International Safeguards Challenges

At the 54th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear MaterialsManagement (INMM) in Palm Desert, California, USA, inJuly 2013, an informative session addressed the topic InternationalSafeguards Challenges. The session included presentationsfollowed by a panel discussion by an illustrious set of current andformer government and International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) officials: Olli Heinonen, former deputy director generalfor safeguards at the IAEA; John Carlson, former head of the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (ASNO); J. Stephen Adams of the U.S. Department of State; and Susan Burk,formerly of the U.S. Department of State. James Larrimore, International Safeguards Technical Division, and Corey Hinderstein,Nonproliferation and Arms Control Division, Nuclear Threat Initiative, moderated the session.