Building Global Nuclear Security Architecture

Session: Grand Ballroom 3
Date/Time: February 20, 2013 / 09:00-10:15

Moderator: Shin Chang-Hoon, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Speakers:

John Bernhard Former Danish Ambassador to the IAEA and CTBTO
Kenneth Brill, Independent Consultant and former U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA
Mona Dreicer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jun Bong-geun Korea National Diplomatic Academy

Rapporteur: Shawn Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Press Release Brief

1. We require a global nuclear security architecture because the terrorist / nuclear security threat is a global threat; there is a mismatch between the scale of the problem and the level of effort dedicated to it on a global level.

2. Traditional concepts such as national sovereignty challenge our ability to implement a binding global nuclear security framework.

3. The current approach to nuclear security is a stopgap approach; we need a comprehensive, cooperative approach as a kind of “global governance.”

4. Challenges to any global nuclear security architecture include sustainability, communication, enforcement, and defining success.