The President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We strongly urge you to make every effort to ensure that threat reduction and nonproliferation programs are funded at the Senate Appropriations Committee-approved level in the Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill. Based on […]
Adding Money to Weapons from Nonproliferation is a Bad Trade
by Kingston Reif On October 6 House Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH) sent a letter signed by the Republican members of the Subcommittee to Senate appropriators asking that they fully fund the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 request for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) weapons activities account. Turner also sent a […]
[Paper] 2012 Nuclear Security Summit: The Korean Twist
KEI Academic Paper Series Presents: 2012 Nuclear Security Summit – The Korean Twist Luncheon Presentation By: Duyeon Kim Deputy Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:00PM – 1:30PM KEI Conference Facility Click here to see Kim’s paper and lecture. (Kim’s paper will be updated prior to the […]
Factsheet: 2011 IAEA General Conference
by Duyeon Kim and Andrew Carpenter BACKGROUND The 55th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference (GC), comprised of representatives from the Agency’s 151 Member States, will be held on September 19-23, 2011 in Vienna. The General Conference, coupled with the Board of Governors meeting prior to the Conference, shape the direction of the Agency. Many […]
Fact Sheet: 66th UN General Assembly | Nuclear Safety-Security & Treaties
by Duyeon Kim and Andrew Carpenter BACKGROUND A High-level Meeting on Nuclear Safety and Security will be held at the 66th UN General Assembly on September 22nd, 2011 in New York. The conference was called for by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who announced his plans to host the meeting at the 25th anniversary of the 1986 […]
