‘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
November 24, 2011. The new issue of Nuclear Club journal (¹3(10), 2011) was published. The main topics are:
More info- How Much Will It Cost Japan To Abandon Nuclear Energy?
- The Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul: What to Expect?
- New Kind of Information Weapons Tested on Iranian Nuclear Infrastructure?
- Prospects for Nuclear Energy Development in Southeast Asia after Fukushima.
- The Chernobyl NPP: The Time for Practical Results Has Come.
- Prospects for the Use of Naval Reactors on Surface Ships.
- US Special Operations against the Iranian Nuclear Program under President Obama.
'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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