Eric Hundman surveys the history of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and finds that while progress has been slower than expected, the program has "has focused attention worldwide on nuclear security and conversion programs."
An overview of the successful cooperative threat reduction programs to reduce the threat of Russian 'loose nukes', including the successful Megatons-to-Megawatts program.
The United States should use programs it has used to contain the former Soviet Union’s WMD arsenal in efforts to end the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program, according to a group of experts.
Russia faces grave environmental and terrorist threats unless donors accelerate a slow trickle of international aid for dismantling its rusting nuclear submarines, a senior official said.
The author calls for greater care and more intensive international cooperation to safeguard strategic nuclear command and control systems against incursions by terrorists bent on causing unauthorized and by definition catastrophic attacks.
An international partnership of the U.S. and other leading industrial nations to help Russia safeguard their chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is at risk due to legal disputes, bureaucratic hang-ups, Russia's reluctance to allow access to sensitive sites, and public resistance in Russia to cooperation with the United States and the West.
A new report from the National Resources Defense Council criticizes the Bush administration for "spending 12 times more on nuclear weapons research and production than on nonproliferation efforts to retrieve, secure and dispose of nuclear weapons materials worldwide."
The U.S. Energy Department announced an overhaul of its program to retrieve weapons-grade uranium from foreign research reactors after an internal audit warned that much of the material was "out of U.S. control" and could be stolen by terrorists.
The successful "Megatons to Megawatts" program buys weapons-grade uranium extracted from Russian nuclear warheads and sells it to commercial nuclear power plant providers. Some officials have argued that the future success of the program will depend on the future of nuclear power.
US Senator Richard Lugar discusses the Nunn-Lugar expansion act which will expand the successful cooperative threat reduction program, enabling it to assist in the dismantling of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs anywhere in the world.