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Keeping Atoms for Peace from Being Overshadowed by Secrecy

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10/28/20

Sharon Squassoni of George Washington University, formerly with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Congressional Research Service, briefed the group on the increasing opacity of U.S. nuclear export licensing, intangible nuclear technology transfers, nuclear cooperative agreement negotiations, and nuclear proliferation intelligence.

The poster child for these problems is Saudi Arabia, but there are other cases as well. The question for the working group will be what can and should our government do to reverse these trends?

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Keeping Atoms for Peace from Being Overshadowed by Secrecy

*“Un Secret D’en Haut” (“A Secret on High”) by Hippolytus Alexandre Julien Moulin (French 1832-84) depicting Mercury whispering a secret to the head of Pan knowing Pan will never repeat it.

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