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CNS article

OP#11: Commercial Radioactive Sources: Surveying the Security Risks

Occasional Paper #11: Focuses on the security of commercial radioactive sources, the sources that represent a significant category of radioactive materials that are widely used throughout the world for beneficial applications in medicine and industry, and—until recently—have not been considered high security risks.

The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis: Incapacitants and Chemical Warfare

Russian special police use incapacitating gas to stop Chechen terrorists.

“Suitcase Nukes:” A Reassessment

Russian official admits government is missing an unknown number of portable nuclear devices, suitcase nukes.

2001 WMD Terrorism Chronology

From the perspective of CBRN terrorism, 2001 was certainly an unprecedented year.

“Dirty Bomb” Threat Awakens Dormant Disarmament Conference

Materials for dirty bombs can be found throughout the world, with most countries lacking controls & programs to prevent theft.

CNS article

OP#10: Future Security in Space: Commercial, Military, and Arms Control Trade-Offs

Occasional Paper #10: Identifying areas of common ground in the field of future space activity. A collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton.

Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors, www.antiatom.ru with permission

Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors – Proliferation Risks

Construction of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plants is moving ahead.

CNS Releases Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

Report on growing concerns that terrorists could gain access to laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus and use them as a deadly weapon.

Release of a Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

Release of a Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

The first authoritative English translation of the report is now available.

Challenges in US-Russian Cooperation

The United States and Russia have to adjust old patterns of thinking to new political realities in order to further cooperation on nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation.