Securing vulnerable nuclear materials : meeting the global challenge /
Luongo, Kenneth N.
Stanley Foundation.
Muscatine : The Stanley Foundation,
2009.
The global community, with US leadership, has been seriously addressing the challenges of securing vulnerable fissile materials since the fall of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, seventeen years later, significant challenges not only persist but also continue to spread. Despite the fact that not all nuclear security objectives have been accomplished in Russia and the former Soviet states, the danger is no longer confined to that region. The challenges are now more geographically dispersed, and international cooperation on this agenda needs to significantly improve if there is to be any hope of meeting, or even approaching, Obama's four-year goal. In particular, there needs to be a greater global consensus on the urgency of this agenda, more and continued financing for it by the world's wealthiest nations, greater willingness to cooperate on the part of developed and developing nations, and a multilateral implementation plan.
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"November 2009".
The global community, with US leadership, has been seriously addressing the challenges of securing vulnerable fissile materials since the fall of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, seventeen years later, significant challenges not only persist but also continue to spread. Despite the fact that not all nuclear security objectives have been accomplished in Russia and the former Soviet states, the danger is no longer confined to that region. The challenges are now more geographically dispersed, and international cooperation on this agenda needs to significantly improve if there is to be any hope of meeting, or even approaching, Obama's four-year goal. In particular, there needs to be a greater global consensus on the urgency of this agenda, more and continued financing for it by the world's wealthiest nations, greater willingness to cooperate on the part of developed and developing nations, and a multilateral implementation plan.
Security, International.
Nuclear facilities
Weapons of mass destruction
Nuclear arms control
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation