Highlights
Overview
Technical Background
The Threat
Securing Nuclear Warheads and Materials
Interdicting Nuclear Smuggling
Stabilizing Employment for Nuclear Personnel
Monitoring Stockpiles
Ending Further Production
Reducing Stockpiles

 

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

February2007

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Securing the Bomb 2006Securing the Bomb 2006
The latest report in our series, from May 2006, finds that even though the gap between the threat of nuclear terrorism and the response has narrowed in recent years, there remains an unacceptable danger that terrorists might succeed in their quest to get and use a nuclear bomb, turning a modern city into a smoking ruin. Offering concrete steps to confront that danger, the report calls for world leaders to launch a fast-paced global coalition against nuclear terrorism focused on locking down all stockpiles of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear materials worldwide as rapidly as possible.
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Securing the Bomb 2005Securing the Bomb 2005:
The New Global Imperatives

Our May 2005 report finds that while the United States and other countries laid important foundations for an accelerated effort to prevent nuclear terrorism in the last year, sustained presidential leadership will be needed to win the race to lock down the world's nuclear stockpiles before terrorists and thieves can get to them.
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Securing the Bomb: An Agenda for Action
Building on the previous years' reports, this 2004 NTI-commissioned report grades current efforts and recommends new actions to more effectively prevent nuclear terrorism. It finds that programs to reduce this danger are making progress, but there remains a potentially deadly gap between the urgency of the threat and the scope and pace of efforts to address it.
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Controlling Nuclear Warheads and Materials:
A Report Card and Action Plan

2003 report published by Harvard and NTI 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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Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Seven Steps for Immediate Action
2002 report co-published by Harvard and NTI outlines seven urgent steps to reduce the threat of stolen nuclear weapons or materials falling into the hands of terrorists or hostile states.
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Controlling

This NTI-commissioned report recommending steps to accelerate and strengthen efforts to secure nuclear stockpiles around the globe, was released at a March 12, 2003, press conference featuring NTI Chairman and retired Senator Sam Nunn, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, and report co-authors Matthew Bunn and Anthony Wier. Produced by Harvard University's Project on Managing the Atom, the report provides a comprehensive assessment of the danger that terrorists could get hold of stolen nuclear weapons or the materials and expertise needed to make them, the programs underway to address that threat, and what more remains to be done.
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Matthew Bunn, Anthony Wier, and John P. Holdren, Controlling Nuclear Warheads and Materials: A Report Card and Action Plan (Washington, D.C.: Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University, March 2003).

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Foreword, by Senator Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn
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Executive Summary

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Part I: Setting the Stage

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1. Introduction
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2. The Threat
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3. Blocking the Terrorist Pathway to the Bomb
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Part II: Assessing the Current Response
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4. Input Measures: "Everything in Our Power"?
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5. Output Measures: How Much is Done, and How Fast is the Rest Getting Done?
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6. Applying the Office of Management and Budget's Assessment Approach
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7. Why the Gap between Threat and Response?
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Part III: Recommendations for the Future
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8. Summary of Recommendations
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9. Crosscutting Steps to Organize the Response
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10. Securing Warheads and Materials
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11. Interdicting Nuclear Smuggling
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12. Stabilizing Employment for Nuclear Personnel
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13. Monitoring Stockpiles and Reductions

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14. Ending Production

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15. Reducing Stockpiles

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16. Conclusions

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Appendix A: Anecdotes of Nuclear Insecurity

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Appendix B: The Demand for Black Market Fissile Material
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About the Authors, Acknowledgements, and About the Project on Managing the Atom

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