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30 Years After the Accident: The Meaning of Chernobyl Today?

Leading experts come together to discuss Chernobyl on the eve of its 30th anniversary, the lessons learned, and possible implications that this fateful event has for the nuclear industry today. More details and information on registering for this exclusive event here.

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30 Years After the Accident: The Meaning of Chernobyl Today?

FAS Nuclear Notebook: Russian Nuclear Forces, 2016

In the latest FAS Nuclear Notebook published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Kristensen and Norris and take the pulse on Russia’s nuclear arsenal, reviewing its strategic modernization programs and the status of its non-strategic nuclear forces. Russia’s non-strategic nuclear forces are currently the subject of much interest in NATO due to concerns that Russian military strategy has been lowering the threshold for when nuclear weapons could potentially be used. Russia has also been increasing operations and exercises with nuclear-capable forces, a trend that can also be seen in NATO and U.S. military posturing.

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FAS Nuclear Notebook: Russian Nuclear Forces, 2016

New START Data Shows Russian Increases and US Decreases

Russia continues to increase the number of strategic warheads it deploys on its ballistic missiles counted under the New START Treaty, according to the latest aggregate data released by the US State Department. The data shows that Russia now has almost 200 strategic warheads more deployed than when the New START treaty entered into force in 2011. The United States, in contrast, has continued to decrease its deployed warheads and the data shows that the United States currently is counted with 1,481 deployed strategic warheads – 69 warheads below the treaty limit.

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New START Data Shows Russian Increases and US Decreases

35 Nobel Laureates Call on World Leaders to Take Action on Nuclear Terrorism

In a letter dated March 26, 2016, 35 Nobel Laureates from physics, chemistry, and medicine urge national leaders attending President Obama’s fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit on March 31st to reduce the risk of nuclear or radiological terrorism to near-zero. The letter, written by Dr. Burton Burton Richter, a Nobel Laureate in physics and the Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences at Stanford University and Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Dr. Charles Ferguson, President of FAS, and list of signees is available here.

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35 Nobel Laureates Call on World Leaders to Take Action on Nuclear Terrorism

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Suggestions about Japan’s Nuclear Fuel Recycling Policy Based on U.S. Concerns

By FAS | March 23, 2016

In this issue brief, Yusei Nagata, an FAS Research Fellow from MEXT, Japan, analyzes U.S. experts’ opinions and concerns about Japan’s nuclear fuel recycling problem and considers what Japan can (and should) do to solve it.

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30 Years After the Accident: The Meaning of Chernobyl Today?

April 26, 2016 2-4:00 p.m. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Choate Room 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Leading experts come together to discuss Chernobyl on the eve of its 30th anniversary, the lessons learned, and p …

Finishing the Race: Eliminating and Minimizing Fissile Materials and High-Risk Radioactive Sources

On March 30, at the 2016 NGO conference, “Solutions for a Secure Nuclear Future” (www.ssnf2016.org) preceding the official Nuclear Security Summit, FAS President Charles D. Ferguson presented on the topic of reducing the risk of high-activity radioacti …

Briefing and Report Release: Naval Nuclear Reactors and Use of Highly Enriched Uranium

Friday, March 20, 2015 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. Russell Senate Office Building, Room 385 Washington, DC The United States and other countries with nuclear navies have benefited from having nuclear-powered warships. But do the continued benefits depend on i …

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