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U.S. Nuclear Cooperation as Nonproliferation: Reforms, or the Devil You Know?
Nov. 27, 2012 | Jessica C. VarnumSeveral U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements are set to expire in the next four years, and a long list of nuclear newcomers are interested in concluding new agreements with the United States. Jessica C. Varnum examines the debate over whether stricter nonproliferation preconditions for concluding these new and renewal "123" nuclear cooperation agreements with the United States would enhance or undermine their value as instruments of U.S. nonproliferation policy.
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A Safer Nuclear Enterprise
June 14, 2012 | Steve Andreasen, Sidney Drell, George P. ShultzAn article by Sidney Drell, George Shultz and Steve Andreasen published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science.
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Nuclear Security, Post-Fukushima: Expectations for the Seoul Summit
March 12, 2012 | Michelle Dover, Miles PomperThis CNS issue brief examines challenges the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit faces, in a post-Fukushima world, attempting to integrate nuclear safety issues into the summit agenda without watering down nuclear security objectives. It suggests several areas of complementarity where overlapping progress can be made that enhances rather than detracts from nuclear security efforts.
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The China-Pakistan Nuclear Deal: A Realpolitique Fait Accompli
Dec. 11, 2011 | Sharad JoshiSharad Joshi discusses the motivations behind and implications of China's decision to sell Pakistan two more plutonium-producing heavy-water reactors.
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NTI Adviser John Carlson Speaks to UN General Assembly First Committee
Oct. 13, 2011 | John CarlsonOn Thursday, October 13, NTI adviser John Carlson presented a paper on "Nuclear Energy post Fukushima: Nuclear Governance for the 21st Century" at a briefing of the UN General Assembly's First Committee at the UN in New York. The briefing was held by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNDIR).
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Why Highly Enriched Uranium Is a Threat
Aug. 1, 2011The article is part of a collection examining civilian HEU reduction and elimination efforts. It discusses why the continued widespread use, internationally, of HEU in the civilian sector poses global security risks, and provides an overview of progress to-date in reducing and eliminating the use of HEU in the civilian sector worldwide.
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Isolated Criticality: Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plants, Concepts and Concerns
Nov. 5, 2010 | Thomas YoungThomas Young explores Russia's rationale for the construction of floating nuclear power plants and the associated proliferation, security and environmental concerns.
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Sweden Reverses Nuclear Phase-out Policy
Nov. 11, 2009 | Johan BergenäsJohan Berengäs discusses the history of Sweden's nuclear energy program and Stockholm's decision in 2009 to abandon its phase-out policy.
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NTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn speaks at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting
June 15, 2009 | Sam NunnSenator Nunn describes the three security challenges — verification and enforcement, materials security and fuel cycle — that the technical community must help us meet before it is possible to significantly reduce the nuclear threat, while at the same time expanding the global role of nuclear energy.
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Securing the Nuclear Future
June 15, 2009 | Laura HolgateNTI Vice President Laura Holgate delivers a speech at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting in which she argues that nuclear energy and nuclear nonproliferation are mutually reinforcing and that the path toward a secure nuclear future must involve engaging all relevant voices and aligning the objectives of nuclear commerce and nonproliferation.
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Nuclear cooperation with U.A.E. in our interest
June 3, 2009 | William Cohen, Sam NunnIn an op-ed published in The Hill, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and former Senator Sam Nunn call for broad support for the U.S.-U.A.E. 123 Agreement and argue that it is good for the United States from a U.S. national security standpoint and also good for the international nonproliferation regime.
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NTI President Charles B. CInteraction between the Private Sector and National Strategies Against Nuclear Terrorism
June 16, 2008 | Charles B. CurtisNTI President Charles B. Curtis moderated a panel discussion on "Interaction between the Private Sector and National Strategies Against Nuclear Terrorism" and gave opening remarks at the Fourth Meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in Madrid, Spain.
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