Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, December 2021
…opened submissions for the Nuclear Security Policy Menu project. The Policy Menu aims to anticipate the needs of future nuclear security actors by building a menu of nuclear security initiatives…
Assessing Pakistan’s Nuclear Security Upgrades after ratification of the 2005 CPPNM Amendment
…used in IAEA Nuclear Security Guidance,” August 2020, accessed October 6, 2021, https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/21/06/nuclear_security_glossary_august_2020.pdf. On the advice of the Government of Pakistan, the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) initiated the Nuclear Security Action…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, October 2022
…Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, and the IAEA’s Third Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power. This convening of these nuclear minds could not have come at a timelier moment. As tensions…
South Korea as a Nuclear State
…However, in January 2023, President Yoon Suk-yeol voiced the possibility of either building nuclear weapons indigenously or redeploying US tactical nuclear weapons in the face of an ever-growing nuclear threat from the…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, November 2020
…years and, as the Nuclear Threat Initiative identified in its 2020 Nuclear Security Index, momentum behind strengthening nuclear security has declined. The incoming Biden administration presents a new opportunity for U.S. nuclear security…
Nuclear Security Year in Review, 2021
…Nuclear Weapons, “Addressing ‘Vienna issues’: the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty; compliance and verification; export controls; cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy; nuclear safety; nuclear security; and discouraging withdrawal from…
Four Days in May: The India-Pakistan Crisis of 2025
…Hills:’ Air Force Dismisses Speculation Around Striking Pakistan’s Nuclear Site,” The Wire, May 12, 2025, https://thewire.in/security/air-marshal-ak-bharti-kirana-hills-nuclear-site-pakistan-india-sindoor 77 “Defusing the Nuclear Crisis Between India and Pakistan,” Thinking the Unthinkable with Ankit…
Stale Thinking on Tac Nukes Reheated
Quote of the week: “Neither a viable posture nor a viable doctrine exist … for the employment of tactical nuclear weapons.” —William R. Van Cleave and S.T. Cohen, Tactical Nuclear Weapons (1978)…