The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: June-October 2014

Headlines of the June-October 2014 newsletter of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism:

• Belfer Center Hosts a Conference on U.S.-Russian Relations
• Rosatom: U.S. Sanctions Have Not Affected Russian Nuclear Industry
• Pavel Zolotarev: U.S.-Russian CT Cooperation Depends on Barack Obama’s ‘Behavior’
• Russian Nuclear Manager Arrested in the United States
• New York City Authorities Practice Response to a Nuclear Mushroom Cloud
• Chief of Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resigns
• Graham Allison Educates on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
• U.S. and Russia Remove HEU from Poland, Continue Selected Cooperation in Nuclear Security
• Rosatom and EBRD Announce Milestones for Two Nuclear Disposal Projects
• Rosatom and U.S. Energy Officials Meet in Tomsk
• IS Acquires Uranium, Indicates Interest in Nuclear Weapons
• Russia and U.S. Report Their Civilian Plutonium Stocks
• U.S. and U.K. Team Up to Supply Radiological Materials Transport for Kazakhstan
• Kazakh HEU Sent to Russia with U.S. Help
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Confirmed As Deputy Secretary of Energy
• CIS Security Services Stage Nuclear Exercise
• William Tobey Assesses Barack Obama’s Policy in Combating Nuclear Terrorism
• Taskforce Calls for Continuation of U.S.-Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation
• Russia Decommissions a Research Reactor
• Cesium 137 Canister Gone Missing in Kazakhstan
• Robots to Guard Russian Nuclear Missiles
• Belfer Experts Urge USG Not to Cut Funding for U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation
• U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement Suspended
• Madelyn Creedon Confirmed as Deputy Chief of NNSA
• Anatoly Kulikov Presents at Belfer Center
• Eight Rosatom Enterprises Given Status of Federal Nuclear Organizations
• Atom Exercise Staged in Ozyorsk
• GAO Report Claims U.S. Approach to Securing Nuclear Facilities Remains ‘Chaotic’
• NNSA Assists Belarus and Armenia