NUCLEAR SECURITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ANSWERS

Abstract

The ways of ensuring the security of nuclear materials and countering nuclear terrorism were the key issues of the two most significant nonproliferation events in 2010 – the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and the NPT Review Conference in New York. What is the link between nuclear nonproliferation and security of nuclear materials? How different are the Russian and U.S. approaches to these problems? And how could contemporary Russia adopt the international experience? These and many other questions were addressed by the participants of the round table discussion: Professor, Head of the 12th Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense Rear Admiral Sergey Pertsev; Deputy Head of the Department of Security and Disarmament of the Russian Foreign Ministry Oleg Rozhkov; Deputy Director of the Moscow Office of the U.S. Department of Energy Jon Shearer; Deputy Head of the International Cooperation Department of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexey Ubeev; Director of ANO Aspekt-Conversion (Center for Cooperation in Conversion for Decommissioning of Weapons and Military Hardware) Evgeny Maslin; Consultant of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (Moscow Office) Dmitry Kovchegin; Head of the Laboratory in the Nuclear Safety Institute (IBRAE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Antipov; Senior Vice President of PIR Center Lt. Gen. (rtd) Gennady Evstafiev; PIR Center President Vladimir Orlov.