WASHINGTON—A diverse group of officials from more than 25 countries are developing a plan of action to build international capacity and address difficult monitoring and verification challenges that will need to be addressed in future arms control and nonproliferation agreements. Convened by the U.S. Department of State with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the International […]
After months of beating back Ebola from behind spacesuit-like protective gear, exhausted foreign aid workers in Liberia are beginning to pack up and go home. The final wave of Cuban workers in Liberia held its farewell ceremony last Monday. Only about 100 of the more than 1,500 U.S. military personnel deployed to help stem the […]
Supporting Africa is a “high priority” for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation’s director general, Yukiya Amano, said yesterday in his opening address at the Nuclear Africa 2015 conference held in Pelindaba, South Africa. Nuclear power is a unique technology with unique requirements. It involves a long-term commitment and requires significant financial […]
South Korea’s Satrec Initiative honours EIAST’s team with farewell ceremony March 22, 2015 Dubai, United Arab Emirates The team of engineers from the Emirates Institute of Advanced Science and Tehcnology (EIAST) who have been participating in the long knowledge transfer program in South Korea, have successfuly concluded their stay in the city of Daejeon and […]
Fact Sheet BUREAU OF ARMS CONTROL, VERIFICATION, AND COMPLIANCE March 20, 2015 “The United States proposes to work with both nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapons states to better understand the technical problems of verifying nuclear disarmament, and to develop solutions. This new initiative will…create a non-traditional partnership that draws on the expertise of talented […]
South Africa has enough nuclear fuel for about six bombs – each of them would wipe out Washington, DC, or large sections of New York City. After apartheid officially ended with the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as president, South Africa started extracting the uranium from the apartheid government’s cache of nuclear weapons. Some of […]
Remarks Rose Gottemoeller Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security University of Virginia, Jefferson Literary and Debating Society Charlottesville, VA February 13, 2015 As Delivered Good evening and thank you for the kind introduction. It is great to be down here in Charlottesville. It’s also great to see so many young people here at […]
Dubai, UAE, March 9, 2015 – The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has tasked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) for the launch of the landmark project KhalifaSat.,KhalifaSat is the most advanced satellite ever created for the UAE and the first to be conceptualized and built by a team of Emirati engineers. KhalifaSat […]
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 […]