“It took a decade, but Congress has finally passed legislation vital to global efforts to prevent and punish nuclear terrorism,” said Executive Director Angela Canterbury.
Real Clear Defense Publishes Article on Nuclear Weapons Policy and Spending by Kingston Reif
Why America Doesn’t Need All Its Nukes…And It Can’t Afford Them Either by Kingston Reif Earlier this week in RealClearDefense, the Foreign Policy Initiative’s Evan Moore made his case for “why America still needs nukes.” Moore points to the conclusions of the recently released National Defense Panel (NDP) report on defense policy as evidence of […]
National Interest Op-Ed on U.S.-Russian Cooperation by General Gard and Nickolas Roth
Don’t Let Nuclear-Security Cooperation with Russia Lapse July 3, 2014 by Nickolas Roth and Robert Gard Republicans and Democrats alike have traditionally understood that investing in nuclear security is a small price to pay compared with the devastating economic, political and social costs of nuclear terrorism. That’s why U.S. cooperation with Russia and other countries […]
Fact Sheet: The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
by Justin Bresolin Updated by Brenna Gautam, June 2014 Origin and Purpose The Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, also known as the Nunn-Lugar Program, was created for the purpose of securing and dismantling weapons of mass destruction and their associated infrastructure in the former states of the Soviet Union. Founded by Senators Sam […]
White House Earns “D”/HASC Earns “C-” on Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Funding
“President Obama has often stated that a mushroom cloud over Manhattan is what keeps him up at night but his budget request slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from critical programs that keep dangerous nuclear and radiological materials out of the hands of terrorists,” said Kingston Reif, the Center’s Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Programs. “Millions in cuts and poor planning will mean that key target goals to secure materials and protect facilities will slip.”
