The U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter: May – June 2015

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

• U.S. Strategy Notes Russia’s Role in Counter-Terrorism, but Warns of Possible War
• Anti-Terror Drill at the Siberian Chemical Combine
• Belfer Center Experts Testify in Senate on Iran’s Nuclear Program, Non-Proliferation
• GICNT Meeting in Helsinki
• Russia and Norway to Agree on Early Warning for Nuclear Accidents
• Kazakhstan to Host Nuclear Fuel Bank
• Two U.S. Nuclear Weapons Labs Fined For Disclosing Classified Information
• Obama Signs Physical Protection Convention, Other Documents into Law
• Russian MFA and Rosatom to Cooperate on Nuclear Security
• Russian, Kazakh and U.S. Officials and Experts Discuss Threat Reduction in Astana
• IAEA Hosts Its First Conference on Cyber Security of Nuclear Facilities
• American and Russian Experts on Dangers of Confrontation between U.S. and Russia
• Obama’s Letter Draws the Line under Megatons to Megawatts Program
• Olli Heinonen on Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
• Former U.S. Nuclear Plant Employee Charged With Making Terrorist Threats
• NNSA and ANRA Cooperate to Remove Radioactive Sources
• U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Approves $1.7bn for Nuclear Non-Proliferation
• Kurchatov Decommissions HEU Reactor
• Islamic State Claims It Can Buy a Nuclear Weapon within a Year
• NNSA Holds a Nuclear Forensics Course for Specialists from Former Soviet Union
• Belfer Center Experts Urge Continued Funding for Nuclear Detectors
• Three Anti-Nuclear Activists Released from U.S. Prison
• Documents from OBL’s House Show Interest in Nuclear Sites
• Putin and Lavrov Host Kerry to Discuss Terrorism and Proliferation of WMD
• U.S. Has Down-blended Over 146 Tons of HEU
• NNSA Plans to Spend $60 Million on Nuclear Security in Russia
• IAEA Releases Guide on Nuclear Material Accounting and Control.