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Nuclear Nonproliferation

  • Nuclear Powers Urge Progress on FMCT
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    The five countries that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) recognizes as nuclear-weapon states last month “expressed their shared disappointment” that the Conference on Disarmament (CD) has not agreed to negotiate an international ban on the production of fissile material for use in nuclear weapons and “reiterated their support for the immediate start of negotiations” in the CD.
  • NNSA Nonproliferation Budget Is Cut
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2013

    The Energy Department’s nuclear nonproliferation efforts would receive $2.1 billion under the Obama administration’s fiscal year 2014 budget request, a drop of $161 million from fiscal year 2012.
  • Brazil Moves Toward Nuclear Submarine
    Arms Control Today
    April 2, 2013

    Brazil is planning to develop a nuclear-powered submarine by 2023, the country’s Ministry of Defense said Feb. 28. The statement came a day before a ceremony in the state of Rio de Janeiro marking the inauguration of a key facility for building submarines.
  • Amano Endorsed for Second IAEA Term
    Arms Control Today
    April 2, 2013

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on March 6 endorsed Yukiya Amano to serve a second four-year term as the agency’s director-general.
  • Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 1, 2013

    April 2013
  • UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    March 14, 2013

    March 2013
  • The U.S. Atomic Energy Act Section 123 At a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    March 14, 2013

    March 2013
  • 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.
  • Meeting on Middle East WMD Postponed
    Arms Control Today
    December 4, 2012

    A conference scheduled for December on creating a zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Middle East is being postponed, the conveners said late last month in separate statements that suggested disagreement among them on when the conference could take place and why it was postponed.
  • 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.