by Duyeon Kim Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on March 30, 2012 available here. 2012 NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT: WHAT IT WAS AND WASN’T BY DUYEON KIM | 30 MARCH 2012 Article Highlights The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul could have been a watershed moment for nuclear security, but it was largely […]
Senate and House Appropriators Increase Funding for Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Programs
During the week of April 23 the Senate and House Appropriations Committees approved their respective versions of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. The bill funds the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) core nuclear material security and nonproliferation activities, which are housed in the Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account. The bill also […]
Good News for Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Programs?
Regular readers know that we weren’t big fans of the Obama administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 budget request for core nuclear material security programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration. And given that Republicans on the House Energy…
[Op-Ed] 2012 Seoul Summit: Pivot to Global Nuclear Security
by Duyeon Kim Published in the Korea Economic Institute’s “The Peninsula” on April 4, 2012. The 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, Korea could have been a watershed moment for nuclear security. The 58 heads of state and world leaders were expected to implement nuclear security measures conceptualized by the Obama administration’s first Summit in […]
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Hails National Academy of Sciences Report on Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Washington D.C.- The Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation today called the National Academy of Sciences report on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) “another important piece of evidence confirming that the case for Senate approval of the treaty is stronger than ever.”
