FMS 2023 – Questions on The Administration’s Plans for Retooling Foreign Military Sales
…Biden administration’s commitments to ensuring a more responsible arms trade, the U.S. government should clarify how it plans to implement and operationalize its proposed reforms and how those reforms are…
Courtney Weatherby and Brian Eyler cited in Voice of America Khmer on Laos plans for dams
WASHINGTON — Laos, the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, plans to build more than a hundred hydropower dams on major tributaries and the mainstream of the Mekong River, aiming to…
Reconsider Nuclear Modernization Plans
…nine nuclear nations have embarked upon significant nuclear weapons modification and expansion programs; resulting in what many experts have described as a new nuclear arms race. Unfortunately, as has been…
Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on Water and Security in Southeast Asia
…and for yet unrevealed plans for irrigation and possibly other water diversion schemes. These plans to regulate the river to support navigation and changing power demands are extremely destructive environmentally…
Disruption and the Nuclear Industry
…Stephen Roman, 17 June 2024, https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/junior-miner-news/press-releases/1459-tsx/glo/162599-global-atomic-continues-to-advance-the-dasa-project-including-progressing-financing-options-and-positive-engagement-with-niger-s-mines-minister.html. Another project, the Chinese-owned Somina mine at Azelik, in northern Niger has indicated it plans to resume uranium mining, although exactly when has yet…
The Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540
…a survey found that many had difficulty in reporting and were not clear on their roles. Forty-seven states have submitted such plans.17United Nations, 1540 Committee, “National Implementation Plans,” available at…
Sharing Nuclear Information
…participation, each INFCIRC/549 state submitted a multipage statement broadly outlining the status, development plans, and national strategy for nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle within its borders.[10] Third, mechanisms…
Shifting Power: Transitioning to Renewable Energy in United Nations Peace Operations
…strategic directions set out in the Environment Strategy and the UNSCAP. Continue integration of site energy plans in the energy infrastructure management plans developed by the missions’ engineering and environment…