From July 18-22, NSSPI Director Dr. Sunil Chirayath traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee to take part in a nuclear safeguards curriculum development workshop for university professors from Nigeria and Ghana at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The workshop was sponsored by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program.  […]

Chirayath Contributes to Safeguards Curriculum Development Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa

On April 18-22, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) conducted their first joint capacity-building workshop on nuclear security in Africa. The workshop was hosted by AFRICSIS, an independent, science-based non-profit organization established by Hubert Foy, an alumnus of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MAIPS’10), […]

CNS Holds First Nuclear Security Capacity Building Workshop in Africa

This report summarises the outcome of a Professional Development Course on Introduction to Nuclear Security and Safeguards held by AFRICSIS and CNES at Charleston Hotel Tesano in Accra on 3-7 August and 7-11 December 2015. The course was held to build intellectual capacity and transfer of knowledge, by providing an introduction to the varied principles of nuclear security and safeguards for academic faculty […]

Summary Outcome Report of PDC on Nuclear Security and Safeguards

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 […]

Chirayath Lectures at Nuclear Security and Safeguards Professional Development Course for Sub-Saharan Africa

On 15 July 2009, the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone entered into force for 28 of the 53 African Union Member States and three of the five Nuclear Weapon States under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Five years later, a look back at actions and effort of stakeholders in […]

Full Report – Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

The IAEA Board of Governors today approved an agreement with Kazakhstan to establish and operate in Kazakhstan the IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank, which will host a reserve of LEU as an assurance of supply mechanism for Member States in case they cannot obtain LEU on the global commercial market, through State-to-State arrangements, or […]

IAEA Moves Ahead on Establishing Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan

28 Apr 2015 – Academic symposium in the margins of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference: nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and energy: Fresh ideas for the future. The symposium was been hosted by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN – together with UNODA, Harvard and CNS.

Summary on Five Years after Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty of Pelindaba on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps

03.03.2015 — check against delivery– Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, We are living in tense times. The Ukraine conflict, Syria, Iraq, the advance of the ISIS terrorist group in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa – we face a large number of international crises, a situation we have not had to deal with before in […]

Taking Disarmament Forward

The Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will hold its third session from 28 April to 09 May 2014 at the United Nations Office in New York. This meeting is the third of three sessions that will be held prior […]

Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

As of March 30, the processing of the IMS infrasound data at the IDC in Vienna did not offer a clue whether the lost Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 370 could have landed or crashed. However, it would likely not be possible to draw any definitive conclusion that the missing plane neither exploded in the air […]

The CTBTO’s Report on Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 370: An Analysis