The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: July-October 2015

Headlines of the July-September 2015 issue of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter:

• Moldovan Authorities and FBI Have Interrupted Four Nuclear Smuggling Attempts.
• Belfer Center Experts Call for U.S.-Russian Cooperation against ISIS.
• U.S. Deposits Instrument for Ratification of Nuclear Terrorism Convention.
• U.S. and Russian Leaders Urge International Cooperation against ISIS, But Act Separately.
• Rosatom Launches MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility, Trumpets Spent Fuel Removal.
• Last HEU Removed From Uzbekistan.
• Russia Conducts a Nuclear Terrorism Exercise.
• NNSA and FBI Continue Exercises Designed To Respond To Radiological Terrorism.
• Norway and Russia to Notify Each Other of Nuclear Incidents.
• Russia Increases Financing of Its IAEA Commitments.
• GAO Evaluates Department of Energy’s Effort to Secure Nuclear Materials.
• NNSA Makes Jamaica HEU-Free.
• Hackers Staged 18 Successful Attacks on NNSA Computer Systems in 2010-2014.
• Hans Kristensen on Security Upgrades at Two NATO Nuclear Bases.
• NATO Warns That Threat of WMD Terrorism Is Real.
• USG Official’s Book Claims World Is Not Prepared for Nuclear Terrorist Attack.
• Only Global Cooperation Can Prevent Nuclear Terrorism.
• Nunn: Islamic State May Have Acquired Enough Material to Build Dirty Bomb.
• Nuclear Fuel Bank Established in Kazakhstan.
• Doubt Cast on Reports of Pro-Russian Rebels in Ukraine Building Dirty Bomb.
• Report: Savannah River MOX Facility Would Cost Hundreds of Millions to Complete.
• Graham Allison Briefs National Security Fellows on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
• U.S. Disaster Management Expert: America Not Prepared For a Nuclear Attack.
• Matthew Bunn and Nicholas Roth on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
• U.S. Ratifies Amendment to Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
• Belfer Center Experts and Siegfried Hecker Assess Iran Deal.
• Russia Builds Repository for Special Radioactive Waste.
• Italian Police: Suspected Supporters of Islamic State Planned to Attack Nuclear Base.
• Rosatom Boost Sales of Security and Physical Protection Systems.

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