2057) Nuclear Security - Stanley Foundation

Next Generation Nuclear Security
Stanley Foundation
Available on Monday, April 12

Watch the live Webcast

The Fissile Materials Working Group (FMWG), of which the Stanley Foundation is a member, is offering a live Webcast of its event Next Generation Nuclear Security: Meeting the Global Challenge on Monday, April 12. The broadcast will begin at 8:45 a.m. (EST). Edited, archived video of the event will also be posted 24 hours after its conclusion.

Additionally, the FMWG has a number of valuable resources available in advance of the unprecedented, heads of state Nuclear Security Summit taking place in Washington, DC, on April 12-13.

• A C-SPAN broadcast of a pre-summit press briefing by four members of the FMWG.
• A congressional briefing by Kenneth Luongo, president of Partnership for Global Security, on funding the objective of securing all vulnerable nuclear materials in four years.
• A congressional briefing by Matthew Bunn, associate professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, on securing nuclear stockpiles in four years.
• “Making the Nuclear Security Summit Matter: An Agenda for Action”—an article by Kenneth Luongo.
• The FMWG’s letter to Congress regarding adequate nuclear security funding in FY2011.
• A new FMWG column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• The FMWG’s three-part blog series on Nuclear Security Summit issues on the Partnership for a Secure America’s “Across the Aisle” blog.
• Radioactive Challenge, an original video report by the Stanley Foundation about the challenge of securing fissile materials worldwide.

More information is available at www.fmwg.org.

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