Radiological

Getting Bomb-Grade Uranium Out of Civilian Hands

CNS and the Royal Embassy of Norway hosted a panel discussion on nuclear security at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

CNS Conducts Seminar on Radiological Source Security in Georgia

Government representatives address problems of securing radiological sources and radioactive waste management in Georgia.

Federal Funding to Combat Terrorism, Including Defense against Weapons of Mass Destruction

August 17, 2008 FY 1998-2001 Jump to chart: Govt-wide | USDA | DOC | DOE | EPA | FEMA | GSA | HHS | Interior | DOJ | FBI | Nat’l Security Community | NRC | DOS | Transportation | Treasury | USAID Items in italics represent total funding for combating terrorism. All other items […]

Nuclear Successor States of the Soviet Union

The status of nuclear weapons, weapons-usable nuclear material, export controls, and nonproliferation and disarmament assistance programs in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.

An Alleged “Nuclear Device” in Western Kazakhstan Is a Non-Nuclear Installation

A Kazakh parliamentarian announced Kazakhstan still possessed a nuclear explosive device. However, the device is actually a research installation for high-pressure physics experiments.

The Oslo Symposium: On the Road to HEU Minimization

In efforts to combat nuclear terrorism countries seek to limit the civilian use of HEU.

WMD Middle East Information of 2006

Information about nuclear, chemical, biological, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, other delivery systems and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

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2002 WMD Terrorism Chronology

Incidents Involving Sub-National Actors and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Materials

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.

2001 WMD Terrorism Chronology

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