Nuclear Security News & Member Updates Roundup, March 2023
…with Nuclear Subs Deal: “The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are traveling ‘further down the wrong and dangerous path for their own geopolitical self-interest,’ China’s Foreign Ministry said……
Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
…which are supported by various committees. These organizations usually fall under the supervision of one ministry or several ministries. In the case of France, the Ministries for Energy, Research, and…
Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy for Surviving COVID-19
…to undergo a medical evaluation. Currently, the country has over 21,000 individuals in “concentrated quarantine sites,” while some 30,000 others remain under self-isolation orders. Conditions inside the quarantine sites are…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, January 2024
…standards.” Mines ‘Back in Place’ at Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant: IAEA: “Land mines once again surround the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is in Russian hands, the UN…
Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Tourism as an Industry
…North Korea Under Kim Jong Un: An Analysis of North Korean Discourse,” North Korean Review 16, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 55-81, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26912705. That’s a topic for another day. Rather, this is a study of…
Protecting Those Who Protect
…of diesel fuel and other rations for UN sites, and protecting those convoys can require peacekeepers to act as armed escorts and security. This is not a small issue. From…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, April 2021
…discrimination claim. Engineer Mo Master was quizzed by officers at his home after colleagues began to suspect him of holding ‘extremist Islamic views’. Read the Employment Tribunal case details. Minimization…
The Limits of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan under Taliban Rule
…restrictive decrees1Note: United Nations, UNAMA Human Rights Service, Human Rights in Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 to 15 June 2022, (July 2022), available from https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unama_human_rights_in_afghanistan_report_-_june_2022_english.pdf, pages 22-23, 31. Those violating the…