Carnegie Endowment Events

The Nuclear Security Summit has made little progress on preventing the production of fissile material that has no plausible use. One way forward would be to establish a norm that such production should be consistent with reasonable civilian needs. Carnegie’s James M. Acton, Ariel Levite, and Togzhan Kassenova explore the potential value of this norm and discuss whether progress is possible. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs, moderates.