Attention young professionals and students: you can submit innovative and original essays on the topic “Future of Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts” for upcoming International Atomic Energy Agency International Conference on Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts ICONS conference by Friday, 6 September 2019. The conference will take place February 10-14, 2020 in Vienna, […]
Fact Sheet: Low-Yield Trident D5 Warhead: Dangerous, Unnecessary, and Destabilizing
Congress should deny authorization and appropriations for production and deployment for the Trump Administration’s request for a new, modified “low-yield” warhead for the Trident D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile. Specifically, Congress should prohibit fielding and zero the NNSA budget request of $10 million and the DoD budget request of $25.7 million ($19.6M for W76-2 and $6.1M […]
In the News: UK HEU Stored at Y-12 in Tennessee
The 700kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) that was removed from the United Kingdom has been placed at the Y-12 complex, near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The NNSA explained the material will be down-blended to low-enriched uranium (LEU) to be used in research and energy nuclear reactors. Highly enriched uranium from UK brought […]
Inside the Secret Dinners Where Congress Figures Out How to Stop a Nuclear Apocalypse
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in an article in the Daily Beast about the dinners the Center hosts for Members of Congress. They take place once every couple of months at a restaurant or townhome on Capitol Hill and are organized by former Democratic congressman John Tierney, who heads a group that advocates nuclear […]
Front and Center: May 18, 2019
Escalating tensions with Iran As we predicted, relations between the United States and Iran have gotten worse since President Trump decided to abandon the Iran nuclear deal last year. Iran has now said that it will no longer comply with parts of the agreement and tensions between the U.S. and […]
