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Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nuclear Policy Program
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Nuclear Policy Program is accepting applications for the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Program. Carnegie will award one fellowship for the 2016-2017 year. Deadline is January 4 2016.
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The United States Never Really Expected Iran to Come Totally Clean About a Key Element of Its Nuclear Program
Armin Rosen, Business Insider
December 1, 2015
From a relatively early stage, the State Department believed that the IAEA was capable of monitoring Iran's nuclear program without Iran fully disclosing its past activities.
"An Iranian admission of its past nuclear weapons program is unlikely and is not necessary for purposes of verifying JCPOA commitments going forward."
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A Verdict on Iranian Military Nukes Won't Kill the Deal
Robert Einhorn, The National Interest
November 30, 2015
We will learn very shortly what the IAEA report says. But with Iran reportedly having cooperated only minimally under the road map and continuing to deny that it ever engaged in nuclear weapons-related activities, it seems very likely that the report will be inconclusive.
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ISIS REPORT: Analysis of IAEA Iran Safeguards Report
Institute for Science and International Security
November 18, 2015
This report covers the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) latest safeguards report on Iran dated November 18, 2015 and the reporting period since the last safeguards report from August 27, 2015, during which the interim Joint Plan of Action has remained in effect. It also discusses Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and IAEA/Iran Roadmap related activities and developments.
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Could US-Russia Tensions Go Nuclear?
November 27, 2015
Believe it or not, hair-trigger launch alerts are still with us-and perhaps even more dangerous than during the Cold War.
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3-EU Starts Legal Action Over Hungary Nuclear Project
Barbara Lewis and Gergely Szakacs, Reuters
November 19, 2015
European Union regulators started legal action against Hungary on Thursday over a contract it awarded to Russia's Rosatom to expand the Paks nuclear power plant, but Hungary said it would press ahead with its plans.
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George Osborne Puts UK at the Heart of Global Race
for Mini-Nuclear Reactors
Damian Carrington, UK Guardian
November 24, 2015
The chancellor's ambitious plans aim to position the UK as a leader in nuclear innovation, led by small, factory-built reactors ready to provide affordable, low-carbon energy wherever it is needed.
George Osborne revealed on Wednesday that at least £250m will be spent by 2020 on an "ambitious" programme to "position the UK as a global leader in innovative nuclear technologies".
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Egypt, Russia Sign Deal to Build a Nuclear Power Plant
Reuters
November 19, 2015
Moscow and Cairo signed an agreement on Thursday for Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt, with Russia extending a loan to Egypt to cover the cost of construction.
A spokesman for Russia's state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom said the plant, Egypt's first, would be built at Dabaa in the north of the country and was expected to be completed by 2022.
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ARMS CONTROL AND NONPROLIFERATION
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You're NUTS: New Nuclear Cruise Missiles are Inherently Destabilizing
James Doyle, The National Interest
November 30, 2015
Nuclear-armed cruise missiles are destabilizing, redundant and would assign missions to nuclear weapons that can be fulfilled with modern conventional weapons the Pentagon is already deploying. As a result, developing and deploying the nuclear LRSO cruise missile would be the opposite of reducing the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy and could lower the threshold of nuclear use during a crisis.
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NEW BOOK: Why Do States Cooperate on Nonproliferation?
Jeffrey W. Knopf, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
November 16, 2015
Many discussions of nonproliferation focus on foundational global treaties, such as the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) or Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have added a number of other cooperative arrangements alongside these core treaties.
International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation is the first major study to systematically examine these other cooperative arrangements for limiting proliferation. The book seeks to understand why these other cooperative measures have emerged, to identify the reasons why states choose whether or not to participate in them, and to assess their effectiveness.
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Why Nuclear Armageddon Is a Very Real Danger
Kyle Mizokami, The Week
November 24, 2015
"Those that lived through the Cold War - myself included - were glad when it ended. Yet the nuclear danger never really went away, just the antagonism between the United States and what is now Russia. Now, slowly, that antagonism is creeping back - and with it, the possibility of nuclear war."
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WIPP's No Place for Plutonium
Lauren Villgran, Albuquerque Journal
November 29, 2015
Disposing of diluted weapons-grade plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside Carlsbad could "introduce a new accident scenario ... that would significantly increase the environmental impact and threaten the continued operation of WIPP," according to the report, which was issued this month by consultant High Bridge Associates Inc.
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