Report of POPA-CSIS Workshop exploring Nuclear Reductions

European Physical Society

POPA-CSIS Workshop exploring Nuclear Reductions after New START available

By David Lee. Published on 26 July 2013 in:
Information, July 2013, News, American Physical Society, New START, Nuclear Reduction, POPA

Presidents Obama and Medvedev after signing
the nuclear arms reduction treaty in 2010.

In February 2013, the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society [POPA] and the Center for Strategic & International Studies [CSIS] organised a workshop to study the technical and policy challenges associated with reducing the non-strategic nuclear weapons [NSNWs] currently deployed in Europe and Russia, commonly referred to as “tactical nuclear weapons”. The workshop focused on a discussion of policy and technology aspects of a hypothetical agreement between the US and Russia.

A group of approximately 30 policy and technology participants drawn from the US, Europe and Russia, met to analyse issues, political and technical, related to such an agreement.

The report of the meeting is now available on the
American Physical Society website.

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