Reports
Books, reports and resource collections are listed below.
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NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index: Building a Framework for Assurance, Accountability and Action
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Nuclear Materials Security Index is a first-of-its-kind public benchmarking project of nuclear materials security conditions on a country-by-country basis.
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Avoiding Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism: Lessons Learned
Findings and recommendations from an NTI-sponsored “tabletop exercise” which simulated a crisis involving seizures of kilogram-quantities of weapons-usable nuclear material. The report is in Russian and English.
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Small Nuclear Forces: Five Perspectives
Dec. 1, 2011 | Professor Malcolm ChalmersThe Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a partner of the Nuclear Security Project, released a new report called “Small Nuclear Forces: Five Perspectives”. Supported by NTI, the report focuses on nuclear restraint and stability at low numbers from the perspectives of five middle nuclear powers.
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Reducing Nuclear Risks in Europe: A Framework for Action
This new NTI report is designed to help develop an approach to reduce nuclear risks in Europe and contribute to NATO's Deterrence and Defense Posture Review.
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Talking Points: Ten Years of GSN's Quote of the Day
Oct. 4, 2011An anthology of quotes from the "Quote of Day" feature in Global Security Newswire.
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Nuclear Tipping Point: A Teacher's Guide
Oct. 1, 2011Lesson plans and worksheets for high school students, developed in conjunction with the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
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Civilian HEU Reduction and Elimination Resource Collection
Aug. 8, 2011This collection examines civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It discusses why the continued widespread use, internationally, of HEU in the civilian sector poses global security risks, provides an overview of progress to-date in reducing and eliminating the use of HEU in the civilian sector worldwide, and examines remaining challenges to achieving this goal. The collection also includes detailed analysis of progress in eight key countries.
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Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection
Aug. 5, 2011The 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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The Americas 1540 Reporting
Aug. 1, 2011 | Center for Nonproliferation StudiesThis report is part of a collection examining implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, which requires all states to implement measures aimed at preventing non-state actors from acquiring NBC weapons, related materials, and their means of delivery. It details implementation efforts in the Americas to-date.
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NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection
Aug. 1, 2011The 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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UNSCR 1540 Resource Collection
April 20, 2011The UNSCR 1540 Resource Collection examines implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, which requires all states to implement measures aimed at preventing non-state actors from acquiring NBC weapons, related materials, and their means of delivery. It details implementation efforts in all of the regions and countries of the world to-date.
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Submarine Proliferation Resource Collection
April 9, 2011The submarine proliferation resource collection is designed to highlight global trends in the sale and acquisition of diesel- and nuclear-powered submarines. It is structured on a country-by-country basis, with each country profile consisting of information on capabilities, imports and exports.
