Our Current Initiatives

We take an "integrative approach" to preventing nuclear proliferation and reducing the risks of nuclear terrorism. We address four basic contributors to the spread of nuclear weapons:

• The growing presence of weapons-usable material---plutonium and bomb-grade uranium--- in civilian nuclear power and research programs.
  
  
• Behavior of the nuclear-weapon states that stimulates or facilitates other states going nuclear. Refusing to dispose of weapons materials recovered from dismantled warheads or disposing of them in a way that promotes commerce in plutonium are current examples of such behavior.
  
  
• Loopholes in U.S. nuclear laws and regulations and in international nuclear agreements that permit transfers of technology, equipment and materials that are directly applicable to manufacture of nuclear weapons.
  
  
• Regional rivalries and tensions that drive nations to acquire nuclear weapons.

In pursuing this integrative approach, the Nuclear Control Institute undertakes initiatives in the following areas:

Plutonium

Bomb-Grade Uranium

Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Terrorism

U.S. Nuclear Laws and Regulations

Regional Approaches