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Takeaways from Obama’s last Nuclear Security Summit

The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) concluded on April 1—four days shy of the 7th anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Prague speech, in which, among other things, he announced a “new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” The 2016 NSS was the fourth and final summit held in its current format.Obama expressed the hope that the 2016 summit would leave behind an enduring international nuclear architecture for securing highly enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium.

Leaders and representatives of 52 countries and four regional and international organizations attended the summit. It produced gift baskets (political commitments signed by groups of participants), five action plans for existing international bodies, new national and multilateral commitments, a contact group to oversee implementation of commitments made, and a final communiqué.

A total of 13 gift baskets were presented during the summit, though many of them built upon previous commitments. Three were particularly notable:………

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/04/04-post-nuclear-security-summit-benchorin-pifer

April 6, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general