Summary of Current Nuclear Projects

The following list was compiled by Academy staff based on publicly available information. Please direct comments to: scienceandsecurity@amacad.org

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  Global Nuclear Future Initiative on security implications of nuclear energy growth.
• Arms Control Association
  Publishes Arms Control Today, resources on website, advocacy.
• Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Focus on nonproliferation, biosecurity, South Asia. Hosts visiting scholars and publishes research. Participates in the U.S. Air Force National Defense Fellows program.
• British-American Security Information Council
  Focuses on transatlantic security and arms control issues.
• Brookings Institution
  Resources on website, weekly email bulletin, publishes books and articles. Several resident scholars.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Hosts annual International Nonproliferation Conference. Publishes twice-weekly email bulletin and maintains website. Several resident scholars.
• Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
  Originally sister organization of Council for a Livable World. Blogs, Youtube and podcasts on current issues.
• Center for Defense Information
  Provides a compendium of news sources on its website. Special expertise on the Reliable Replacement Warhead.
• Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
  Research on the future of the NPT regime, scholarship and policy work on intelligence, advising policy-makers.
• Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
  Nuclear Past, Present and Future Project publishes working papers. Affiliated Program on International Policy Attitudes conducts opinion research.
• Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia
  Focus on export controls and nonproliferation.
• Center for a New American Security
  Project on Iran hosts discussions on alternative strategies for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program. Also has energy security project.
• Center on International Cooperation at New York University
  Analyzes how the international system handles threats posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and develops recommendations for strengthening those efforts.
• Center for Strategic and International Studies: International Security Program
  Restoring the International Nonproliferation Consensus Project (three year study). Proliferation Prevention Forum provides briefings to Congresspersons and their staffs.
• Council on Foreign Relations
  Analysis on current issues including proliferation hot spots. Email bulletin.
• East-West Institute
  Has recently convened a series of meetings between teams of US and Russian scientists to examine Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
• Federation of American Scientists: The Nuclear Information Project
  Provides the public with information and analysis based on technical research.
• Global Security Institute
  Founded by Senator Alan Cranston. Focused on a Nuclear Weapons Convention. Has four programs: the Bipartisan Security Group, Disarmament & Peace Education, Middle Powers Initiative and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
• Institute for Science and International Security
  Technical assessments of proliferant state efforts to get nuclear weapons.
• Institute of Nuclear Materials Management
  Documents best practices in risk management, physical protection and materials control.
• International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University
  Hosts fellows and several resident scholars. Publishes International Security.
• Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard University
  Current research focuses on reducing the risk of nuclear and radiological terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation, improving the safety and security of nuclear energy.
• MIT: Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
  Methods for the design, operation and regulation of current and advanced nuclear reactors and fuel cycles.
• MIT: Science Technology and Global Security Working Group
  Technical analyses, including multinational enrichment, nuclear fuel cycle, techinical issues underlying nuclear disarmament and proliferation.
• Monterey Institute of International Studies: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  Graduate education and research on nonproliferation issues. Publishes Nonproliferation Review and online inventory of treaties and agreements.
• National Resources Defense Council: Nuclear Energy, Waste, & Weapons
  Conducts research on nuclear weapons, waste and energy. Funded mainly by membership.
• National Security Archive, George Washington University
  Nuclear Documentation Project publishes electronic briefing books with U.S. government documents.
• Nautilus Institute
  Focus on U.S. policy in the Far East.
• New America Foundation: American Strategy Program
  Nuclear Strategy & Nonproliferation Initiative aims to provide nuclear guidance, crafted by a ten-person bipartisan steering committee, to the new administration.
• New America Foundation: Geopolitics of Energy
  Studies energy security as a foreign policy issue.
• Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
  Generates technical and political analysis, with a focus on Pakistan, Russia, and nuclear energy for electricity.
• Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
  Turn the Tide campaign online works to mobilize U.S. citizens and influence government policy.
• Nuclear Energy Institute
  Policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry.
• Nuclear Security Project
  Focus on reducing nuclear dangers and ultimately abolishing nuclear weapons.
• Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute, Texas A&M University
  Works with national lab and other partners to develop technological solutions to nuclear security problems. Conducts research, educates students, hosts seminars and workshops and provides direct support to DOE programs.
• Nuclear Threat Initiative
  Goal is to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Currently Secretariat for the Nuclear Security Project led by Kissinger, Nunn, Perry and Shultz. Publishes Global Security Newswire.
• Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security
  Established by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Studies ways to reduce weapons, stockpiles and production capabilities, and to foster multilateral public-private cooperation.
• Princeton Environmental Institute
  Research activities focus on identifying technologies and technology strategies and policies that could facilitate solutions for the long term of major energy-related societal problems, including global climate change, urban air pollution, energy-import dependence, the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, and poverty in developing countries.
• Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
  Research on developing the technical bases for new nuclear arms control and nonproliferation initiatives.
• Sam Nunn School, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Focus on nuclear fuel cycle assurances and verification, strengthening the NPT, and North Korea
• Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University
  Energy Technology Innovation Policy focuses on cleaner energy, including nuclear energy.
• Stimson (Henry L.) Center
  Studies nuclear weapons and nonproliferation; regional focus on East and South Asia. Hosts briefing series for Congressional audiences.
• Union of Concerned Scientists
  Advocacy, commissions technical research, provides testimony to Congress and commissions, on both nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
• Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems, University of Wisconsin
  Technical research on nuclear systems engineering issues, including Generation IV reactors.
• Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
  Research and advocacy; focus on export controls.