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Nuclear Materials

We are working to prevent nuclear terrorism by keeping nuclear weapon-usable materials out of the hands of terrorists; curtailing the production, spread and use of fissile materials; and reducing global inventories of these materials.

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Krasnoyarsk, Russia

October 20, 2008
9,980.00

Obninsk, Russia

June 22, 2008
30,000.00

Washington, DC

March 2, 2009
75,000.00

Edith B. Wilkie Grant


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Kennette Benedict

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

With the announcement on January 17, 2007 by Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that the hands of the famous “doomsday clock” had been moved two minutes closer to midnight, people everywhere understood the gravity facing the world in a way that no speech, no report, indeed, that no words, could convey.  Over a thousand news outlets worldwide covered the event, quoting  Benedict, who said, "this c Read more »

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