Articles
Read articles by NTI board members, officers and staff, as well as NTI partners, including the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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Expanding Safeguards in Nuclear-Weapon States
May 22, 2012 | NTI Paper | John CarlsonA paper by John Carlson, expanding on a presentation to the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management in July 2011
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Nuclear Disarmament Italy
May 21, 2012The Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection contains information and analysis of nuclear weapons disarmament proposals and progress worldwide, including detailed coverage of disarmament progress in countries who either possess or host other countries' nuclear weapons on their territories.
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Nuclear Disarmament NATO
May 21, 2012The Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection contains information and analysis of nuclear weapons disarmament proposals and progress worldwide, including detailed coverage of disarmament progress in countries who either possess or host other countries' nuclear weapons on their territories.
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Nuclear Disarmament Turkey
May 21, 2012The Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection contains information and analysis of nuclear weapons disarmament proposals and progress worldwide, including detailed coverage of disarmament progress in countries who either possess or host other countries' nuclear weapons on their territories.
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Chicago and Beyond
May 14, 2012 | Nuclear Threat InitiativeNTI describes what to expect at NATO's upcoming Chicago Summit and why NATO countries should ensure that the outcome in Chicago lays the groundwork for changing the status quo on nuclear issues beyond Chicago.
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Delaying Decisions: NATO's Deterrence and Defense Posture Review
May 11, 2012 | Miles Pomper, Nikolai Sokov, Meghan WarrenAt the May 2012 NATO summit, the alliance will release the results of a Defense and Deterrence Posture Review. The review is expected to yield little progress; critical decisions on NATO’s deterrence and defense posture are expected to be delayed. This brief examines options for the future deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe as well as other measures that policymakers are likely to consider to provide deterrence, reassurance, and burden-sharing in the alliance in the years ahead.
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INENS Insights: The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index: Building a Framework for Assurance, Accountability, and Action
May 4, 2012In INENS Insights, NTI discusses the NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index and the lead up to the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit.
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Between Publishing and Perishing? H5N1 Research Unleashes Unprecedented Dual-Use Research Controversy
May 3, 2012 | Michael TuRecently, researchers in the Netherlands and the United States identified genetic mutations that could enable H5N1 bird flu to become easily transmissible from one human to another. Controversy has emerged about whether the details of these two particularly sensitive H5N1 studies should be openly published to aid global pandemic preparedness or withheld in the interests of national security. Because similar trade-offs will emerge frequently in the field of biotechnology, the task of devising effective management strategies for so-called "dual-use research of concern" will continue to increase in both complexity and importance.
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2011 NIS Nuclear Trafficking
April 26, 2012The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.
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Namibia: 170 kg of Natural Uranium Stolen from Rossing Mine
April 26, 2012This article is part of a collection examining reported incidents of nuclear or radioactive materials trafficking in or originating from the Newly Independent States.
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Moldova: DU Smuggling Criminal Case Transferred to Court (update to case 20100080)
April 26, 2012This article is part of a collection examining reported incidents of nuclear or radioactive materials trafficking in or originating from the Newly Independent States.
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Ukraine: Radioactive Parcel Detected at Kiev Airport
April 26, 2012Ukraine: Radioactive Parcel Detected at Kiev Airport
