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Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas Recent Developments and Trends 2007

Matthew Bunn

Professor, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Anthony Wier

Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas Recent Developments and Trends

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Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas Recent Developments and Trends

Understanding
the Nuclear Threat

Reducing the risk of nuclear use by terrorists and nation-states requires a broad set of complementary strategies targeted at reducing state reliance on nuclear weapons, stemming the demand for nuclear weapons and denying organizations or states access to the essential nuclear materials, technologies and know-how.

In Depth

Global Security Newswire

Produced by National Journal
  • Oak Ridge Security Guard Caught Sleeping Quits

    Jan. 27, 2012

    A security officer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee quit on Thursday after admitting he fell asleep while standing guard at a secured structure and had made calls on a cellular telephone in breach of company policy, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

  • Nunn-Lugar Program Secures Five Nuke Shipments

    Oct. 25, 2011

    The U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in August helped to ensure the security of five nuclear-weapon train shipments, according to Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) (see GSN, Sept. 26).