Reports
Books, reports and resource collections are listed below.
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Accelerating the Blend Down of Russian HEU
June 1, 2005 | FSUE Central Research Institute Of Management, Economics and Information of Rosatom of Russa, Nuclear Threat InitiativeA joint report by NTI and Atominform, a Russian research institute, evaluating the potential for accelerating the blend-down of Russian highly enriched uranium, the first detailed analysis of the technical, cost, and schedule issues associated with various options to go beyond the current annual blend down rate of 30 metric tons of HEU, if governments were to adopt such a policy.
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Avoiding Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism: Lessons Learned
Findings and recommendations from an NTI-sponsored “tabletop exercise” simulating a crisis involving seizures of kilogram-quantities of weapons-usable nuclear material. The report is in Russian and English.
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Beyond the Nuclear Shadow: A Phased Approach to Improving Nuclear Safety and U.S.-Russian Relations
May 1, 2003 | Lynn E. David, David R. Howell, David E. Mosher, Lowell H. SchwartzA RAND report warns of the danger of accidental or unauthorized nuclear weapons launch and recommends actions to enhance nuclear safety.
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Building Mutual Security in the Euro-Atlantic Region: Report Prepared for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Parliamentarians, and Publics
This report is the result of a Track II dialogue including distinguished former senior political leaders, senior military officers, defence officials, and security experts from Europe, Russia, and the United States.
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Catastrophic Terrorism: Report of the Meeting Organized by the Center of International Studies, University of Cambridge
Nov. 18, 2002 | Centre of International Studies, University of CambridgeReport of the Meeting organised by the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge on November 18 –19, 2002.
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Central Asia and the Caucasus 1540 Reporting
Aug. 21, 2012This 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 Central Asia and the Caucasus to-date.
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Central and Eastern Europe and Russia 1540 Reporting
Aug. 22, 2012This 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 Eastern and Southeastern Europe to-date.
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Civilian HEU Reduction and Elimination Resource Collection
March 25, 2013This 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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Controlling Nuclear Warheads and Materials: A Report Card and Action Plan 2003
March 1, 2003 | Matthew Bunn, Jonathan P. Holdren, Anthony WierThis report measures the progress made in keeping nuclear weapons and materials out of terrorist hands, and outlines a comprehensive plan to reduce the danger.
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Cooperative Threat Reduction for a New Era
Sept. 1, 2004 | Daniel L. Burghart, James E. Goodby, Cheryl A. Loeb, Charles L. ThorntonA report from The National Defense University argues the importance of expanding Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and funds beyond Russia in order to address the issue of global nuclear proliferation.
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Coordinating Submarine Dismantlement Assistance in Russia
Sept. 1, 2004 | Center for Nonproliferation StudiesA report by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) discusses the coordination challenges associated with international assistance to decommissioning Russia's obsolete nuclear-powered submarines. Their dismantlement has been identified as one of the priority areas for the Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, initiated at the G8 summit in Kananaskis, Canada in June of 2002.
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Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era
May 1, 2003 | Thomas Graham, Jr., Damien J. LaVeraThis book offers a chronology and history of international efforts to control weapons of mass destruction through legal arrangements. It covers more than forty agreements, negotiated during the last eight decades, to control conventional nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in outer space, the Antarctic, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and on the ocean floor. The treaties are placed in context by individual commentaries from Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Damien J. LaVera.
