IAEA Safeguards Implementation Report for 2012 Highlights Serious Deficiencies
Pierre Goldschmidt | Carnegie Article
In normal practice, the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meets in early June, takes note of the Safeguards Implementation Report, and authorizes the public release of a Safeguards Statement and a Background to the Safeguards Statement and Summary. But this time was different.
Turkey May Adopt Chinese Air Defense System
Burak Ege Bekdil | Defense News
Turkey is strongly leaning toward adopting a Chinese long-range anti-missile and air defense system, Turkish procurement officials said, even though it may be impossible to integrate the system with its existing NATO architecture.
Russia Offers Iran New Replacement for S-300
RIA Novosti
Moscow made a new attempt to dodge a $4-billion lawsuit from Tehran over a failed deal to supply S-300 missile systems by offering another type of air defense system to Iran, Kommersant daily said Saturday.
Plutonium Problem Lingers as Mixed-Oxide Fuel Comes to Japan
Asahi Shimbun
A shipment of mixed-oxide fuel will arrive in Japan as early as June 27, part of the nation’s plutonium stockpile that is already equivalent to 5,000 Nagasaki-type atomic bombs.
India Assures U.S. a Share of Nuclear Pie
The Hindu
India and the U.S. on Monday agreed to set a timeline for operationalising the civil nuclear agreement. The Fourth Strategic Dialogue co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here reviewed several issues ranging from the status of civil nuclear ties between the two countries through defence trade to education and cultural exchanges — through some 30 bilateral panels.
Nuclear Waste: How a Huge U.S. Nonproliferation Program Became a Major Proliferation Concern
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith | Center for Public Integrity
Dark clouds hover over this ambitious federal project, 17 years in the making and at least six more from completion — if, indeed, it is ever completed. It lies at the center of one of the United States’ most troubled, technically complex, costly, and controversial efforts to secure nuclear explosive materials left stranded by the end of the Cold War.