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NPWG Virtual Keynote Event March 28th 2022 @ 5:40p Pacific: Dr Herbert Lin on Cyber Threats and Nuclear WeaponsThe technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear operations will lead to levels of nuclear risk hardly imagined before. Join the Nuclear Policy Working Group at Berkeley for a lecture by Dr. Herbert Lin on March 28th 2022 at 5:40p Pacific on his recent book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, where Dr. Lin breaks down the cyber risks to the U.S. nuclear enterprise. Attendance is open to all, but requires registration (click the link or copy and paste bit.ly/NPWG-keynote-RSVP in your browser).  More information on the event, and on the Nuclear Policy Working Group, is available at our website.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and Division of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology of the American Chemical Society (ACS) are sponsoring two INTENSIVE six-week Summer Schools in Nuclear & Radiochemistry for undergraduates. Funding is provided by the US Department of Energy.

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in support of the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s Next Generation Safeguards Initiative, are pleased to announce a one-week, tuition-free, intensive course on international nuclear safeguards policy and up to five paid summer internships.

The International Nuclear Safeguards Policy and Information Analysis Course will be held in Monterey from June 3- 7, 2019. The course is tuition free and open to all nationalities. Some stipends will be available to non-local applicants to partially cover transportation and housing costs. Course applicants who are U.S. citizens may also apply for a ten-week paid internship (June 10 to August 16, 2019) at LLNL in Livermore, CA. The internships pay $6,000 total which is paid in two installments of $3,000. Successful completion of the course is a prerequisite for the internships.

Application forms and more information are available at http://www.nonproliferation.org/education/courses/international-nuclear-safeguards/