SGP Press Releases

 

SGP Press Releases
 

SGP Welcomes Washington Group International CTR Intern  September 15, 2006 -- The Strengthening the Global Partnership project at CSIS is pleased to welcome Mr. Nikita Perfilyev. Mr. Perfilyev will be at CSIS for a month as the Washington Group International Cooperative Threat Reduction Intern. Mr. Perfilyev is a student in the History Department at Tomsk State University. He completed the PIR Center-Moscow’s Nonproliferation Summer School for Young Specialists from Russia and the CIS in July of this year, jointly organized with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute. Based on his excellent performance during this program and his commitment to the nonproliferation field, Nikita was selected as the first ever intern for this program.

Senator Nunn Presents SGP Report, "Assessing the G8 Global Partnership: From Kananaskis to St. Petersburg" July 13, 2006 -- This report is released in advance of the 2006 G8 Summit under Russia's Presidency. It examines progress to date in implementing the Global Partnership goals set at the 2002 Kananaskis summit. Senator Nunn's Remarks;  Link to the Report

Black Dawn Exercise at NATO Parliamentary Assembly Shows Europe Vulnerable to Nuclear Terrorism May 31, 2005 -- The second nuclear terrorism exercise was undertaken at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Ljubljana, Slovenia. NATO parliamentarians as well as observers from NATO member and associate states were able to 'witness' a terrorist network acquiring highly enriched uranium from civilian research reactors near Europe to construct and subsequently detonate a crude nuclear device.

G8 Summit Preview: Are G8 Leaders Doing Enough to Prevent Nuke, Chem, Bio Terrorism? May 21, 2004 -- Former Senator Sam Nunn and experts from the SGP Project will preview the upcoming G8 Summit by releasing a scorecard on global efforts to prevent nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism at a media roundtable at 10:30 A.M. on Wednesday, May 26, at NTI, 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 7th floor.

Black Dawn Nuclear Terrorism Exercise Shows Europe Is Vulnerable; Participants Develop Action Agenda to Prevent Attack May 4, 2004 -- In an unprecedented exercise involving approximately 55 officials and experts from 15 countries and half a dozen international bodies, leaders saw how terrorists could acquire highly enriched uranium (HEU) from civilian research reactors in or near Europe, make a crude nuclear bomb, and explode the device near a multilateral institution in Brussels.

Report on G8 Partnership Reveals Progress and Challenges in Securing Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
November 19, 2003--An international coalition of 21 security organizations today released a detailed report on the G8's progress in keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists.  "There is a dangerous gap between the pace of progress and the scope of the urgency of the threat.  The $20 billion has only been pledged, not allocated - and it falls far short of what's needed to meet the threat," said Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

International Coalition Seeks Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Threat Reduction
May 28, 2003--An international coalition of 20 security organizations from 16 countries called for more progress in a worldwide effort to stem the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons today in a statement released in Paris.

Preventing Proliferation and Catastrophic Terrorism
January 20, 2003--The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released a report entitled: "Protecting Against the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons," the culmination of a discussion by a coalition of fifteen security organizations worldwide. The report discusses steps to secure, account for and safely dispose of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as related agents, materials and infrastructure in the former U.S.S.R.

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