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| On the U.S.-Russian Civil Nuclear Deal: Full Text of the 123 Agreement, with Administration and Congressional Comment, and Related Materials |
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Administration Documents and Comment
Full text of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (May 6, 2008; formally submitted to Congress on May 13, 2008)
The U.S. Department of State's Nuclear Proliferation Assessment Statement (NPAS) on Russia (formally submitted to Congress on May 13, 2008)
Fact Sheet on U.S.-Russia ("123") Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation by U.S. Department of State (May 6, 2008)
Statement by President Bush (May 6, 2008)
Presidential Determination 2008-19, memorandum from the President to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy on the U.S.-Russia civil nuclear cooperation agreement (May 5, 2008)
Congressional Comment
Letter from Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) to President Bush (May 1, 2008)
Letter from House Energy and Commerce Committee chair John Dingell (D-MI) and House Energy Subcommittee chair Bart Stupak (D-MI) to President Bush (May 7, 2008)
Letter from Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and 30 other Senators to President Bush (May 7, 2008)
ODNI confirms Russia proliferates missile tech to Iran; NASA asks Congress not to force Administration to have to certify otherwise
Letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to the U.S. Department of State assessing that Russian entities continue to assist Iran's ballistic missile program (March 1, 2007)
Extending NASA’s Exemption from the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, CRS Report RL34477 (May 8, 2008)
NPEC Releases Working Paper on U.S.-Russia Nuclear Deal and Related Bilateral Developments
"The Next Phase of U.S.-Russia Civil Nuclear Relations: Opportunities Risks and Choices" (May 5, 2006; updated May 8, 2008) by NPEC research fellow Robert Zarate and NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski. For relevant news coverage, see "Bush Administration Pushes Nuclear Pact with Russia" by Susan Cornwell (Reuters, April 29, 2008)
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| House Minority Leader Appoints NPEC Executive Director to New WMD Commission |
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On May 8, 2008, House minority leader John Boehner announced the appointment of NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski to the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. This commission was established by Title XVIII, Subtitle E, of the Implementing
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53). |
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| Rejoinder to Op-eds by Shultz, Perry, Kissinger & Nunn |
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The Weekly Standard publishes "Advice for the Nuclear Abolitionists" (May 12, 2008) by NPEC's Henry Sokolski and AEI's Gary Schmitt. Mr. Sokolski and Dr. Schmitt's article responds to two Wall Street Journal op-eds, "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons" (January 4, 2007) and "Toward a Nuclear-Free World" (January 15, 2008), by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn. |
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| NPEC in the News |
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NPEC Print and Media Citations |
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| LATEST ENTRIES |
| May 6, 2008 |
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Times Online publishes "Nuclear Reactors Will Cost Twice Estimate, Says E.ON Chief" by Robin Pagnamenta. Published on May 5, 2008, this article is also available on the Times Online website. |
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| May 6, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "The Next Phase of U.S.-Russian Civil Nuclear Relations: Opportunities, Risks and Choices (Draft Overview)," by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski. Mr. Zarate is a research fellow at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), and Mr. Sokolski is NPEC´s executive director. |
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| May 5, 2008 |
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The Weekly Standard publishes "Advice for the Nuclear Abolitionists" by Henry D. Sokolski and Gary Schmitt. Mr. Sokolski is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, and Dr. Schmitt is director of the program on advanced strategic studies at the American Enterprise Institute. This article is also available on The Weekly Standard´s website. |
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| April 26, 2008 |
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The Far Eastern Economic Review publishes "From Pyongyang with Love" by Henry D. Sokolski. This article is also available on The Far Eastern Economic Review´s website. For more, see "Analysts Mull DPRK´s Connection to Syrian Nuclear Site," a segment from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer in which Mr. Henry Sokolski appears. |
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| April 25, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Assisting the Management of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste (NON-PAPER)," by the Government of the United States. This undated non-paper on the implementation of the U.S.-Russia July 2007 Declaration on Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation was circulated at the "Sochi Summit" between Presidents Bush and Putin in early April 2008. |
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| April 24, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "International Finance and Investment for Nuclear Power Projects in Developing Countries (NON-PAPER)," by the Government of the United States. This undated non-paper on the implementation of the U.S.-Russia July 2007 Declaration on Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation was circulated at the "Sochi Summit" between Presidents Bush and Putin in early April 2008. |
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| April 22, 2008 |
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Doug Koplow presents State and Federal Subsidies to Nuclear Power: The Case of Calvert Cliffs Unit III (REVISED DRAFT). Mr. Koplow, founder of Earth Track, presented his findings at an NPEC conference at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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| April 21, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Moving Toward Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd? (1975)," by Albert Wohlstetter, et al. (18 MB). Co-authored by Thomas Brown, Gregory Jones, David McGarvey, Henry Rowen, Vincent Taylor and Roberta Wohlstetter, this report was filed with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the mid-1970s. It is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters´ work on limiting and managing proliferation and other nuclear dangers. |
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| April 16, 2008 |
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Dalberg Global Development Advisors presents Nuclear Power in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey: How Cost Effective? (DRAFT). This update contains an expanded narrative for the slides that Dalberg´s Peter Tynan and John Stephenson presented at NPEC´s March 2008 conference on commercial nuclear energy in an unstable, carbon-constrained world at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. |
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| April 12, 2008 |
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James Acton presents Atoms for Peace in the Middle East: The Technical and Regulatory Requirements (DRAFT). Dr. Acton, who co-authored this presentation with Prof. Wyn Bowen of King´s College London, shared their findings at an NPEC conference hosted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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| April 8, 2008 |
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The American Enterprise Institute and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center presents The Crisis in Nonproliferation: Meeting the Challenge. Co-hosted by AEI and NPEC, this conference featured Robert Einhorn (Center for Strategic and International Studies), J. D. Crouch (National Institute for Public Policy), George Perkovich (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Bruno Tertrais (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique), Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association) Rohi Tripathi (Young India) and other speakers. Archived recordings of the conference proceedings are available in two formats: Video | Audio. |
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| April 7, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Taxpayer Financing for Nuclear Power: Precedents and Consequences," by Peter A. Bradford. Mr. Bradford, who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Carter and Reagan, is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School. |
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| April 6, 2008 |
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Peter A. Bradford presents Nuclear Power as ´Federal Infrastructure´ (DRAFT). Mr. Bradford, who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Carter and Reagan, is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School. He presented these slides at an NPEC conference at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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| April 2, 2008 |
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Nuclear Engineering International releases "Buried Costs". Ian Jackson´s article -- which examines the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, and how this might impact the costs of new nuclear power plant-builds in Britain -- excerpts from his new book, Nukenomics: The Commercialization of Britain´s Nuclear Industry. Mr. Jackson, who joined the UK nuclear industry in 1986, has worked in Britain´s Atomic Energy Research Establishment and as a nuclear regulator. |
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| March 30, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "On the Westinghouse AP 1000 Sale to China and its Possible Military Implications (2007)," by Stephen V. Mladineo. Mr. Mladineo is a former nuclear submarine officer, and a U.S. government nuclear threat reduction analyst working at the national laboratories run by Department of Energy; the opinions expressed in this paper are his alone. Commentary is provided by Charles D. Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former nuclear submarine officer. |
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| March 25, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Nuclear Triggers and Safety Catches, the FSU and the FSRs (1992)," by Albert Wohlstetter. Courtesy the private papers of Henry Sokolski, this previously unpublished note is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter´s work. |
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| March 18, 2008 |
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Mycle Schneider presents Nuclear Power in France: Systemic Issues Influencing Costs (DRAFT). Mr. Scheider, an independent consultant on international energy and nuclear policy, made this presentation at an NPEC conference at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. |
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| March 14, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "official correspondence reaffirming that it is critically important that any nuclear activity protected under the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) afford ´timely warning´ of possible military diversions," by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the US Secretary of State. The correspondence is dated July 17, 2007, and November 19, 2007. For the legislative history of what "timely warning" requires, see "The Concept of ´Timely Warning´ in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978" by Leonard Weiss (The Congressional Record, March 1988). |
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| March 10, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Can Nuclear Power Plants be Built in Britain without Public Subsidies and Guarantees?," by Steve Thomas. Dr. Thomas is a professor at Greenwich University. NPEC commissioned this draft study as a part of the center´s project, Civilian Nuclear Energy in an Unstable, Carbon Constrained World. |
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| March 3, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "The Concept of ´Timely Warning´ in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978," by Leonard Weiss. Mr. Weiss, who worked for Sen. John Glenn for more than two decades, was the chief architect of the NNPA of 1978 and other legislation sponsored by Sen. Glenn. This essay was originally placed by Sen. Glenn in The Congressional Record of March 21, 1988, in order to establish the legislative intent of the law regarding what is meant by "timely warning" and thus which civil nuclear activities are -- and are not -- effectively safeguardable. |
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| February 28, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom," by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski (editor). Electronic copies of this edited volume are available on the Strategic Studies Institute´s website.. |
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| February 26, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1977)," by Roberta Wohlstetter. This report, a version of which was filed with the US Department of Energy´s predecessor, analyzes how diplomatic confusion over the terms of US-India nuclear cooperation in the 1950s, 60s and 70s unwittingly facilitated India´s construction and May 1974 detonation of a nuclear explosive device. It is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter´s work. |
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| February 20, 2008 |
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NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski presents "Against the Tide: Securing Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets" before the Council on Foreign Relations´ roundtable How Secure Are Pakistan’s Nukes? |
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| February 19, 2008 |
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National Review Online publishes "Brains Drained: US Policy Towards Iran’s Rockets, Reactors and Russia" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| February 4, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Towards a New Consensus on Nuclear Technology, Vol. 1 (1979)," by Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Gregory S. Jones, and Henry S. Rowen. This report is also available on Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com, the website for NPEC´s project to highlight the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters´ work on limiting and managing proliferation and other nuclear dangers. |
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| January 31, 2008 |
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National Review Online publishes "Bad Business: Civilian Nuclear Cooperation with Moscow" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| January 28, 2008 |
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Doug Koplow presents "Energy Subsidies: How Much Does Nuclear Power Have in Common with Ethanol?". Mr. Koplow, founder of Earth Track, made this presentation at an NPEC seminar on energy subsidies. |
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| January 22, 2008 |
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The Far Eastern Economic Review publishes "Mr. Rudd Says No to India on Uranium" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on FEER Forum´s website. |
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| January 17, 2008 |
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The Wall Street Journal publishes "Atomic: Why are France and America Helping the Mideast Go Nuclear?" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This op-ed is also available on the Journal´s website. |
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| January 17, 2008 |
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The Wall Street Journal publishes "This ‘Nuclear-Free’ Plan Would Effect the Opposite" by Henry S. Rowen. In this letter to the Editor, Mr. Rowen--a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who served in the Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan and Bush 41 administrations--objects to the inclusion of nuclear fuel assurances in the Nunn-Kissinger-Shultz-Perry ´Nuclear-Free´ plan. |
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| January 16, 2008 |
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Financial Times publishes "No Amount of Juggling Can Nullify Nuclear Investment Risk" by Steve Thomas. Dr. Thomas, a professor of energy policy in the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich (London), wrote this in response to "Reduce the Risk of Nuclear Investment" by David Newbery, a professor of applied economics at Cambridge University. Both Newbery´s and Thomas´ articles are available on the FT´s website. |
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| January 16, 2008 |
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NPEC releases "Pakistan´s Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War," by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski (editor). Electronic copies of this edited volume are available on the Strategic Studies Institute´s website. |
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| January 10, 2008 |
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European Free Alliance in the European Parliament releases "The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007" |
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| December 27, 2007 |
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National Review Online publishes "After Bhutto: A Nation in Crisis" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This symposium--to which Jonathan Foreman, Sumit Ganguly, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Victor Davis Hanson, Mansoor Ijaz, Stanley Kurtz, James S. Robbins and Bill Roggio contributed--is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| December 21, 2007 |
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The Weekly Standard publishes "Policy Implosion: Bush Backs Moscow´s Fueling of Bushehr" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on The Weekly Standard´s website. |
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| December 19, 2007 |
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National Review Online publishes "It´s an Al Gore Christmas: Congress Hands Out Energy-loan Guarantees" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| December 7, 2007 |
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The Heritage Foundation publishes "Don´t Be Misled by NIE on Iran´s Nuclear Efforts" by James Phillips. This article is also available on the Heritage Foundation´s website. |
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| December 6, 2007 |
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National Review Online publishes "What Not to Do after the Pakistani Coup" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. The article is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| December 4, 2007 |
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The Lowy Institute publishes "Indian Nuclear Cooperation: What Will Australia Do?" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. Mr. Sokolski´s op-ed is also available on The Lowy Institute´s website. |
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| November 9, 2007 |
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The Far Eastern Economic Review publishes "Devils Emerge from India Nuclear Deal" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This article is also available on FEER´s website (registration required). |
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| October 30, 2007 |
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The National Academies Press publishes "Minority Opinion: Dissenting Statements of Gilinsky and Macfarlane" by Victor Gilinsky and Allison Macfarlane. The minority opinion is part of the recently released study, Review of DOE´s Nuclear Energy Research and Development. Dr. Gilinsky, a former NPEC senior associate and Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, and Dr. Macfarlane were members of the Committee on Review of the DOE´s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program, which co-authored this study. |
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| October 10, 2007 |
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NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski presents "Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom" before Council on Foreign Relations. These slides complement NPEC´s September 2007 report on IAEA safeguards. |
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| September 7, 2007 |
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Pierre Goldschmidt presents "Rule of Law, Politics and Nuclear Non-proliferation" before the Ecole Internationale de Droit Nucléaire at the Université de Montpellier. Dr. Goldschmidt served previously as the IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. |
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| August 28, 2007 |
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NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski releases "Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom". As featured in The Economist, the final updated version of this NPEC report examines the International Atomic Energy Agency´s ability to safeguard peaceful nuclear energy, and provides a series of recommendations to shore up the NPT-IAEA safeguards system´s shortfalls. For commissioned research associated with this report, visit NPEC´s Projects page. |
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| August 6, 2007 |
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NPEC releases "Market-Fortified Nonproliferation," by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. This essay is one part of the Century Foundation’s latest publication, Breaking the Nuclear Impasse. |
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| June 15, 2007 |
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NPEC releases "Economics of New Nuclear Power and Proliferation Risks in a Carbon-Constrained World," by Jim Harding. Mr. Harding is an energy consultant. |
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| May 10, 2007 |
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NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski presents testimony, "Market-Based Nonproliferation," before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at a hearing on nuclear nonproliferation, Every State a Superpower?: Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century. Mr. Sokolski´s "Opening Statement" to the Committee is available here. |
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| May 9, 2007 |
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NPEC releases "The NPT, IAEA Safeguards and Peaceful Nuclear Energy: An ´Inalienable Right,´ But Precisely To What?," by Robert Zarate. Mr. Zarate presented this essay at Assessing the IAEA´s Ability to Safeguard Peaceful Nuclear Energy, a conference held in Paris, France, and hosted by the French foreign ministry, the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and NPEC in November 2006. |
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| April 30, 2007 |
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National Review Online publishes "Nuclear Consistency: The U.S.-India Deal, and Our Approach to Rogue Nuclear Powers, Is Threatened by Double Standards" by Victor Gilinsky. Dr. Gilinsky -- a former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan -- is an independent energy consultant. This article is also available on NRO´s website. |
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| April 11, 2007 |
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The Journal of International Security Affairs publishes "Nonproliferation, By the Numbers" by NPEC´s executive director, Henry Sokolski. Mr. Sokolski´s essay is also available on JISA´s website. |
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