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:
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