Remarks by Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General at The Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

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I am very pleased that the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation is hosting this event on the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.

This is the most important area of unfinished business in nuclear security. The Amendment was adopted more than 10 years ago, but it has still not entered into force because not enough countries have adhered to it.

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Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security delivers remarks to the Nuclear Security Working Group

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Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security delivers remarks to the Nuclear Security Working Group

Thank you, Steve. I am so pleased to be here today. Thanks also to the Congressional Nuclear Security Working Group Co-Chairs Jeff Fortenberry and Pete Visclosky for hosting us here on the Hill and to Janne Nolan and Brian Finlay for their work in setting this up. I am glad to see so many people here interested in what we can do to reduce the nuclear threat.

Nuclear security is not always in the headlines, but nuclear terrorism is the greatest threat to our collective security. As you all know, terrorist networks have expressed their desire to use weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. A nuclear weapon in the hands of a terrorist would be a catastrophe for global peace and stability.

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Statement by the Press Secretary on the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit

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Two years ago, in Berlin, the President formally announced his plan to host a fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit in 2016.  The Summit will be held March 31-April 1, 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

As the President stated in his speech in Prague in 2009, nuclear terrorism is the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. He announced an international effort to secure vulnerable nuclear materials, break up black markets, and detect and intercept illicitly trafficked materials. The first Nuclear Security Summit was held in Washington, D.C. in 2010, and was followed by additional Summits in Seoul in 2012, and The Hague in 2014.  These Summits achieved tangible improvements in the security of nuclear materials and stronger international institutions that support nuclear security.

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