What Is Safeguards Effectiveness?
The term “safeguards effectiveness” means the effectiveness of IAEA verification—that is, the ability of the IAEA to detect non-compliance.
Ensuring Safeguards Sustainability
The ways sustainability of the IAEA safeguards system can be ensured by the agency, its Member States, and the international community
Reflections on Safeguards Culture
The concepts of “nuclear safety culture” and“nuclear security culture” are well established in IAEA practice, but no similar terminology is used for nuclear safeguards.
Efficiency of IAEA Safeguards Implementation and Innovation
The IAEA safeguards system ensures that the nuclear material and activities falling under the scope of agreements between the IAEA and states are not being used to build nuclear weapons or any other nuclear explosive devices.
NTI and CENESS Offer Recommendations to Strengthen International Nuclear Safeguards
New approaches to strengthen international safeguards. The papers are the result of a 2021 project aimed at bridging a growing gap between Russian and U.S.-Western views on the effectiveness and sustainability of IAEA safeguards.
NTI’s Lynn Rusten Discusses Biden Administration’s Nuclear Policy on Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Panel
Lynn Rusten, vice president of the Global Nuclear Policy Program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, joined Adam Mount, senior fellow and director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, for a Bulletin of Atomic Scientists panel discussion of the Biden administration’s emerging nuclear policy.
Horizon 2045: Imagining a Nuclear Weapons-Free Future
Closing the gap: Establishing a new UN mechanism for discerning the source of pandemics of unknown origins
The current conflict in Ukraine has caused severe disruption to regional and global security, including growing concerns about the potential use of unconventional weapons.
NTI Hosts Cyber-Nuclear Forum meeting in France
More than 40 experts from nuclear operators across 15 countries and several international organizations worked to develop practical steps to strengthen cybersecurity at nuclear facilities during the fifth meeting of NTI’s Cyber-Nuclear Forum earlier this month.
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Joint Assessment Mechanism to Determine Pandemic Origins
NTI is working with international partners to create a new international mechanism to rapidly assess pandemic origins.