The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: June - August 2016

Headlines of the June – August 2016 issue of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter:

• William Tobey and Matthew Bunn Look Beyond Nuclear Security Summits.
• Russian Members of Elbe Group Weigh in on U.S.-Russian Security Relationship.
• Graham Allison on Why ISIS Fears Israel.
• Indonesia Becomes HEU-Free.
• Bunn and Samore Call for Abandoning the MOX Fuel Facility.
• Attempted Coup in Turkey Raises Questions about Security of U.S. Nukes There.
• Russia’s New Program for Management of Spent Fuel.
• Chemical-Metallurgical Plant to Be Shut Down.
• Clandestine GAO Team Manages to Buy Components for Dirty Bomb.
• Ukraine’s NPPs Host Anti-Terrorism Exercise.
• FSB General To Become Advisor at Rosatom.
• Russia Supplies HEU to A German Reactor.
• Two Dozen Convicts and Suspects in Georgian Jails for Nuclear Smuggling.
• National Guard Established to Guard Nuclear Facilities.
• U.S. Researchers Develop Methods to Detect Fake Nukes, Real HEU.
• NNSA Delegation Visits Belarus.
• Radiation Monitors Destroyed in Course of Conflict in Donbass.
• Siegfried Hecker’s New Book on U.S.-Russian Lab-to-Lab Cooperation.
• NNSA Works to Improve Detection of Nuclear Smuggling.
• Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Turns 10.
• Russian Organization Trains for Spent Fuel Emergency.
• Japanese Nuclear Materials Arrive in U.S.
• Luxembourg Forum Experts on ISIS’s WMD Threat.
• Security Firm that Employed Florida Shooter Guards Nuclear Sites.
• U.S. State Department on Russia’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts.