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Temporary Page on Nuclear Terrorism
"Bin Laden and the Bomb,"by David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002. (*.pdf document that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Al Qaeda Nuclear and Conventional Explosive Documents: CNN - ISIS Collaboration
"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Complex," by David Albright (Paper commissioned and sponsored by the Stanley Foundation for the 42nd Strategy for Peace Conference, Strategies for Regional Security (South Asia Working Group), October 25-27, 2001, Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, Virginia.)
"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal: Priciples for Assistance," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
"South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Storage Vault," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
"The First Casualty of the War on Terrorism must not be Pakistan: Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons must not fall into Terrorists' Hands," ISIS Press Release, September 18, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader) [*.html version]
"Nuclear Terrorism: The Unthinkable Nightmare," ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader) [*.html version]
"The Nuclear Terrorist Threat," by Kevin O'Neill, August, 1997 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
"South Africa's Nuclear Weaponization Efforts: Success on a Small Scale", by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version](requires Adobe Acrobat reader)

Articles of General Interest

"Jury Rigged, But Working" By David Albright and Kevin O'Neill. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1995.
"A Proliferation Primer" By David Albright. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1993.

Civil Plutonium

New --> ISIS Report: Global Fissile Material Inventories

Index of ISIS Civil Plutonium Assessments, including:
- Plutonium Watch--Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories by David Albright and Kimberly Kramer
- Separated Civil Plutonium Inventories: Current Status and Future Directions, by David Albright
- Proceedings from the March 2000 ISIS Conference on "Civil Separated Plutonium Stocks--Planning for the Future"

Addressing Excess Stocks of Civil and Military Plutonium Proceedings of the December 10, 2001 ISIS Conference

Export Controls

Index of ISIS information about nuclear export controls

Regional Safeguards

Transcript: "Building Nuclear Confidence on the Korean Peninsula
Proceedings of the July 23-24, 2001 Workshop"
Sponsored by the Technology Center for Nuclear Control and the Korea Institute for National Unification
The Latin American Nuclear Rapprochement: Lessons for the Middle East?

The NPT Strengthened Review Process

Documents prepared for the 1998 Prepcom

Fissile Material Inventories, Production Cutoff and Controls

New --> ISIS Report: Global Fissile Material Inventories
"Stockpiles Still Growing" By David Albright and Kimberly Kramer. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2004
Press release announcing the publication of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies
The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
Fissile Material Controls Scorecard 2000 (an updated scorecard published in Challenges in 1999)
1999 Fissile Material Controls Scorecard (prepared for publication in The Challenges of Fissile Material Control)

Nuclear Secrecy and Transparency

Transparency and Secrecy at Rocky Flats
The September, 1999, Tokaimura accident:
- Chronology of events and news reports related to the accident
- ISIS analysis of the accident
- Images of the JCO facility
- Risk comparisions report placing the risk of radiation exposure into an everyday context

Institute for Science and International Security Press

Country Studies

Special Topics in Nonproliferation