According to the confidential quarterly IAEA report, distributed to member states on Sept. 4 and seen by PassBlue, as of Aug. 25, Iran had stockpiled 2105.4 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, an increase of 533.8 kilograms since the previous quarterly report, in June. The nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), allows Iran to […]

Indeed, the international community has become increasingly divided over the role of nuclear deterrence, the vision of nuclear disarmament and the commitment of states to arms reduction, and the steps required to prevent nuclear weapons use. For these reasons, NTI in 2018 launched the Global Enterprise to Strengthen Nonproliferation and Disarmament (GE)—a multi-year initiative to facilitate […]

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the entry-into-force of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2020, it is essential the NPT can evolve to meet contemporary security challenges, including by contributing meaningfully to nuclear disarmament. More broadly, re-establishing international consensus on the security value of disarmament and arms control is vital to safeguard not […]

Partnering with the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS), the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) offered as a new initiative an Intensive Course on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM in Accra, Ghana, from February 11–15, 2019.

ANNOUNCEMENT The African Centre for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), will offer an intensive course on “Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security for Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)” for researchers, practitioners, and other specialists from the African […]

In recent discussions of the United States President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the United Nations and affiliated agencies, a controversial issue has been whether the cut will reduce or end direct funding to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a U.N.–nuclear watchdog the United States helped create in 1957. The Agency’s aim is […]

U.S. leaders from both sides of the aisle have consistently supported global efforts to prevent terrorists from stealing, transporting or using nuclear materials to wreak destruction and panic. Much of this work is accomplished through direct cooperation among the United States and other countries who wish to secure nuclear materials, improve nuclear detection, beef up […]

Thwarting nuclear terrorism should be added to the list. The risk of a nuclear terror attack in Washington or Moscow — or anywhere on the planet — cannot be ignored due to other disagreements. It would take only one nuclear terror attack to radically alter our way of life.

Every five years, leaders gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review implementation of the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

NSSPI Interim Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath participated in the second part of a joint professional development course with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP), the US Department of State’s Partnership for Nuclear Security (PNS), and the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS).  The objectives of this course were […]