When experts discuss the prospects of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), they naturally focus on impending events. Will nonaligned nations tie their continued adherence to reaching a comprehensive test ban? Will North Korea, Algeria, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, and Iran live up to their NPT obligations? Will some follow through on their threats to withdraw from the treaty? Is China, which is building more nuclear weapons and refused to agree to limit them, in violation of the treaty’s demand that nuclear weapons states limit their nuclear arms? Will the NPT’s inspectorate, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), strengthen its inspection procedures? Can certain nuclear materials and activities ever be reliably inspected to detect and prevent their military diversion? The answers to these questions will determine not only the future of the NPT but the prospects for nuclear restraint.
In an article published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “Exporting Power Reactors: No Way to Fight Proliferation,” NPEC Executive Director Henry Sokolski and NPEC Program Advisor Victor Gilinsky explain the problems with the argument that the U.S. government must subsidize nuclear power reactor...
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...
John Batchelor and Gordon Chang interview NPEC’s Executive Director on the possible decertification of the Iran Deal and the case for a follow-on agreement. Oct 12, 2017AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Listen on Audioboom
In September 2017, John Lauder gave a talk on nuclear agreements with Iran and North Korea at UT Austin through NPEC’s Speakers’ Consortia series. Sep 27, 2017
NPEC hosted a Capitol Hill policy lunch forum onSeptember 14,”America’s and Japan’s Other Emerging Nuclear Problem: Tons of “Peaceful” Plutonium.” The forum featured a panel of visiting Diet members and experts from Japan who came to draw attention to the planned expansion of “peaceful” commercial...
Henry Sokolski and Patrick Malone discuss Trump’s NPR and nuclear nonproliferation in the US. Jul 27, 2017AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski and Patrick Malone Trump’s nuclear posture review: What to expect (part 1) How sensible might Trump’s NPR be? (part 2) What issues might Trump’s NPR back...
NPEC’s Program Advisor, Executive Director, and Bruce Goodwin, former associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, publish a piece in The Japan Times, “Commercial plutonium a bomb material,” which spells out the tactical reasons why reactor-grade plutonium can be used to make bombs. May 31, 2017...
Dr. Gilinsky — a Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner during the Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations — co-authored this report with Marvin Miller and Harmon Hubbard in October 2004. The report’s larger argument was recently cited in Bret Stephen’s column, “Giving Iran the Bomb” (Wall Street Journal, October 31,...
When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, passions run deep. But whether one is against the deal or for it, there should be no debate over one thing: It is in nobody’s interest to ignore any known gaps in the plan’s nuclear safeguards. As...
A bipartisan group of nuclear and security policy experts urge the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to support stricter Congressional oversight of U.S. nuclear cooperation agreements, including H.R. 3766, the nonproliferation Gold Standard. Full text of letters and...
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