Nuclear

OP #44: Eyes on U: Opportunities, Challenges, and Limits of Remote Sensing for Monitoring Uranium Mining and Milling

Geospatial tech sheds light on secretive first step of nuclear fuel cycle.

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Jeffrey Lewis: My Thoughts on Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s Speech

Will Pyongyang succeed in widening the divide between Seoul and Washington?

Anne Pellegrino

Welcome to Novaya Zemlya! Surveying Russia’s Underground Nuclear Test Site

VIDEO: Seminar with CNS experts, Anne Pellegrino and Jeffrey Lewis

Nikita Perfilyev

Will Russia and China Jointly Deter the United States?

VIDEO: Seminar with Nikita Perfilyev, doctoral student at the University of Vienna focusing on the evolution of Russian-Chinese nuclear deterrence relations.

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Who’s Deceiving Whom? Open Source North Korea Under the Microscope

NYT coverage of think-tank report risks credibility of open-source research on North Korea.

Le Hague nuclear reprocessing plant. (Credit: United States Department of Energy.)

OP #42: The Other Fissile Material: Strengthening National and International Plutonium Management Approaches

Recommendations to avoid risks posed by existing and potential reprocessing programs.

Martin Pfeiffer

Atomic Advertising as History and Imaginary

VIDEO: Martin Pfeiffer discusses nuclear semiotics: how we create meaning about, around, and through nuclear weapons

OP#41: Monitoring Uranium Mining and Milling in India and Pakistan through Remote Sensing Imagery

Open-source technologies allow analysts to monitor increased uranium production in South Asia.

Congressional Considerations for a US–Saudi Nuclear Agreement

The next round of US–KSA negotiations is expected to start in early 2019. Here’s what Congress should know.

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An Intensive Short Course on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament for South African Diplomats and Practitioners

In November 2018, CNS co-partnered a one-week intensive course to 30 participants from South Africa.