What Nuclear Experts and Policy Pundits Think of NPEC
To see what policy makers from Jon Kyl, Dick Lugar, Ilena Ros-Lehtinen to Ed Markey, Brad Sherman, Daniel Akaka and Howard Berman have to say regarding NPEC's work, as well as outside experts and opinion leaders from Bill Kristol and John Bolton to Amory Lovins and George Perkovich click here.
USA Today cited a letter NPEC signed opposing the creation of additional federal loan guarantees for nuclear power. The letter, also signed by the National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Marshall Institute, urges President Obama not to provide any further loan guarantee authority to the Department of Energy after his State of the Union speech endorsing subsidies for nuclear power plant construction.
In a new blog posting at the National Review Online NPEC's executive director writes that President Obama's proposal to include nuclear in a list of energy types that should receive federal loans for new plants and projects is a risky investment that will be made at the taxpayer's expense.
In comments to the Global Security Newswire, NPEC's executive director said that the U.S. should be prepared to walk away from a deal on strategic arms reducations if negotiations with the Russians fall short of expectations.
NPEC reassesses the latest reports on the threat of Pakistani nuclear terrorism in a new book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk. For this analysis and to download the complete volume, click here.
Retired General Feroz Khan, who ran the Pakistani army's arms control and disarmament office, gave this presentation with U.S. government officials present at a private NPEC gathering organized with the U.S. Naval War College.
Pakistan's National Command Authority, which is responsible for establishing Pakistani Strategic Nuclear Policies released a statement following their 16th meeting which detailed growing Pakistani apprehensions about India's continued strategic nuclear buildup.
Newswire/Blog
New QDR Highlights Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Technology
Is There a Plan B if START Negotiations Break Down?
News
In comments to the Global Security Newswire, NPEC's executive director said that the U.S. should be prepared to walk away from a deal on strategic arms reducations if negotiations with the Russians fall short of expectations.
December 22, 2009
NPEC Assesses the Impact of Obama's Missed Deadlines on START Renewal
News
Speaking to the Christian Science Monitor, NPEC's executive director noted that missed deadlines set by Obama for an agreement on START have lost him leverage in negotiations with the Russians and point to a rocky road ahead for his ambitious arms control agenda in "US and Russia to Miss Deadline, Again, on Renewed START Treaty".
September 25, 2009
Washington Journal Interviews NPEC Executive Director
Interview
NPEC's executive director was interviewed for by CSPAN's Washington Journal and discussed President Obama's speech on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons at the United Nations and Iran as well as other topics related to the next arms race.
September 25, 2009
Obama's New Missile Defense Plan: Smart or Hollow?
Expert Blog
In the aftermath of Mr. Obama's decision to terminate the radar and 10 interceptor deployements in Poland NPEC's executive director tackles the question of whether he has caved to Russia for a less than optimal system in an expert blog entry written for the National Journal's national security blog.
September 11, 2009
NPEC Rates Risks of Pushing Nuclear Power and Disarmament at Greens Conference
Interview/Video Presentations
NPEC's executive director answered questions on the relationship between the potential for nuclear weapons proliferation that comes with the spread of nuclear energy and the inherent risks of going to zero as part of a panel at a conference put on by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. See the Q&A here.
September 8, 2009
House Republican National Security Leadership Outline START Concerns
Letter
A letter from the ranking Republican members of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees to President Obama highlights some of the dangers of deeper nuclear weapons reductions in the START follow on, including NPEC's observation that truly deep cuts might prompt China and others to increase their nuclear deployments to reach parity with the U.S. Click here for the letter.
August 24, 2009
New NPEC Piece for The Atlantic Community: The Wrong Way to Zero
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents "Nuclear Abolition and the Next Arms Race". Mr. Sokolski presented this at a DTRA-ASCO event at Fort Belvoir, VA.
Russia
November 24, 2009
Russian Foreign Ministry Disputes NPEC Claims
News
The Russian Foreign Ministry has responded to dispute NPEC's findings about Moscow's involvement in Iran's nuclear program in a Washington Times Op-Ed.
November 18, 2009
Iranian Nuclear Weapons: From Russia with Disdain
Op-Ed
In a new op-ed in The Washington Times, NPEC's executive director posits that Russia is helping Iran in its work on a nuclear weapon in ways that extend beyond building a nuclear plant at Bushehr and considers why the Obama administration won't press Moscow on the subject.
July 29, 2009
GAO says State Dept. report on Russian Proliferation Was Rushed, Incomplete
GAO Report
The GAO determines that State Department's latest assessment of Russian nuclear proliferation activities was "rushed" and improperly vetted with the intelligence community. See the report here.
June 15, 2009
Zarate on U.S. and Russian Plutonium Management
Essay
"How Should the U.S. and Russia Manage Excess Weapons Plutonium?" by Robert Zarate. Mr. Zarate is a research fellow at NPEC, and a concurrent legislative fellow at the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade. The views expressed in Mr. Zarate´s essay are his own.
April 19, 2009
Presentation on the Future of U.S.-Russian Cooperative Nonproliferation
CitiGroup Says Economics Say No to New Nuclear Plants in the UK
News
CITIGroup’s latest financial analysis of building more nuclear power plants in the UK concludes that without massive, new government financial incentives and guarantees, the economics say no.
October 30, 2009
Congress Promotes WMD Commission Recommendation for Alternative Energy Peace Corps
Washington Post Follows Up on Nuke Deal for Cap and Trade
News
A new story in The Washington Post: "A Nuclear Power Boost for Bill" examines the deal previously highlighted by NPEC for Senate Republicans to support the President's preferred climate change bill in exchange for his support on subsidies for nuclear power and quotes its executive director on the subject.
October 21, 2009
NPEC Spotlights Obama's Nuclear Bribes for Senate Cap and Trade Votes
Op-Ed
In a new piece for the National Review Online, NPEC's executive director details White House efforts to buy Senate Republican votes for proposed cap and trade legislation with nuclear subsidies. Click here for "Cap and Bribe".
September 22, 2009
MIT Paper on Better Regulations for Improving U.S. Electrical Grid Efficiency
New German Ministry Report Predicts Global Decline in Nuclear Plant Numbers
Report
The German Federal Environmental Ministry on 27 August released a major study that projects the steady decline of nuclear capacity world-wide. In 2007 global nuclear power generation declined 2% from the previous year due to decommissionings. Just to maintain the number of plants that currently exist, the report projects an improbable 42 new reactors would have to be brought online by 2015, i.e., one every six weeks, and& that another 192 -- one every 19 days -- would have to built by 2025. Click here for the full report or here for the press release.
August 25, 2009
Moody's Assesses New Nuclear Power Risks
Report
Moody's Investor's Service warns utilities of "bet the farm" risks of investing in the construction of new nuclear power plants in a report released this summer. Click here for the the full report.
August 5, 2009
Debate on France's Nuclear Power Program
Essay
Mycle Schneider and Steve Kidd debate the merits of French nuclear nuclear power in the pages of Nuclear Engineering International.
July 14, 2009
Why Canada Decided to End Its Plan for Nukes
News
An article in The Toronto Star explains the reasons behind the Government of Ontario's decision to cancel a plan to finance two new 1200 megawatt reactors.
Lovins on Whether Nuclear Power Is a Climate Fix or Folly
DRAFT Article
NPEC releases "Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?". Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, summarizes why nuclear power cannot, in principle, deliver the climate-protection or energy-security and reliability benefits claimed for it.
April 9, 2009
Von Hippel on the Costs and Benefits of Reprocessing
Speakers included Peter Bradford, professor at Vermont Law School and Union of Concerned Scientists Board Member who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under President Carter; Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute; Doug Koplow, founder of Earth Track; Ben Lieberman, senior policy analyst on energy and environment at the Heritage Foundation. Panel was moderated by Jack Spencer, research fellow in nuclear energy policy at the Heritage Foundation, and Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center.
Analysis of Latest IAEA Iran Report: Tehran Poised to Breakout in 2010
UPDATED Analysis
Reuters reported on November 12th that Iran has 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) – enough to make one to two bombs, and the IAEA released a report on November 16th in the wake of its inspection of Iran's new enrichment facility. In fact, as Greg Jones, a nuclear analyst explains in a technical bulletin, Iran might not be able to make any bombs or could possibly make as many as two with this amount of material and could have the potential "breakout" capacity to build a weapon as early as 2010.
October 27, 2009
NPEC Calls For Iran Sanctions Now
Op-Ed
In an op-ed published in Forbes, "Sanction Iran Now", NPEC's executive director calls on the Obama administration to push for immediate sanctions on Iran until it suspends its fuelmaking activities and opens up to intrusive international inspections.
October 27, 2009
Wall Street Journal Editorial Cites NPEC Iranian Nuclear Analysis
Op-Ed
In an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal, "Dickering Over Uranium", NPEC's executive director describes how a possible deal to process Iranian fuel for a research reactor could shorten the amount of time it might take them to make a weapons worth of highly enriched uranium.
October 12, 2009
NPEC Releases Detailed Analysis on Fueling Tehran's Research Reactor
How Might Tehran Exploit the Latest Offer to Ship It Research Reactor Fuel?
UPDATED Analysis
On October 1, 2009, Iran was reported to have agreed to send a significant portion of its existing stock of 3.5 percent low enriched uranium
to Russia and France to be converted into 19.75 percent enriched reactor fuel. This fuel would power Iran's small 5 megawatt research reactor. NPEC executive director noted on National Review Online that Iran would have a far easier time making a bomb if it started with this fuel than if it started with the 3.5 percent enriched uranium it currently has on hand. Given that severalcommentators have misunderstood this technical point, NPEC published a fuller analysis at the National Review Online.
June 24, 2009
How Not to Restrain Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions
NPEC on Nuclear Power and Proliferation in the Middle East
Presentation
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski gives a presentation entitled "Whats to Keep Atoms for Peace in the Middle East?" at a panel sponsored by The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Georgetown Institute for International Law and Politics.
Questions about New Nuclear Power in the Middle East
Research Paper
NPEC releases "Nuclear Power in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey – how cost effective?," by John Stephenson and Peter Tynan. Mr. Stephenson and Mr Tynan both of Dalberg Global Development Advisors presented the findings at a day-long workshop hosted by the NPEC and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The Nonproliferation Treaty Regime
November 9, 2009
NATO Assembly Adopts NPEC's Recommendations on IAEA Safeguards
Report
A new report released at NATO's Parliamentary Assembly's 2009 Annual Meeting commends NPEC for its suggestions to improve the IAEA's inspections capacity. See section 101 of the committee report.
The Congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction in its first assessment of the Obama Administration urged the White House and Congress to act on four nuclear recommendations made by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC). Click here for the full press release.
Debate on Obama's Nuclear Policy Shift on NPR's "To The Point"
Radio Discussion
NPEC's executive director was on To the Point on National Public Radio in a discussion on "A New Thrust against Nuclear Weapons" with Colum Lynch of the Washington Post, Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association and James Kitfield of the National Journal.
September 23, 2009
Obama's Misguided Nuclear Triad
Op-Ed
The National Review Online publishes an op-ed by NPEC's executive director "Obama's Misguided Nuclear Triad" on the president's draft resolution that he will submit September 24th at the UNSC summit on nuclear nonprolifeation and disarmament.
September 21, 2009
U.S. Draft UN Security Council Resolution on Nonproliferation and Disarmament
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientsts publishes "Locking down the NPT" by NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski and former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Victor Gilinsky.
June 11, 2009
Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control - Working Well Together?
CFR Events on Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime
Panel Transcript
Now available:Transcript of What Should Be Done in the Near Term to Strengthen the Nonproliferation Regime?, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) panel with Dennis Gormley, senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies/Monterey Institute of International Studies; Paul Lettow, adjunct senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations; Lawrence Scheinman, distinguished professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies/Monterey Institute of International Studies; and Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. The panel was moderated by Charles D. Ferguson, the Philip D. Reed senior fellow for science and technology at Council on Foreign Relations.
Missiles and Missile Defense
December 9, 2009
NPEC's Director Testifies against Decontrolling US Aerospace Exports
Obama's New Missile Defense Plan: Smart or Hollow?
Expert Blog
In the aftermath of Mr. Obama's decision to terminate the radar and 10 interceptor deployements in Poland NPEC's executive director tackles the question of whether he has caved to Russia for a less than optimal system in an expert blog entry written for the National Journal's national security blog.
September 21, 2009
NPEC in Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal on US Missile Defense Shift
News
Articles in the Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Signals Shift Towards Disarmament" and in Newsweek, "The Real Missile Defense System that Will Protect Europe" quote NPEC's executive director on the subject of the Obama Administration's new plan to shift U.S. missile defense from a system to intercept long range missiles based in Eastern Europe to a ship based system with short and medium range interceptors.
August 18, 2009
NPEC on Upcoming South Korean Rocket Launch
News
The Washington Post quotes NPEC's executive director Henry Sokolski in "S. Korean Launch Raises Questions" by R. Jeffrey Smith and Stella Kim.
May 26, 2009
NPEC on North Korea's Missile Test and Second Nuclear Bomb Test
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents "Nuclear Abolition and the Next Arms Race". Mr. Sokolski presented this at a DTRA-ASCO event at Fort Belvoir, VA.
South Asia
January 20, 2010
New NPEC Book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk
Book
NPEC reassesses the latest reports on the threat of Pakistani nuclear terrorism in a new book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk. For this analysis and to download the full volume, click here.
January 13, 2009
Pakistan Details Concerns about Indian Nuclear Buildup
Press Release
Pakistan's National Command Authority, which is responsible for establishing Pakistani Strategic Nuclear Policies released a statement following their 16th meeting which detailed growing Pakistani apprehensions about India's continued strategic nuclear buildup.
September 9, 2009
AQ Kahn Talks about His Role in Developing Pakistan's Bomb
Interview
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Kahn, one of the main creators of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program was interviewed by a Pakistani news program, Islamabad Today. Kahn talks about his role in the development of a Pakistani nuclear bomb and claims Pakistan was ready to test a weapon as early as 1984. Click here for the interview translated into English, hosted offsite.
August 28, 2009
Indian Press Cites NPEC in Nuclear Testing Controversy
New NPEC Book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risks
Book
NPEC reassesses the latest reports on the threat of Pakistani nuclear terrorism in a forthcoming book: Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risks. For this analysis and to download the full volume, click here.
Asia, Pacific Rim
August 18, 2009
NPEC on Upcoming South Korean Rocket Launch
News
The Washington Post quotes NPEC's executive director Henry Sokolski in "S. Korean Launch Raises Questions" by R. Jeffrey Smith and Stella Kim.
May 26, 2009
NPEC on North Korea's Missile Test and Second Nuclear Bomb Test
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center releases "NPEC Celebrates 15 Years". A presentation celebrating 15 years of existence with testimonials from the U.S. and international community.
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents Nuclear Power and Proliferation in the Middle East. Mr. Sokolski made this presentation before the Energy Futures Seminar at the University of California, San Diego, on May 9, 2009.
NPEC releases "Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?," by Amory Lovins. This 15-page January 2009 update and expansion of "Forget Nuclear" in Rocky Mountain Institute´s Spring 2008 Solutions newsletter adds the new data and summarizes why nuclear power, in principle, cannot deliver the climate-protection or energy-security and reliability benefits claimed for it.
NPEC releases "Nuclear Power: How Much More?," by Sharon Squassoni. Ms. Squassoni is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focusing on nuclear nonproliferation and national security.
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents What’s to Keep Atoms for Peace in the Middle East? (March 4, 2009). Mr. Sokolski made this presentation before Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Clearing the Legal Hurdles, a panel discussion co-hosted by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Georgetown University Institute for International Law and Politics in Washington, D.C.
February 9, 2009
NPEC releases "Nuclear Power in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey – how cost effective?," by John Stephenson and Peter Tynan. Mr. Stephenson and Mr Tynan both of Dalberg Global Development Advisors presented the findings at a day-long workshop hosted by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on February 11, 2009.
January 16, 2009
NPEC, National Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and Marshall Institute's letter: Obama Shouldn´t Request Add´l Budget Authority for DoE Loan Guarantee Program Until Taxpayers Are Assured Billions Won´t Be Lost. This letter urges Prsident Barack Obama not to request additional budget authority in the FY 2010 budget for the Department of Energy (DoE) loan guarantee program, and instead to ensure DoE creates a transparent system to assess fully the cost of loan guarantees to U.S. taxpayers before the program goes forward.
December 15, 2008
Mycle Schneider releases "Nuclear Power in France: Beyond the Myth". This study was commissioned by the Greens-European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament. Mr. Schneider, an independent consultant on energy and nuclear policy, made a presentation pertaining to this topic, titled Nuclear Power Made in France: The Model?, at an NPEC-sponsored seminar in September 2008.
Doerte Fouquet presents The TVO Nuclear Finance Case. Dr. Fouquet, a partner at the law firm Kuhbier, presented these slides at Insuring Nuclear Power´s Future, an NPEC- and Chatham House-sponsored meeting in London.
NPEC releases "Nuclear Weapons that Went to War (NWTWTW)," by William Yengst, Stephen Lukasik and Mark Jensen. (DNA-TR-96-25, draft final report sponsored by the U.S. Defense Special Weapons Agency and Science Applications International Corp., October 1996, unclassified.) NPEC research fellow Robert Zarate wrote a brief summary of this study on the Arms Control Wonk weblog.
October 31, 2008
NPEC releases "How Much More Bomb Uranium Will Russia Blend Down?," by Robert Zarate. Mr. Zarate is a research fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. His essay essay looks at the future of Russian high enriched uranium downblending and Russian low enriched uranium sales to the United States in the wake of the so-called "Domenici Amendment" (September 30, 2008), a recent law sponsored by Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) that, among other things, creates new commercial incentives for Russian keep downblending HEU after 2013.
Dalberg Global Development Advisors presents Nuclear Power in Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia: How Cost-Effective?. Peter Tynan and John Stephenson presented these findings at an NPEC conference on Civil Nuclear Energy in an Unstable, Carbon-Constrained World in Prague, Czech Republic, in early 2008.
September 28, 2008
NPEC releases "Pakistan 2020: The Policy Imperatives of Pakistani Demographics," by Craig Cohen. Mr. Cohen is associate vice president for research and programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), He presented a version of this essay at NPEC´s July 2008 workshop symposium, Pakistan´s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risks.
Mycle Schneider presents Nuclear Power Made in France: The Model?. Mr. Schneider, an international consultant on energy and nuclear policy, made this presentation before an NPEC dinner-seminar in mid-September 2008.
September 19, 2008
NPEC releases "The Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Confrontation: Lessons from the Past, Contingencies for the Future," by Neil Joeck. Dr. Joeck is a Senior Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory´s Center for Global Security Research, and served from 2004 to 2005 as Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the National Security Council. He presented a version of this paper at NPEC´s July 2008 workshop symposium, Pakistan´s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risks.
Peter A. Bradford presents "Subsidy Without Borders: The Case of Nuclear Power" before Developing Clean, Innovative Commercial Energy: Will Proposed Federal Subsidies Hurt or Help?, a forum co-hosted by the Marshall Institute and NPEC. Mr. Bradford -- who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Carter and Reagan -- is vice chair of the Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School.
June 13, 2008
Jeff Kueter presents introductory slides before Developing Clean, Innovative Commercial Energy: Will Proposed Federal Subsidies Hurt or Help?, a forum co-hosted by the Marshall Institute and NPEC. Mr. Kueter is president of the George C. Marshall Institute.
World Nuclear News publishes "Nuclear Generation Drops 1.9% in 2007" by WNN Staff. The article -- which is also available on WNN´s website -- reports that "figures from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) show that nuclear power generation worldwide was 50 TWh lower in 2007 than in 2006, mainly due to cutbacks in three countries".
The Wall Street Journal Opinion publishes "Italy´s Nuclear Job" by NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski. This op-ed is also available on the Wall Street Journal Europe´s website.
May 20, 2008
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents testimony, "China and Nuclear Proliferation: Rethinking the Link," before U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Mr. Sokolski is NPEC´s executive director.
May 12, 2008
The Weekly Standard publishes "Advice for the Nuclear Abolitionists" by Henry Sokolski and Gary Schmitt. Mr. Sokolski is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, and Dr. Schmitt is director of the program on advanced strategic studies at the American Enterprise Institute. This article, which is also available on The Weekly Standard´s website, responds to two Wall Street Journal op-eds: "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" (January 4, 2007) and "Toward a Nuclear-Free World" (January 15, 2008), both by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn.
NPEC releases "Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd? (1975)," by Albert Wohlstetter, et al. (18 MB). Co-authored by Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Henry Rowen, Vincent Taylor and Roberta Wohlstetter, this report was filed with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the mid-1970s. It is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters´ work on limiting and managing proliferation and other nuclear dangers.
Peter A. Bradford presents "Nuclear Power as ´Federal Infrastructure´ " (DRAFT). Mr. Bradford, who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Carter and Reagan, is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School. He presented these slides at an NPEC conference at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic.
April 2, 2008
Nuclear EngineeringInternational releases "Buried Costs". Ian Jackson´s article -- which examines the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, and how this might impact the costs of new nuclear power plant-builds in Britain -- excerpts from his new book, Nukenomics: The Commercialization of Britain´s Nuclear Industry. Mr. Jackson, who joined the UK nuclear industry in 1986, has worked in Britain´s Atomic Energy Research Establishment and as a nuclear regulator.
March 30, 2008
NPEC releases "On the Westinghouse AP 1000 Sale to China and its Possible Military Implications (2007)," by Stephen V. Mladineo. Mr. Mladineo is a former nuclear submarine officer, and a U.S. government nuclear threat reduction analyst working at the national laboratories run by Department of Energy; the opinions expressed in this paper are his alone. Commentary is provided by Charles D. Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former nuclear submarine officer.
March 25, 2008
NPEC releases "Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the FSU and the FSRs (1992)," by Albert Wohlstetter. Courtesy the private papers of Henry Sokolski, this previously unpublished note is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter´s work.
NPEC releases "The Concept of ´Timely Warning´ in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978," by Leonard Weiss. Mr. Weiss, who worked for Sen. John Glenn for more than two decades, was the chief architect of the NNPA of 1978 and other legislation sponsored by Sen. Glenn. This essay was originally placed by Sen. Glenn in The Congressional Record of March 21, 1988, in order to establish the legislative intent of the law regarding what is meant by "timely warning" and thus which civil nuclear activities are -- and are not -- effectively safeguardable.
NPEC releases "The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1977)," by Roberta Wohlstetter. This report, a version of which was filed with the US Department of Energy´s predecessor, analyzes how diplomatic confusion over the terms of US-India nuclear cooperation in the 1950s, 60s and 70s unwittingly facilitated India´s construction and May 1974 detonation of a nuclear explosive device. It is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter´s work.
NPEC releases "Towards a New Consensus on Nuclear Technology, Vol. 1 (1979)," by Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones, and Henry S. Rowen. This report is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters´ work on limiting and managing proliferation and other nuclear dangers.
The Wall Street Journal publishes "This ‘Nuclear-Free’ Plan Would Effect the Opposite" by Henry S. Rowen. In this letter to the Editor, Mr. Rowen--a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who served in the Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan and Bush 41 administrations--objects to the inclusion of nuclear fuel assurances in the Nunn-Kissinger-Shultz-Perry ´Nuclear-Free´ plan.
The National Academies Press publishes "Minority Opinion: Dissenting Statements of Gilinsky and Macfarlane" by Victor Gilinsky and Allison Macfarlane. The minority opinion is part of the recently released study, Review of DOE´s Nuclear Energy Research and Development. Dr. Gilinsky, a former NPEC senior associate and Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, and Dr. Macfarlane were members of the Committee on Review of the DOE´s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program, which co-authored this study.
August 6, 2007
NPEC releases "Market-Fortified Nonproliferation," by NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski. This essay is one part of the Century Foundation’s latest publication, Breaking the Nuclear Impasse.
May 10, 2007
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski presents testimony, "Market-Based Nonproliferation," before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at a hearing on nuclear nonproliferation, Every State a Superpower?: Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century. Mr. Sokolski´s "Opening Statement" to the Committee is available here.
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a project of the Institute for International Studies (IIS), is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates policymakers, journalists, and university professors about proliferation threats and possible new policies and measures to meet them.
