Event Reports

CNS Building

When Nuclear Umbrellas Work: Assurance and Deterrence through Costly Signaling

APRIL 23, 2014: Seminar with Neil Narang, Junior Faculty Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.

CNS Building

Evolution of US Nuclear Fuel Policy Concepts

APRIL 11, 2014: Seminar with Amy Seward, Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Thomas Wood, program manager for PNNL programs.

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Negotiating Nuclear Consensus – Lessons from the 2010 NPT-Review Conference

APRIL 15, 2014: Seminar with Ambassador Alexander Marschik, the Austrian permanent representative to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union.

Siegfried Hecker

A 10-Year Retrospective of North Korea’s Nuclear Program

APRIL 16, 2014: Seminar with Dr. Siegfried Hecker, research professor & senior fellow at Stanford University.

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The 1993 US-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium HEU Purchase Agreement

APRIL 18, 2014: Seminar with Greg Dwyer of the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA).

Nuclear Norms Workshop

Scholars’ Workshop on Nuclear Norms

MARCH 20-22, 2014: CNS Workshop – Part of the project, “Nuclear Norms and Global Governance.”

Barack Obama speaking at the Nuclear Security Summit, Wikimedia Commons

The 2014 Nuclear Security Summit: Are We Safe Yet?

53 national leaders met in The Hague for the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit. Are we safer?

CNS Convenes NPT Delegations at Annecy Workshop in Advance of Prepcom

Annual Annecy Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Meeting Convenes, Major Nuclear Challenges Ahead

MARCH 14-15, 2014: CNS hosted a 2-day diplomatic workshop in Annecy, France.

The Pentagon, source: Wikipedia.org

The Myth of American Nuclear Obsolescence

Conventional wisdom in Washington DC suggests the US is the only nuclear weapon state not modernizing its nuclear forces, but it is dead wrong.

iran nuclear agreement

The Iran Nuclear Agreement

Seminar on the Iran Nuclear Joint Plan of Action featuring CNS experts.