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Dan Horner

Daniel Horner became editor of Arms Control Today in April 2009. Prior to joining ACA, Dan was senior editor with the Platts Nuclear Group, which publishes Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel, and Inside NRC. At Platts, Dan wrote and edited articles on national and international issues dealing with nuclear power and proliferation. While with Platts he received an award for Editorial Excellence in Newsletter Journalism from the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation. Before working with Platts, he was a managing editor with Exchange/Monitor Publications, and deputy director of the Nuclear Control Institute, where he helped develop domestic and international strategies for the institute's efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Dan holds a master's degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor's degree from Yale University.

  • Obama Budget Highlights Stockpile Work
    Arms Control Today
    March 4, 2010

    The Obama administration is requesting $7.0 billion for fiscal year 2011 to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, a rise of almost 10 percent from the $6.4 billion Congress appropriated for the effort for fiscal year 2010.

    Administration officials say the increase is necessary to make up for insufficient funding over the past decade. In a Feb. 18 speech at the National Defense University in Washington, Vice President Joe Biden said that, under the administration’s plan, funding would increase by $5 billion over the next five years.
  • Taking Stock of the NPT: An Interview With U.S. Special Representative Susan Burk
    Interviews
    March 4, 2010

    Interviewed by Peter Crail, Daniel Horner, and Daryl G. Kimball
  • News Briefs
    Arms Control Today
    March 3, 2010
  • IAEA Board Approves Russian Fuel Bank Plan
    Arms Control Today
    January 14, 2010

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has adopted a resolution authorizing Russia to establish a reserve of low-enriched uranium (LEU) as part of an international nonproliferation plan.

    In addition to approving the proposed text of an agreement with Russia, the Nov. 27 resolution authorizes the IAEA director-general “to conclude and subsequently implement” agreements with IAEA member states to receive the LEU from the Russian reserve if the countries meet certain basic requirements. According to the resolution, the board does not have to provide “case-by-case” authorization, but the director-general should “keep the Board informed of the progress of individual Agreements” with potential recipient countries. As part of the resolution, the board also approved a “model agreement” with potential recipients of the LEU.
  • U.S. Lays Out Plans to Address Biothreats
    Arms Control Today
    January 14, 2010

    The Obama administration unveiled a revised U.S. strategy for dealing with biological weapons proliferation and terrorism Dec. 9, altering the Bush administration’s approach in some ways but keeping the focus on the threat from bioterrorism and reaffirming the decision not to pursue a verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

    Some diplomats questioned the emphases of the U.S. approach and the casting of the decision on the verification protocol.