FMWG Chair Miles Pomper, FMWG Steering Committee Member Kingston Rief, and FMWG Member Nick Roth provide insights on nuclear security spending in John Donnelly’s latest CQ article: “U.S. Spending Less to Secure World’s Nuclear Bomb Materials”. Nick Roth explains that despite a continued threat, “Political interest in preventing nuclear terrorism is waning,” as the Trump Administration […]
Event: Nuclear Security Summit Report Launch July 17, 2018 – 4:30pm
~Invitation~ The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) process significantly strengthened the global nuclear security architecture and brought high-level political attention to the risk posed by nuclear terrorism. The NSS pioneered the use of regular and voluntary nuclear security commitment-making by states and groups of states, leading to the creation of an effective new tool for […]
Differences Between House and Senate FY 2019 NDAA on Major Nuclear Provisions
View/download as PDF Topline President’s Request House Approved Senate Approved Department of Defense base budget $617.1 billion $616.7 billion $617.6 billion Atomic Energy Defense Programs $21.6 billion $22.1 billion $21.6 billion Overseas Contingency Operations $69 billion $69 billion $68.5 billion Other Spending $8.3 billion $9.2 billion $8.2 billion Total $716.0 billion $717.0 billion $715.9 […]
Blog: Scoville Fellow Luisa Kenausis covers the MOX Debacle and Uncertain Future
Luisa Kenausis, a Scoville Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation highlights the MOX debacle. Kenausis explains, “If and when MOX dies for good, the United States has two important challenges to address: Congress must approve and authorize funds to pursue the dilute-and-dispose method of plutonium disposition; and efforts must be made to amend […]
Analyst: U.S.-North Korea relations go beyond warhead count
Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with UPI about what North Korea’s promise to denuclearize means, realistically. Not only does North Korea’s authoritarian regime have time to spare, any approach to “complete denuclearization” would be protracted, which makes the process challenging, says James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in […]