‘THE ARAB SPRING': IMPACT ON THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REGIME
January 27, 2012. Moscow, Russia. Mass protests in the Middle East and North Africa, often branded as 'people's revolutions', have been described by analysts as a fundamental geopolitical shift in the region or as a triumph of democracy; the energy aspect is also at the focus of their attention. This article aims to address a clear shortage of analysis of another important repercussion of the 'Arab Spring': namely, its consequences for the nuclear nonproliferation regime.More info
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News of the Nuclear Club Journal
March 29, 2011. The new issue of Nuclear Club journal ¹5-6 (11-12) was published. The main topics are:
More info- China's Export Potential On the Global Market for Nuclear Technologies.
- Russian-EU Nuclear Cooperation: Priorities for the Future.
- Excess Plutonium Disposition: Problems and Outlook.
- Export Control in a Changing World: The Industry's Role.
- ‘The Arab Spring': The Impact on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime.
- What Can We Expect from North Korea after Kim Jong-il?
- On the Outlook for the Entry into Force of the CTBT.
'President Yeltsin Stopped Me From Finishing the Cuban Nuclear Power Plant'
Russia's first nuclear energy minister, Viktor Mikhailov, recalls in an interview Moscow's attempts to conquer new nuclear markets in the early 1990s. He also sheds some light on the decision to sell Russian centrifuge enrichment equipment to China.
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Stuxnet: New Form of Cyber Warfare was Tested on Iranian Nuclear Infrastructure? (In Russian)
In June 2010 thousands of computers in India, Indonesia, Iran, China, Pakistan, USA, Taiwan and Ecuador were attacked by worm ‘Stuxnet', a new form of cyber malware that can damage real objects. The worldwide attention was riveted to this virus after it struck the Iranian nuclear facilities: Bushehr NPP and enrichment plant in Natanz.
Russia, Australia and New Horizons of Nuclear Cooperation
(In Russian)
On November 11, 2010 Russia's peaceful nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Australia, which holds about a quarter of the world's known uranium reserves, entered into force. One of the key authors of the agreement looks back at the history of the agreement, details the requirements of Australian law to such international agreements, and highlights the prospects for bilateral nuclear cooperation.
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