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North Korea's Nuclear Test and its Aftermath: Coping with the Fallout

June 25, 2009

CNS staff members discuss North Korea's second nuclear test in May 2009 and the reactions of major stakeholders in the international community.

Article | Testing, Nuclear
Seven Years After the Nuclear Tests: Appraising South Asia's Nuclear Realities

June 1, 2005

In this 2005 article, Gaurav Kampani assesses developments to the nuclear forces of India and Pakistan since the 1998 tests, as well as U.S. nonproliferation efforts in the region.

Article | Nuclear Nonproliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons Programs, Testing, Nuclear
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

April 1, 2003

Lawrence Scheinman provides an overview of the CTBT and discusses key issues influencing the ratification debate in the United States.

Article | Testing, Nuclear, Verification and Monitoring
Case for Ratifying Nuclear Test Ban

June 2, 2009 | Politico

In an op-ed in Politico, Sam Nunn, Bill Perry and Sandy Berger propose a plan for initiating a bipartisan process between the White House and the Senate to reconsider the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Opinion | Nuclear Terrorism, Terrorism, Testing, Nuclear
Global Fissile Material Report 2007

Oct. 26, 2007

Second report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). The Global Fissile Material Report is a yearly overview on stocks and production of fissile materials and on policies that could accelerate their elimination.

Report | Fuel Cycle, HEU Downblending, Highly Enriched Uranium, Low Enriched Uranium, Material Control and Accounting, MOX, Natural Uranium, Naval Propulsion, Nuclear Weapons Complex, Nuclear Weapons Development, Other Fissile Materials, Plutonium, Research Reactors, Safeguards, Testing, Nuclear, Verification and Monitoring
Global Fissile Material Report 2006

Sept. 1, 2006

First report of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM). The Global Fissile Material Report is a yearly overview on stocks and production of fissile materials and on policies that could accelerate their elimination.

Report | Fuel Cycle, HEU Downblending, Highly Enriched Uranium, Low Enriched Uranium, Material Control and Accounting, MOX, Natural Uranium, Naval Propulsion, Nuclear Materials Security, Nuclear Weapons Complex, Nuclear Weapons Development, Other Fissile Materials, Plutonium, Research Reactors, Safeguards, Testing, Nuclear, Verification and Monitoring
Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era

May 1, 2003

This 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 ...

Report | Arms Control, Ballistic Missiles, Biological Weapons Programs, Chemical Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Physical Protection, Testing, Nuclear
A New Basis for Optimism

April 30, 2008

NTI President Charles Curtis addresses participants in the NPT Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference

Speech | Arms Control, Enforcement, Fuel Fabrication, Highly Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Materials Security, Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zones, Nuclear Weapons Development, Plutonium, Reprocessing/Recycling, Safeguards, Testing, Nuclear, Uranium Enrichment, Verification and Monitoring, Weaponization, Nuclear
Sary-Shagan

Oct. 1, 2009

The primary function of Sary-Shagan is testing of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems.

The Sary-Shagan test site conducts work on strategic anti-aircraft defense, anti-ballistic missile defense, and anti-satellite systems. Established in 1956, Sary-Shagan was a natural choice for a test site for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems. It is located about 1,600 km from Russia's Kapustin Yar ...

Facility | Testing, Nuclear
Semipalatinsk Test Site

Oct. 1, 2009

Primary Function: Between 1949 and 1989, 456 nuclear tests, including 340 underground and 116 atmospheric tests, were conducted at Semipalatinsk Test Site facilities[3]

Semipalatinsk Test Site facilities are under the jurisdiction of the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is involved in civilian activities and conversion of the site to non-defense uses. The National Nuclear Center ...

Facility | Nuclear Weapons Programs, Testing, Nuclear
Central Test Site of Russia on Novaya Zemlya

March 22, 2013

Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean consisting of a northern and southern island separated by the Matochkin Shar strait. The Soviet Union authorized construction of "Object-700," at Novaya Zemlya on 31 July 1954. When the Soviet Navy completed construction a year later, Object-700 became the second nuclear test site in the USSR. On 21 September 1955 ...

Facility | Testing, Nuclear
Kyrgyzstan Ratifies Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Oct. 14, 2003

Kyrgyzstan ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Oct. 2, according to the CTBT Organization (see GSN, Sept. 26). The country is home to an auxiliary seismic station; part of a 337-station international system intended to monitor compliance with the treaty. To date, 169 countries have signed the CTBT and 106 have ratified it, including 32 of the 44 nations ...

GSN Article | Nuclear, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament, Testing, Nuclear

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North Korea's Nuclear Test and its Aftermath: Coping with the Fallout

Seven Years After the Nuclear Tests: Appraising South Asia's Nuclear Realities

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Case for Ratifying Nuclear Test Ban

Global Fissile Material Report 2007

Global Fissile Material Report 2006

Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era

A New Basis for Optimism

Sary-Shagan

Semipalatinsk Test Site

Central Test Site of Russia on Novaya Zemlya

Kyrgyzstan Ratifies Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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