NEWS
the growing wmd threat
General (ret.) Eugene Habiger and CITS Director Gary K. Bertsch examine the growing WMD threat and NATIONAL security issues facing the incoming Obama administration in the School of Public International Affairs quarterly journal, The Citizen. more →
XC News
Drs. Igor Khripunov and Dmitriy Nikonov publish on Russia's closed nuclear cities
“The rebirthrebirth of Russia’s closed cities” by CITS Senior Research Associate Dmitriy Nikonov and CITS Associate Director Igor Khripunov appears in the October 2008 issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The article focuses on the retooling of the bureaucracies controlling Russia’s closed cities and the efforts to support civilian nuclear and high-tech industries within them. The article discusses the opening up of these cities to economic growth and provides recommendations on their gradual deregulation depending on the role of nuclear weapons in the new Russia’s national defense strategy. more →
News 2
CITS authors contribute to UGA press series on nonproliferaiton
In this volume, experts in nonproliferation studies examine challenges faced by the international community and propose directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking. Thefirst group of essays outlines the primary threats posed by WMD proliferation and terrorism. MORE → In the recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Togzhan Kassenova examines why the United States, Britain, and France have been cool to an effort by several Central Asian countries to ban the presence of nuclear weapons in their region.
EVENTS & Collaborations
CITS to celebrate 20th anniversary
CITS and the Export Compliance Training Institute (ECTI) will co-sponsor two seminars in Beijing and Shanghai 22-27 February 2009
Korea Institute for Defense Analyses Scholar at CITS
Dr. Nam Sung Han, Senior Research 
Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses KIDA. (KIDA), will spend a year at CITS conducting research on the arms trade, nonproliferation and strategic trade controls.
