LLNL-CNS International Safeguards Policy and Information Analysis Summer Course

Lawrence  Livermore  National  Laboratory  (LLNL)  and  the  James  Martin  Center  for   Nonproliferation  Studies  (CNS)  at  the  Monterey  Institute  of  International  Studies   MIIS)  actively  support  U.S.  Department  of  Energy  National  Nuclear  Security   Administration  (NNSA)  Next  Generation  Safeguards  Initiative  efforts  to  recruit  and   train  the  next  generation  of  nuclear  safeguards  experts.    Together,  LLNL  and  CNS  co-­- host  the  International  Safeguards  Policy  and  Information  Analysis  Summer  Course.     The  week-­-long  course  covers  the  historical  evolution  of  the  legal  and  institutional   foundations  of  international  safeguards,  approaches  and  technologies  for  safeguards   implementation,  and  case  studies  of  challenges  to  the  international  safeguards   system.    The  course  also  features  an  exercise  to  simulate  the  International  Atomic   Energy  Agency  (IAEA)  state  evaluation  process,  and,  new  for  the  2010  course,  an   exercise  to  simulate  the  drafting  and  negotiation  of  an  IAEA  Board  of  Governors   resolution.    This  presentation  provides  an  overview  of  the  goals  and  content  of  the  course,   describes  the  lessopast  three  years,  ansafeguards  experts.