The NTI website offers daily news and in-depth resources about the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and related issues, featuring:

new In Focus: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) - All NTI Resources Related to the NPT, Including Analysis, Databases and Tutorials

new In Focus: Nuclear Security Summit - NTI resources related to nuclear security

new In Focus: New START - all NTI resources on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia

In Focus: U.S. Nuclear Posture Reviews - NTI resources related to U.S. Nuclear Posture Reviews

In Focus: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) - all NTI resources related to CTBT issues, including analysis, databases and tutorials

In Focus: Nuclear Security in Pakistan - all NTI resources related to Pakistan's nuclear security, including issue briefs, country profiles, tutorials and maps

Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas: a 2009 Update - a June 2009 NTI commissioned report by Andrew Newman and Matthew Bunn, Project on Managing the Atom

In Focus: North Korea - all NTI resources related to North Korea, including issue briefs, missile chronologies, capabilities, maps and an overview of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs

Global Security Newswire - daily news on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons terrorism and related issues.

Country Profiles - overviews and in-depth profiles of selected countries' weapons programs.

Securing the Bomb - comprehensive threat reduction budget data and program analysis.

UNSC Resolution 1540 Database -
a comprehensive database that provides analysis of UNSCR 1540, regional overviews of activities, nuclear, biological and chemical capabilities, and a complete state-by-state listing of 1540 reporting, as well as terrorist threats relating to its implementation.

Source Documents - publications on nonproliferation issues by government agencies and non-governmental organizations.

WMD411 - an information resource on the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and a range of policy options to reduce these threats.

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In Focus

This section presents a rotating collection of resources that are especially relevant in the light of current world events.

North Korea in Focus

In this section, you will find all NTI resources related to North Korea, including missile chronologies, capabilities and maps, and an overview of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. Click here »

In Focus: Nuclear Security in Pakistan

You will find here all NTI resources related to Pakistan's nuclear security, including issue briefs, country profiles, tutorials and maps. Click here »

International Nuclear Fuel Bank Developments

To help prevent the spread of uranium enrichment technology, NTI has pledged $50 million to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help create a low-enriched uranium stockpile to support nations that make the sovereign choice not to build indigenous nuclear fuel cycle capabilities. NTI's funds will be released if the IAEA takes the necessary steps to set up the fuel bank and other nations provide $100 million in matching funds. On December 26, 2007, President Bush signed into law a $50 million appropriation toward this effort. Click here »

Nuclear Trafficking Resources

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been over a dozen confirmed incidents of fissile material trafficking around the world.

NTI and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies have gathered these resources on nuclear trafficking, including databases, an issue brief and world map of civilian highly enriched uranium stocks. Read an overview of confirmed proliferation-significant incidents of fissile material trafficking in the Newly Independent States (1991 - 2007). Click here »

SECURING THE BOMB 2008

Securing the Bomb 2008, commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, finds that the world still faces a "very real" risk that terrorists could get a nuclear bomb. The Obama Administration must make reducing that risk a top priority of U.S. security policy and diplomacy, according to the report, which is accompanied by a paper offering a specific agenda for the presidential transition and the opening weeks of the new administration.

Read the Executive Summary (319KB) or the Full Report (1.28MB)
Read "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: An Agenda for the Next President"
Read the Release

If you would like to receive a printed copy of Securing the Bomb 2008 (available in December 2008) please fill out an online form

Read the Executive Summary (396K PDF) or the Full Report (2.54M PDF)
Read the News Release
Visit washingtonpost.com for special Securing the Bomb 2007 interactive features.
Watch the Securing the Bomb slide show

Nuclear Terrorism

		Primer on WMD: Nuclear Terrorism — WMD411 collection of resources
		Nuclear Terrorism Tutorial — provides an overview of the nuclear terrorism threat and prevention options
		Blocking the Terrorist Pathway to the Bomb — provides an analytical framework for considering the kinds of actions needed to prevent nuclear terrorism
		The Demand for Black Market Fissile Material — looks at states and terrorist groups that have actively sought stolen nuclear materials

Civilian HEU Reduction and Elimination

The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is obtaining fissile material, either plutonium or highly enriched uranium (HEU).

This section of the web site identifies the terrorist risks posed by civilian use of highly enriched uranium (HEU), discusses proposals for consolidating, reducing, and eliminating the civilian use of HEU, and identifies political, social, economic, and technical impediments to the elimination of civilian use of HEU. Also included is an interactive map showing civil HEU stocks around the world. Click here »

WMD411

WMD411 is a comprehensive resource guide for those interested in efforts to prevent the spread and the use of weapons of mass destruction. It is produced by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies for the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

WMD411 covers a wide range of topics: definitions and effects of weapons of mass destruction, production, proliferation and use of WMD, terrorism, strategies of curbing WMD proliferation and case studies.
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Past success stories

Sunflowers near Pervomaysk, Ukraine, were planted where missiles silos used to be.

From Silos to Sunflowers

With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine was one of the four former Soviet republics to inherit nuclear weapons. Strategically located, Ukraine's territory held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world: with 2,000 nuclear warheads, this arsenal outranked those of China, France or the United Kingdom.

In January 1994 Ukraine, Russia and the United States signed a Trilateral Agreement, confirming Ukraine's commitment to return the nuclear warheads to Russia in exchange for power reactor fuel from Russia and security guarantees from the United States. Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn succeeded in getting the Congress to approve legislation to give Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia support for reducing the nuclear and other dangerous weapons on their territories. This support extended beyond removing the missiles and dismantling the silos. The United States also helped build housing for the military personnel and their families who no longer had to guard and launch these missiles.

Then U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry was directly involved in the transformation of the silos around Pervomaysk over a period of three years... Read more »

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