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Belarus Agrees to Remove All HEU

Belarus plans to rid its highly enriched uranium (HEU) stocks prior to the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, Korea.

NATO Summits Fail to Resolve Key Disarmament Issues, but Create New Opportunities

NATO and NATO-Russia Summits bring modest opportunities for progress in the coming years.

Missiles, Maneuvers and Mysteries

North Korea’s leadership succession and nuclear activities have garnered attention, including the parading of new missiles systems.

MIIS-NPT Review 2000 Simulation

Students participated in a semester-long simulation of the NPT Review Conference

Reducing & Regulating Nonstrategic (Tactical) Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Moving Forward?

MAY 10, 2010: A panel discussion held between sessions of the RevCon.

US and Russian High School Students Tackle Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenges

Masako Toki May 7, 2010 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) Program: 2009-2010 Students and teachers from 12 US high schools and 10 schools in Russia’s “closed nuclear cities” met together at the 2010 conference of the Critical Issues Forum (CIF) held April 22-23 in Monterey. This year’s conference, the largest since the program began at CNS in […]

NFWZ Clearinghouse

William Potter, Leonard Spector, Lawrence Scheinman, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Nikolai Sokov April 28, 2010 Introduction Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zones (NWFZs) are recognized as important tools of international nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. In 2009, both the Central Asian NWFZ Treaty and the African NWFZ Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) entered into force. NWFZs now cover 116 countries including the entire territory of the southern hemisphere. […]

The Nuclear Security Summit: Forging Consensus and Building Momentum

The Summit was the latest step that Obama has taken to advance his administration’s nonproliferation agenda.

START Follow-On Talks Successfully Concluded: What’s Next?

The conclusion of the Treaty of Prague is a success. Now Obama and Medvedev need to outline the next treaty.

7th US-China Conference on Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation

DECEMBER 16-17, 2009: CNS co-hosts US-China meeting: Enhancing Strategic Stability and Cooperation between Beijing and Washington.