New report: “Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline?”

In March 2016, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, published a new report entitled Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline? as part of the Centre’s Managing the Atom Project.

In this new report, the authors Matthew Bunn, Martin Malin, Nickolas Roth, and William Tobey provide a global reality check on nuclear security. They note that effective and sustainable nuclear security capable of addressing plausible threats is the single most effective chokepoint preventing terrorists from acquiring a nuclear weapon. In recent years, significant progress has been made securing vulnerable nuclear weapons-usable material—reducing the number of countries with these materials by more than half, securing scores of sites around the world, and much more. But the work is not done.

For more information or to download the report, please visit the Belfer Centre’s website here.