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WHAT’S NEW:
Journal Article on Plutonium Fuel (free download)
March 19, 2021
NPPP Requests NRC Hearing on Proposed Bomb-Grade Export to France
March 5, 2021
Risks of Plutonium Fuel in Proposed U.S. Government Reactor
February 25, 2021
Dangers of HEU in Space – Grad Student Website
July 29, 2020
Op-Ed: Bay Area’s Nuclear Time Bomb
July 2, 2020
Experts Urge Congress to Continue Navy LEU Fuel R&D
June 30, 2020
Trump’s Plan to Resume Bomb-Grade Uranium Production
June 15, 2020
Health, Nuclear Experts Urge End of Bomb-Grade Exports for Medical Isotopes
December 18, 2019
Nuclear Energy in Space: Nonproliferation Risks and Solutions
October 17, 2019 – Archer Center, Washington, DC
Op-Ed: Rookie Error on Naval Fuel Risks Nuclear Terrorism
June 27, 2019
New NPPP book published!
Plutonium for Energy? Explaining the Global Decline of MOX
October 22, 2018
Op-Ed: Small Nuke, Big Mistake
March 8, 2019
Debating Low-yield Nukes with StratCom
November 12, 2018
Arms Control Today: “Japan’s Misguided Plutonium Policy”
October 21, 2018
How Not to Reduce Japan’s Plutonium Stockpile
July 13, 2018
NPPP Launches MOX Site: Pu4Energy.com
June 11, 2018
Briefing Congress on Navy Nuclear Fuel Risks
April 18, 2018
Defense One: Navy Reactors Don’t Need HEU
March 13, 2018
NPPP Tells NASA to Avoid HEU in Space Reactors
February 27, 2018
Nuclear War in Austin?
February 13, 2018
Please Help the Leventhal Fellowship!
December 24, 2017
ARTE Documentary: The “Big Lie” of Nuclear Security
December 24, 2017
Kuperman Paper on Naval Reactors at RERTR
November 15, 2017
Alan Kuperman with RERTR founding director, Dr. Armando Travelli
NRC Halves Bomb-Grade Export After NPPP-led Protest
August 22, 2017
Baltimore Sun: Why is NASA testing bomb-grade materials for its Mars mission?
August 21, 2017
Op-ed: Japan’s Intentional Plutonium Surplus
August 17, 2017
Remembering Paul Leventhal:
Nuclear Lessons for a New Administration
April 13, 2017
Kuperman Debates Nuclear Modernization
March 21, 2017
Leventhal Fellowship – Donor Appeal
March 19, 2017
NRC Approves Biggest Bomb-Grade Export in 5 Years
February 21, 2017
NRC Abandons Plan to Quash Disclosure of Bomb-Grade Exports
December 8, 2016
30 Nuclear Experts Accuse U.S. of Violating Nonproliferation Agreement
September 7, 2016
NPPP book — now in paperback!
Nuclear Terrorism and Global Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium
NPPP to NRC: Belgium Violates 2012 Nonproliferation Pledge
August 18, 2016
NPPP Petition Urges NRC to Reject Bomb-Grade Export to Belgium
August 4, 2016
Déjà vu?
* 2001 Petition Spurs Belgium to Suspend Export Request
* Facing 2015 Petition, Belgium Withdraws HEU Application
White House Embraces NPPP Call to Replace Bomb-Grade Naval Fuel
April 1, 2016
WMD Book Includes NPPP Chapter on History of Bomb-Grade Fuel Reduction
March 30, 2016
Huffington Post: “A Bad Idea for Nuclear Security”
March 29, 2016
NYT Op-Ed: “Obama’s Bomb-Grade Mistake”
March 26, 2016
Fox News: US Nuclear Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorism
March 25, 2016
Facing NPPP Petition, Belgium Drops Request for Bomb-Grade Uranium
March 23, 2016
* See also, Physics Today
Kuperman at Indiana U. (video): “Iran Nuclear Agreement: Debunking Obama’s Claims”
November 5, 2015
Williams College Debate: “Iranian Nuclear Deal: Danger or Opportunity?”
October 29, 2015
Fedder Lecture at U. of Missouri-St. Louis: “Confronting Iran’s Nuclear Program”
September 16, 2015
CBS Radio Interview on Iran Deal
September 9, 2015
The Hill Op-Ed: “Appeasing Iran?”
August 25, 2015
Kuperman Speaks at National Press Club on Iran Nuclear Deal, Leventhal Legacy
August 4, 2015
NY Daily News Op-Ed: “The Iran Deal is Built on a Lie”
July 19, 2015
NPPP rebuts Harvard on Iran’s “Breakout Time”
July 6, 2015
* View on Harvard’s “Iran Matters” website
Press Release: “More Bomb-Grade Uranium to Canada?”
June 29, 2015
NY Times Op-Ed: “The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaw”
June 23, 2015
* Interview on the “Breakout Timeline”
Briefing in U.S. Senate: “Phasing Out Highly Enriched Uranium Fuel in Naval Propulsion”
March 20, 2015
* NPPP Working Paper #3
* Executive Summary
Interventions Seek NRC Hearings on Planned Export of 10 Bombs’ Worth of HEU
March 18, 2015
* Petition on Export to Belgium
* Petition on Export to France
Jerusalem Post Op-Ed: Iran nuclear deal a “fool’s bargain”?
March 3, 2015
IDC-Herzliya Publishes NPPP Analysis: Iran Negotiations Unlikely to Stem Proliferation
November 24, 2014
NPPP Safeguards Analysis Published in NPEC Book on Loose Nukes
November 19, 2014
NYT Op-Ed: Highly Enriched Danger
March 22, 2014
NPPP Report: IAEA Cannot Safeguard Nuclear Facilities against Theft, Diversion of Bomb-Grade Material
March 18, 2014
NPPP Reveals: Nuclear Summit Host Violates Own Security Pledge
March 13, 2014
CNN Op-ed: “How U.S. nuclear reactors are vulnerable to terrorists”
August 26, 2013
NPPP Reiterates DOD Relationship to Report
August 21, 2013
NPPP Releases Major New Study: U.S. Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack
August 15, 2013
* New Report: Working Paper #1
* Press Release
* Press Conference: Streaming Audio Replay
* NBC-TV Today Show
* NBC-TV Nightly News
* FOX-TV
* YNN-TV
* Business Week
NPPP Highlights Forthcoming Study: U.S. Nuclear Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorist Attack
Institute of Nuclear Materials Management — Annual Meeting
July 17, 2013
State Department Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security speaks at LBJ
Hosted by NPPP’s Alan J. Kuperman
March 8, 2013 [Watch the video]
Kuperman pens LA Times article on risk of nuclear Iran
April 1, 2012
LBJ School Colloquium: Terrorist Hiroshima?
March 29, 12:15-1:30pm, SRH 3.219/216
Alan J. Kuperman
Fox 7 TV: Kuperman on Iran’s Nuclear Program
March 8, 2012
Nuclear Risk Analysis Seminar — LBJ School
February 22, 2012
John Devin Biniaz, Office of the Secretary of Defense
2nd International Symposium on HEU Minimization
January 24, 2012

January 18, 2012