On May 24, 2018, 14 nuclear security experts, including NPEC’s Executive Director, sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The letter called on Congress “to make sure that with any cooperative...
Below are nuclear cooperative agreements South Korea has reached with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan. The Saudi agreement was secured from the South Korean government; the others were graciously supplied from the personal files of Sharon Squassoni, Professor at George Washington...
NPEC recently asked some of the most senior Bush 41 and Bush 43 nuclear security officials to endorse the 2017 Joint Statement of the International Conference on Japan’s Plutonium Policy. That statement called for Japan to indefinitely postpone Rokkasho’s startup and for South Korea and...
NPEC recently asked some of the most senior Bush 41 and Bush 43 nuclear security officials to endorse the 2017 Joint Statement of the International Conference on Japan’s Plutonium Policy. That statement called for Japan to indefinitely postpone Rokkasho’s startup and for South Korea and China...
NPEC’s Executive Director signs Japanese Plutonium Policy (PuPo) Joint Statement at the 2017 International Conference on the U.S.-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and Japan’s Plutonium Policy Conference. Feb 24, 2017 PuPo 2017 Statement Tokyo 24 February 2017 We, the undersigned, gathered in Tokyo from around the...
Letter to the President from Congressmen Brad Sherman, Jeff Fortenberry, and Adam Schiff regarding the dangers of reprocessing in East Asia. The letter references an earlier letter to Department of Energy Secretary Moniz regarding U.S. efforts to forego the fabrication of plutonium fuel from decommissioned...
Reuters reported on November 12th that Iran has 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) – enough to make one to two bombs, and the IAEA released a report on November 16th in the wake of its inspection of Iran’s new enrichment facility....
(DNA-TR-96-25, draft final report sponsored by the U.S. Defense Special Weapons Agency and Science Applications International Corp., October 1996, unclassified.) NPEC research fellow Robert Zarate wrote a brief summary of this study on the Arms Control Wonk weblog Nov 05, 2009 AUTHOR: William Yengst, Stephen Lukasik and Mark...
The best chance for nations seeking to prevent further nuclear proliferation is to enforce the original presumption of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Article IV, says author Henry Sokolski. Article IV presumes “against the unnecessary spread of unsafeguardable nuclear activities and materials.” In the case of...
Paper presented for the Conference “Germany and Nuclear Nonproliferation”, organized by the Aspen Institute, Berlin and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Washington, D.C, by Joachim Krause, director, Institute for Security Studies at the University of Kiel. Feb 26, 2005 AUTHOR: Joachim Krause German Nuclear Export...
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