A culture of security: Focus for the next Nuclear Security Summit? Article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It would not take much highly enriched uranium to kill hundreds of thousands of people: as little as what could fit in a five-pound bag of sugar. That it has not happened so far does not mean it may never happen, especially when one considers that there are more than 2,000 metric tons of dangerous nuclear materials in hundreds of sites scattered across the globe. And that there have been more than 2,300 cases of theft or loss of nuclear or radioactive material since the early 1990s.

To read the entire article by Igor Khripunov in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, click here.