The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: March - May 2016

Headlines of the March - May 2016 issue of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter:

• Olli Heinonen on Wide Range of Nuclear Safety and Security Risks.
• Senator Nunn Calls for U.S.-Russian Cooperation against WMD Terrorism.
• Siegfried Hecker on Persisting Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
• Amended Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Comes into Force.
• Pentagon Honors Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
• Graham Allison on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
• Tajikistan Gets Two Secure Storages Facilities.
• U.S. and Russian Experts Discuss Options for Implementation of US-Russia Plutonium Disposition Agreement.
• Georgia Arrests Uranium Smugglers.
• Allison and Tobey: Could There Be a Terrorist Fukushima?
• Final Nuclear Security Summit Takes Place in Russia’s Absence.
• NNSA Details Its Remaining Activities in Russia.
• U.S. Declares Reduction in HEU Stockpile.
• Russia Reforms Nuclear Guard.
• Ukraine Conducts Nuclear CT Exercise.
• Elbe Group Warns of Rising Risk of Nuclear Terrorism, Urges Cooperation.
• Russia Defines What Nuclear Fuel Is.
• Belfer Center Experts: Job of Improving Nuclear Security Is Never Done.
• NNSA Delegation Visits Russia.
• Olli Heinonen on Nuclear “Triplets”
• NTI Reports Progress in Securing of Radiological Materials.
• Belfer Center Experts on Terrorist Threats Posed by ISIS.
• Report: Obama’s Effort to Strengthen Nuclear Security Has Fallen Short.
• IPFM on HEU Production Ban.
• Minsu Crowder-Han Calls for Realistic Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism Threat.