Sentences with phrase «for nonproliferation»

Reports conducted by the congressionally - appointed National Defense Panel and Center for Nonproliferation Studies indicate the nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $ 1 trillion to modernize.

May 16, 2018 • Researchers at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies say the country has used front companies and intermediaries to market products, sometimes to unwitting consumers.

From 1993 through 1996 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council.

March 27, 2018 - LIVERMORE — Harnessing the unusual characteristics of the elusive subatomic particles known as antineutrinos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will lead a new international multi-laboratory and university collaboration for nonproliferation research.

Miles Pomper is a Senior Research Associate in the Washington DC office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).

Christopher Bidwell, adjunct senior fellow for nonproliferation law and policy at FAS, moderated the discussion.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

Leonard Spector of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer of chemical arms out of Syria».

William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told Reuters: We are in a much more dangerous situation today than we were in the Cold War.

«This is a very big missile,» Michael Duitsman, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, tweeted.

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«It remains U.S. policy, as it has been for some time, to seek the strongest possible nonproliferation protections in every instance,» he told the senators.

«Trump is basically creating audience costs for Kim to back down,» Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, told Vox.

As already explained, when North Korea left the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the western powers gave it an aid package in return for an agreement not to pursue nuclear weapons.

For decades, a «dirty bomb in a suitcase» has been a looming fear of intelligence communities, and is one of the big reasons for nuclear containment and nonproliferatiFor decades, a «dirty bomb in a suitcase» has been a looming fear of intelligence communities, and is one of the big reasons for nuclear containment and nonproliferatifor nuclear containment and nonproliferation.

Fellows are assigned to one of the three bureaus under the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International SecurityÑArms Control, Verification, and Compliance (AVC) Bureau, the International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) Bureau, or the Political - Military Affairs (PM) Bureau.

The United States — India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act allows India to import nuclear technology and fuel in exchange for opening up most of its nuclear facilities to international inspections.

Earl Lane / AAAS There is enough highly enriched uranium on hand to fuel non-weapon uses of the fissile material for a century, a nonproliferation...

This has applications for nuclear plant safety, as well as national security and nuclear nonproliferation monitoring.

That reaction concerns Jonathan Tucker, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, D.C. «The smallpox situation sets a troubling precedent for other infectious diseases, such as polio and measles,» he says.

In a letter to President Barack Obama on 8 August, 29 prominent U.S. physicists and nonproliferation experts (including Science's executive publisher, Rush Holt), praised the «innovative agreement» for providing «much more stringent constraints than any previously negotiated non-proliferation framework.»

Converting one of its most controversial sites to a civilian R&D center «is clearly a face - saving gesture,» says physicist James Acton, a nonproliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. «It's not clear what sort of research will be done at Fordow,» says Pierce Corden, a disarmament expert and visiting scholar at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider).

Clearly it is preferable for them to work with a responsible, nonproliferation treaty state like Japan, rather than a non-treaty state.

Drell's endorsement rests on several assumptions, he notes: that RRW is not a weapon for new applications, that it does not drain funds from the successful maintenance of existing weapons and that it would not violate nonproliferation treaties.

Nuclear Security — To address our national security needs and meet emerging threats from around the globe, the bill provides a total of $ 13.9 billion for DOE's nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017 level.

The game's creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.

«The promise of NiDOBDC and similar metal - organic frameworks is that we will be able to make faster and more sensitive separation and monitoring equipment,» said Grate, who has been working in materials and systems for sensing and nonproliferation applications for his entire career at PNNL.

Boozman asked about the need for NASA to get another waiver from the Iran - North Korea - Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA).

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY Martin Schoonen is Associate Laboratory Director at Brookhaven National Laboratory responsible for Environmental Science, Biology, Nuclear Science and Technology and Nonproliferation.

PULLMAN, Wash. — The role of university research in national security will be discussed by the deputy administrator for defense nuclear nonproliferation for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in the Goertzen Hall atrium at Washington State University.

«NNSA pursues its mission in nuclear security through the application of world - class capabilities, and meets the evolving challenges of tomorrow through our commitment to innovation and research in the fundamental sciences needed to adapt to this dynamic yet enduring nonproliferation and nuclear security mission,» said Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferationonproliferation and nuclear security mission,» said Anne Harrington, NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear NonproliferationNonproliferation, in a release.

NASA will be dependent on Soyuz for some years to come, however, and will need another waiver from the Iran - North Korea - Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) to buy crew transportation and lifeboat services from Russia after mid-2016.

We reiterate that safeguards (nuclear nonproliferation), nuclear safety and nuclear security (3S) are fundamental principles for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

«While almost two years in the making, this new decrease in dangerous and costly nuclear arsenals sets the stage for not only improved Russian - American relations, but also for much more effective global nonproliferation policies.»