The Center promotes best practices in nuclear security through outreach and training. To keep up the momentum generated at the fall 2005 NATO Advanced Research Workshop, our analysts have established an international, multidisciplinary Core Group of experts. CITS plans to use the Core Group to help convince lawmakers and policymakers in various countries to approve the July 2005 amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, which among other things would elevate security culture to the status of a fundamental principle of physical protection. CITS also intends to conduct pilot training on nuclear security in several countries, drawing on talent from the Core Group.
The Center's WMD Security Policy Program conducts policy research, training, and outreach aimed at improving the security of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological materials that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction. The program's objective is to strengthen the international standards that pertain to these deadly materials and to persuade governments and international institutions to work together to control them.
