Non-Proliferation

Corey Hinderstein became the acting principal deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday, the head of the agency told all hands Monday. In an email, Jill Hruby, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said that “I have selected Corey Hinderstein to serve as Acting Principal Deputy Administrator (NA-2) for […]

Media reported this week that Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is “ready” to host U.S. nuclear weapons on Polish territory. Duda made the declaration Monday in a Polish-language interview with the Polish publication Fakt.    House Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee, including Rep. Joe Wlson (R-S.C.), whose district includes the Savannah River Site in Aiken, […]

President Joe Biden (D) this week signed a $95-billion foreign aid bill that includes funds to help the National Nuclear Security Administration monitor radiological threats in war-torn Ukraine. Biden signed the bill Wednesday after it easily passed the Senate Tuesday on a 79-18 vote. It was a modified piece of Senate legislation that the House […]

A day after the Senate passed it, President Joe Biden (D) on Wednesday signed a $95-billion foreign aid bill that includes funds to help the National Nuclear Security Administration monitor radiological threats in war-torn Ukraine. The bill easily passed the Senate 79-18 on Tuesday. It was a modified piece of Senate legislation that the House […]

The supplemental national security appropriations bill the House passed Saturday has about $150 million for the National Nuclear Security Administration to help monitor nuclear Ukrainian power plants occupied by invading Russians. President Joe Biden (D) has said he will sign the roughly $95-billion proposal, which the House split into three bills and recombined after receiving […]

Local police this week arrested at least 10 antiwar advocates who were part of a protest that included about 50 people outside the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus in Kansas City, Mo., the local Kansas City Star reported. The Star did not say why the protesters chose to demonstrate at […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday planned to finish low-flying helicopter flights measuring radiation levels over the Boston Marathon route, the agency said in a press release. As it often does ahead of big-crowd events in public places, the agency’s Nuclear Emergency Support Team will measure radiation levels along the route to create a […]

Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) led 24 Democrats who introduced a bill Wednesday that supports the continued value of arms control and condemns Russia for suspending the bilateral New START nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington. The bill, which was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calls for the administration of President Joe […]

Leaders of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee said Tuesday they are working on dueling bills to sanction either all, or parts, of Russia’s state-owned nuclear-energy corporation. “I am in the process of drafting a tough sanctions bill that would mandate the administration decouple the U.S. and our allies from Rosatom,” Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) said […]

Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), spoke this week at the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, which the nuclear-weapons agency co-hosted with the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control. The NNSA posted Hruby’s prepared remarks online.   During the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors’ meeting […]

Congressional delay in funding legacy cleanup from nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands — covered in a recent Government Accountability Office report —hurts relations between the United States and the strategically-located Pacific nation, the president of the Marshall Islands told a U.K. newspaper this week. U.S. lawmakers are dragging their feet in funding a […]

Congressional delay in funding legacy cleanup from nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands — covered in a recent Government Accountability Office report —hurts relations between the United States and the strategically-located Pacific nation, the president of the Marshall Islands told a U.K. newspaper this week. U.S. lawmakers are dragging their feet in funding a […]

A high-ranking Japanese member of the Yakuza international organized crime syndicate allegedly planned to traffic materials containing uranium and weapons grade plutonium from Burma to other countries, including Iran, the Department of Justice wrote this week in a press release describing an indictment against Takeshi Ebisawa in the U.S. Southern District of New York. “As […]

An Iranian-born ex-professor, fired from the University of Toledo in Ohio for allegedly allowing an Iranian citizen to access software owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration, sued the school for wrongful termination, alleging multiple counts of discrimination. Ishmael Parsai, a 69 year-old, nationalized U.S. citizen born in Iran, sued the university in November after […]

An Iranian-born ex-professor, fired from the University of Toledo in Ohio for allegedly allowing an Iranian citizen to access software owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration, sued the school for wrongful termination, alleging multiple counts of discrimination. E. Ishmael Parsai, a 69 year-old, nationalized U.S. citizen born in Iran, sued the university in November […]

Henry Kissinger, a Cold War diplomat and presidential adviser called one of the more consequential and controversial figures of the 20th century, died Thursday at age 100, national media reported. Kissinger, who spoke with a European accent, became “an unlikely media star” during his time as secretary of state for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald […]

A trilateral partnership to give Australia nuclear powered attack submarines is “an enduring commitment,” a “generational opportunity” and a major investment in the economy, a senior state department official said in prepared remarks Monday. The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. is “is an opportunity for us not only to strengthen […]

Henry Kissinger, a Cold War diplomat and presidential adviser called one of the more consequential and controversial figures of the 20th century, died Thursday at age 100, national media reported. Kissinger, who spoke with a European accent, became “an unlikely media star” during his time as secretary of state for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald […]

A trilateral partnership to give Australia nuclear powered attack submarines is “an enduring commitment,” a “generational opportunity” and a major investment in the economy, a senior state department official said in prepared remarks Monday. The AUKUS partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. is “is an opportunity for us not only to strengthen […]

Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and several of his Republican colleagues are raising concerns over a “troubling report on the state of the counterintelligence enterprise” at the Department of Energy and of the subsequent reassignment of Director Steven Black, who led the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence for eleven years. In a Nov. 21 statement, the […]

There is no evidence that classified information was disclosed during an open, unclassified National Nuclear Security Administration at Department of Energy Headquarters’ Forrestal Building in September of last year, an agency watchdog report found. However, the suspected incident was not properly reported, according to a DOE Inspector General (IG) report published Nov. 2.  In September […]

Russia’s recent de-ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty goes against the global tide of embracing the pact that seeks to formally outlaw nuclear explosive testing, the head of the treaty’s governing body said this week. There is significant international momentum in support of the treaty, which has nearly 200 signatories but has not yet […]

There is no evidence that classified information was disclosed during an open, unclassified National Nuclear Security Administration at Department of Energy Headquarters’ Forrestal Building in September of last year, an agency watchdog report found. However, the suspected incident was not properly reported, according to a DOE Inspector General (IG) report published Nov. 2.  In September […]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday decried Russia’s withdrawal from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Moscow’s revocation of its ratification of the treaty “represents a significant step in the wrong direction, taking us further from, not closer to, entry into force,” Blinken said in a statement.  President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Radiological Security and Jordan’s Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission have eliminated the Middle Eastern nation’s reliance on radioactive materials for human blood research and testing.  With the NNSA’s help, Jordan has now replaced all high-activity cesium-137 irradiators with X-ray technology, the agency said in an Oct. 30 statement. […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Radiological Security and Jordan’s Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission have eliminated the Middle Eastern nation’s reliance on radioactive materials for human blood research and testing.  With the NNSA’s help, Jordan has now replaced all high-activity cesium-137 irradiators with X-ray technology, the agency said in an Oct. 30 statement. […]

Last week, a team of engineers at the Nevada National Security Site detonated an explosive device underground in hopes of improving the U.S. ability to detect lower-yield nuclear explosions elsewhere in the world.  A National Nuclear Security Administration-led team conducted what the agency called a “subsurface chemical explosion” in the P tunnel in Area 12 […]

Last week, a team of engineers at the Nevada National Security Site detonated an explosive device underground in hopes of improving the U.S. ability to detect lower-yield nuclear explosions elsewhere in the world.  A National Nuclear Security Administration-led team conducted what the agency called a “subsurface chemical explosion” in the P tunnel in Area 12 […]

Future arms control agreements will be non-treaty accords that begin with “stealthy” conversations between diplomats willing to buck the status quo, a retired State Department official said in Washington at a government-sponsored forum named for him. Even before China began expanding its nuclear arsenal and Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time this century, it […]

Future arms control agreements will be non-treaty accords that begin with “stealthy” conversations between diplomats willing to buck the status quo, a retired State Department official said in Washington at a government-sponsored forum named for him. Even before China began expanding its nuclear arsenal and Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time this century, it […]