Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn welcome the Joint Statement from the leaders of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States committing to Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races, particularly applauding their affirmation that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
Thirty years after the creation of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to address the potentially catastrophic implications of the collapse of the Soviet Union, NTI Co-Chair Sam Nunn and Vice President Laura S.H. Holgate call for a new paradigm to address today’s nuclear security challenges in a paper, Cooperative Risk Management and Reduction: A New Framework for Nuclear Materials Security.
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The SRR-1 is the smallest research reactor on the world market, and is not capable of producing sufficient fissile material for nuclear weapons production.
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Syria uses phosphate rock (also containing uranium) mined from the Charkiet deposit to produce phosphoric acid at the Homs fertilizer plant.
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Houses a Scud missile base, missile storage, chemical weapons production, and weaponization and testing facilities.
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An underground facility producing several variants of Scud and possibly Chinese M-9 missiles.
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Produces radioisotopes for medical applications, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).
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Conducts research and training on atomic energy and handles the extraction, processing, import, export, and control of radioactive materials.
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Syria agreed to convert the research reactor located at Der Al-Hadjar to one fueled by low-enriched uranium (LEU).
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