Production can resume at NTP Radioisotopes’ Pelindaba facilities after receiving the go-ahead from South Africa’s National Nuclear Regulator (NNR). Preliminary production runs at the NTP processing plant, which the company said had been “effectively” shut down since November 2017 following a series of “safety-related issues”, will be followed by full production. The shutdown was ordered […]

For the past three years, Des Browne, Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, Sam Nunn and their respective organizations—the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Munich Security Conference (MSC), the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)—have been working with former and current officials and experts from a group of Euro-Atlantic states and the […]

On the day the Islamic State overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to fall to a terrorist group: a large metropolis dotted with military bases and garrisons stocked with guns, bombs, rockets and even battle tanks. But the most fearsome weapon in […]

The international community has long recognized cancer and terrorism as global challenges. In 2012, according to data compiled by World Health Organization (WHO), there were 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. The WHO projects that, by 2035, the world could see 24 million new cancer cases and 14.5 million cancer-related […]

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 […]

On February 6–10, 2017, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS) conducted their second joint capacity-building workshop, titled “Nuclear Security Policy and Practice in the African Continent.” AFRICSIS, an independent, science-based non-profit organization established by Mr. Hubert Foy—an alumnus of the Middlebury Institute of […]

Nuclear security experts and diplomats from Europe, North America and 13 African countries have visited a newly installed cancer treatment facility at the National Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

A workshop held at CERN late last year saw physicists, oncologists and industry experts define the design characteristics of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.

In fact, around 80 percent of Africa’s 1.2 billion people have no access to radiotherapy and related cancer services at all. I was shocked to learn that, in Nigeria’s 173 million people, many thousands of people died from cancers that would often be treatable if they lived in a country with enough trained personnel and […]