This week, world leaders descended on Seoul, South Korea, for the second global Nuclear Security Summit -- a project that started with President Obama's call to secure all vulnerable nuclear material in four years (by the end of 2013). Unfortunately, most of these world leaders did not storm the gates of the summit ready to fight for that deadline. Many walked into a meeting already overshadowed by various domestic agendas and geopolitics, putting a damper on the real purpose of the gathering.

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A compilation of quality nuclear policy news published on the Web, around the world. Iran Nuclear Deal Kaine: IDF chief agrees Iran deal stopped nuclear program United States NNSA Head: ‘All Bets Are Off’ for Warhead Modernization Under Sequestration Meet a Machine: RPMs keep watch 24/7 to strengthen global nuclear security South Carolina Nuclear Fuel … Continued

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Holding another Nuclear Security Summit is a good idea, but leaders must go further.

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The year now concluding was full of interesting and unpredictable news regarding nuclear weapons and their accoutrements; the year was, therefore, also continuously, enormously threatening to humanity.  

Tens of thousands of people came to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ website over the last week, looking for answers on what a new Trump administration means for the health and safety of our planet. As Bulletin editor John Mecklin writes, Donald Trump’s positions on serious questions have often ricocheted from side to side: … Continued

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The Black Sea region is one of the world's critical crossroads, a strategic intersection of east -- west and north -- south corridors that enable the free flow of people, ideas, and goods from Asia to Europe and from former Soviet territory to the Middle East and Africa. It is also the center of the world's nuclear black market.

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Former US Senator Sam Nunn, co-architect of the Nunn-Lugar Act, talks to the Bulletin about his organization’s new Nuclear Security Index and the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit.

The implementation of President Obama's Nuclear Posture Review is now occurring, out of public view but with potentially enormous implications, depending on the outcome. The Nuclear Posture Review was mandated by Congress to establish US nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and forces for the next five to 10 years. In theory, it was intended to further President Obama's Prague agenda of reducing nuclear dangers and to work toward a world without nuclear weapons, but with global security.

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