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  • Samore Suggests 2016 Security Summit
    Arms Control Today
    February 28, 2013

    President Barack Obama should consider holding a nuclear security summit in 2016 rather than ending the ongoing series of summits next year, Gary Samore, Obama’s former chief adviser on arms control, said Feb. 22.
  • Myanmar Vows to Upgrade IAEA Safeguards
    Arms Control Today
    December 4, 2012

    Myanmar will take steps to give the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) greater access to the country’s nuclear facilities, the office of Myanmar President Thein Sein said in a statement Nov. 19, the day of President Barack Obama’s arrival in the Southeast Asian country.
  • Post-2014 Nuclear Security Mulled
    Arms Control Today
    December 4, 2012

    Nuclear security summits held in 2010 and this year have achieved a great deal by focusing world leaders’ attention on the issue of securing nuclear materials, but there are ways to preserve much of that focus once the series of summits ends, a senior U.S. nuclear policy official said last month.
  • Time Is Now to Act on Treaties to Guard Against Nuclear Terrorism
    Issue Briefs
    December 3, 2012

    As the 112th Congress enters its final days, one of its critical priorities should be approving implementing legislation for two treaties that help raise the barriers against nuclear terrorism.
  • Strains Seen in Japan’s Plutonium Policy
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2012

    Japan’s recently proposed energy strategy is seen by some as unclear on how to address fundamental policy questions on the country’s approach to spent nuclear fuel, reprocessing, and plutonium use.
  • Pakistani Security Called Adequate
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    Pakistan’s security is adequate to deal with the recent attacks on its military installations, including a Sept. 5 threat to the Dera Ghazi Khan nuclear complex, according to former Pakistani and U.S. officials.
  • Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 30, 2012

    August 2012
  • Op-Ed: U.S. should cut nuclear stockpile
    Press Room
    March 29, 2012

    This week at an international nuclear security summit in South Korea, President Barack Obama's private request to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for "space" on his proposal for cooperation on missile defense was overheard from a live microphone and grabbed the headlines.
  • Letter to the Editor: Pakistan’s Conditions for an FMCT
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    Zamir Akram’s comments in his interview with Arms Control Today (“The South Asian Nuclear Balance: An Interview With Pakistani Ambassador to the CD Zamir Akram,” December 2011) signal a potentially important shift in Pakistan’s position on allowing negotiations leading to a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT).
  • P5 Struggles to Unblock FMCT Talks
    Arms Control Today
    September 30, 2011

    Fulfilling a commitment made at the United Nations in July, the world’s five recognized nuclear-weapon states met in Geneva on Aug. 30 to discuss ways to break the logjam at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on a proposed treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for weapons. However, the states, known as the P5 because they also are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, did not agree to pursue negotiations outside the CD, where Pakistan remains opposed to treaty talks.