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March 17, 2022: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Spotlights the Dangers of Nuclear Reactors in War

NPEC’s Books

Peering into Our Nuclear Future: Selected Writings of Victor Gilinsky

Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits

Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, Second Edition

Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures, Volume II: Energy Scenarios

Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures, Volume I: Military Scenarios

Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Nuclear Weapons: Exploding the Myths

Nuclear Rules, Not Just Rights: The NPT Reexamined

Should We Let the Bomb Spread?

Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?

Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation

Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?

The Next Arms Race

Pure Risk: Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees

Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk

Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation

Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran

Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice

Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

Planning for a Peaceful Korea

Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation

Fighting Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties

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NPEC’s Podcasts and Audio Clips

Outer Space Treaty, Russia, and Iran: Surrogate Spying in Low Earth Orbit

August 8, 2022

Violence has damaged infrastructure near a Ukraine power plant, sparking safety fears

August 8, 2022

Ukraine: Occupying Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants is a war crime & What is to be done

August 1, 2022

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NPEC’s Occasional Papers

Arresting Nuclear Adventurism: China, Article VI, and the NPT

Hot Mess Next: Missile-Struck Reactors in the Middle East

More than We Need: Projected World Uranium Enrichment Capacity

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NPEC in the Media

August 10, 2022: National Public Radio report quotes NPEC analysis on why the IAEA cannot follow Russia’s conditions to access the plant at Zaporizhzhia without confirming it is “owned” by Russia, an NPT weapons state that is under no obligation to allow inspections.

August 8, 2022: CBS Eye on the World interviews NPEC’s Executive Director on “Outer Space Treaty, Russia, and Iran: Surrogate Spying in Low Earth Orbit.”

August 8, 2022: National Public Radio spotlights NPEC analysis of some of the key safety issues military assaults against nuclear power plants, including those in Ukraine