art.” I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=435</link>
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		<title>Introducing &#8220;The Analyst&#8221;, A New and Exciting Online Media Project. Oh, and It Is Good to be Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By rights I should have been born in Holland, and lived there for a couple of years, but alas I was pretty rapt to see Spain win the World Cup especially given that the nucleus of the team hailed out of Barcelona. Barce is indeed "more than a club."
At any rate, I write this blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=432</link>
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		<title>A Delusion of Grandeur: Kevin Rudd in Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Graham Freudenberg was able to write of Gough Whitlam's political career that it exhibited “a certain grandeur”, then for Kevin Rudd we might speak of “a delusion of grandeur.”
Many of his most vocal supporters shared in this delusion. For instance his lead cheerleader amongst the Australian intelligentsia, Robert Manne, even went so far as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=428</link>
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		<title>Despite Julia Gillard&#8217;s Support for Neoliberalism, Progressives in Australia Should Now Back Her</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia has a new Prime Minister after the bursting of the Rudd asset price bubble. As I stated long ago, when the Rudd bubble was in full flight, his leadership of the ALP was based on little else but his high poll numbers. These numbers were a bubble, I had argued, for Rudd was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Has Afghanistan Turned Into a War of Attrition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For President Obama Afghanistan is staring to resemble the BP oil spill. It's looking like a real PR disaster for the Obama administration. Everybody is focusing on the extraordinary bust up between General McChrystal and the Obama White House following leaks of a forthcoming interview that the General gave Rolling Stone magazine. That interview was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=422</link>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Mounting Casualties in Afghanistan Reignites Debate on the War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent multiple deaths of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan has reignited the debate on Australia's role in the conflict. Polls, according to media reports, suggest that public opposition to Australia's participation in the Afghan war is increasing as the human toll mounts.
It would come as no secret to anybody that has read my posts and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=418</link>
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		<title>Why We Have to Save Kevin Rudd from Oblivion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post from my The Vile Maxim blog that I also post here given the importance of the issue.
I can’t stand Kevin Rudd. I have always believed that Rudd is exactly as Mark Latham described him in his diaries. Recent events have borne this out, and the Latham view is now widely shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scisec.net/?p=414</link>
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