Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2024
…Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant (November 15): “Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Nov. 14 warned that it can expel [IAEA] inspectors from the occupied [ZNPP] if it finds their work ‘inappropriate.’ The statement…
CTR for Pakistan: Opportunity Knocks
…its nuclear weapons, materials, and secrets. For Pakistan, that means, at a minimum, promoting physical protection in and around sensitive weapons or weapons-component storage sites, protecting spent fuel at the…
Testimony of Michael Krepon on The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
…inspections. Transparency measures at test sites can also help, as might joint verification experiments at or near test sites. There is precedent for this step. The George H.W. Bush administrations…
CORVI Risk Assessment: Southern and Western Urban Corridor, Barbados
…Common and Intense. What Can We Do to Minimize Harm?,” PreventionWeb, August 11, 2020, accessed June 2, 2022, https://www.preventionweb.net/news/marine-heat-waves-are-becoming-more-common-and-intense-what-can-we-do-minimize-harm. Gaps and Limitations Two key areas of climate risk require further…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2020
…Nightmare by Frank von Hippel, Masafumi Takubo, and Jungmin Kang. The review describes how, “[t]his “industry” has seen massive investment by private and mostly governmental funds in pursuit of creating…
Two Malarias
…inherently fragile. Malarial parasites – all types of them – are wholly dependent on mosquitoes biting not once, but twice. The first bite drinks in a small handful of microbes…
Four Reasons Why Proposals to Source Rare Earth Minerals from Myanmar Will Not Succeed
…proposals reflect a fundamental misreading of on-the-ground conditions. Even recent growth in rare earth mining in Wa-controlled areas of Shan State does not alter this reality, as these sites remain…
Between “Cyber Insecurity” and Modern Warfare: The Precarious Tightrope of Deterrence Stability in South Asia
…Control in South Asia,” Strategic Studies, vol. 41, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 49-63, https://issi.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/4_SS_Aamna_Rafiq_No-3_2021.pdf.pdf. as seen after the Balakot-Pulwama crisis in 2019. The crisis itself was a series of escalatory…