Int’l Community Needs to Do More To Strengthen Nuclear Verification, NTI Expert Says

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Stockpiled nuclear material around the world continues to be a nuclear security threat, and the internationalrncommunity should not wait on the U.S. and Russia to strengthen nuclear material verification measures, CoreyrnHinderstein of the Nuclear Threat Initiative told attendees of a State Department-hosted briefing at U.N.rnheadquarters this week. While the U.S. and Russia have more expertise on nuclear material verification than anyrnother nations—both countries house 90 percent of the world’s nuclear stockpile—Hinderstein, vice president ofrnNTI’s Material Security and Minimization division, cited after the event the opportunity for other members of thernverification community to incorporate modern advancements in technologies such as IT and satellite imagery, andrncalled on nations to build a greater global capacity for verification systems. “If we don’t do it, then we arernhandicapping ourselves,” she told NS&D Monitor. “We are mimicking ourselves. It shouldn’t be just up to the U.S.rnand Russia to determine or to develop the next set of tools, not just because we want others to be involved, butrnalso because there’s great expertise and creativity and contribution that could be made from the rest of the world.”