Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2024
…impacts on the energy grid and supply of energy to the nuclear power plants of both countries. Meanwhile, in the United States, a thwarted “accelerationist” attack on a Tennessee electrical…
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
…Bill,” Forbes, March 25, 2019, accessed March 31, 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2019/03/25/agriculture-project-promises-to-slash-barbados-hefty-food-import-bill/. In 2020, there was above 10 percent increase in food prices in several months.6 Note: “Barbados Food Inflation,” Trading Economics,…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2020
…of Science and Security Studies held a webinar titled “Sustaining Nuclear Security at Decommissioning Sites,” where the discussion centered on the specific challenges associated with maintaining security and security culture…
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
…Stability in South Asia, ” Journal of Asian and African Studies 57, no. 7 (2022). Finding space for limited war or nonconventional means of targeting critical infrastructure are sensitive matters…