The third report of the Deep Cuts Commission contains fifteen key recommendations and a number of additional measures to help to address the most acute security concerns in Europe and increase U.S.-Russian nuclear transparency and predictability.
After years of talks, South Korea and the United States signed an agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.
The report assesses progress made on more than a dozen joint statements issued at the 2014 NSS in The Hague and the value of continuing voluntary nuclear security commitment making at the 2016 summit and beyond.
India will be able to purchase uranium from Australia under a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement that the two countries signed last month.
South Korea and the United States have brought into force a two-year interim extension of the their agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation, the State Department said in a March 18 press release.
Talks between South Korea and the United States on renewing their 1974 nuclear cooperation agreement appear stalled, with the main sticking point the countries’ differences over Seoul’s pursuit of the nuclear fuel cycle.
U.S. agencies are not able to verify the location and physical security of U.S.-obligated nuclear materials overseas, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released last month. The document, a summary of the classified report issued to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in June, recommended that Congress consider requiring the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to “complete a full accounting of U.S. weapons-usable nuclear materials [in other countries].”