Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2014

Advancing Nuclear Security: Evaluating Progress and Setting New Goals

Matthew Bunn, Martin B. Malin, Nickolas Roth, William H. Tobey

April 2014

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Abstract

The threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism has not disappeared, though the world has made important progress in reducing these risks. Urgent new steps are needed to build effective and lasting nuclear security worldwide. The nuclear security effort must now shift from short-term improvements toward a focus on a continued search for excellence, lasting as long as terrorist groups bent on mass destruction and the nuclear and radiological materials they might use both continue to exist.