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1 Page O. Stoutland, The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index 1 (2012)

handle is hein.unl/ntinucl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: kkl! S:ii! The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index Page 0. Stoutland Nuclear Threat Initiative ABSTRACT The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Nuclear Materials Security Index is a first-of- its-kind public benchmark assessment of nuclear materials security conditions on a country-by-country basis. The NTI Index, prepared with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and guided by an international panel of nuclear security experts, was created to catalyse an international discussion about nuclear materials security priorities, and to encourage governments to provide assurances and take actions to strengthen nuclear materials security. The project draws on NTI's nuclear expertise, the EIU's experience in constructing indices, and the reach of the EIU's global network of 900 analysts and contributors. The NTI Index can be accessed online at <www.ntiindex.org>. INTRODUCTION The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index is a unique public baseline assessment of the status of security conditions of weapons-usable nuclear materials around the world.' The NTI Index assesses and scores each state across a broad range of publicly available indicators of a state's nuclear materials security practices and conditions, and is a first-of-its-kind analysis because of its approach and scope. The Index is not a facility-by-facility review of guns, guards and gates or an on-the-ground review of materials control and accounting practices. Information about the security measures in place at specific facilities is understandably sensitive and should remain so. Such an assessment is needed to measure risk, track progress and hold states accountable. It is also important for building international confidence in the security of the world's most dangerous materials. To that end, the Index should be considered more than simply a scorecard: it provides a foundation for the urgent and ongoing work of strengthening security. It also offers a path forward through recommendations for individual states and for the international community to keep the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb out of dangerous hands. Weapons-usable nuclear materials today are stored at hundreds of sites in approximately 30 countries around the globe. Many of those sites are well secured. Some are not, leaving weapons-usable nuclear materials vulnerable to 1 This inaugural NTI Index has greatly benefited from the rich analytic work provided by Matthew Bunn in his Securing the Bomb series, funded by NTI. The work of the International Panel on Fissile Materials has also been an indispensable resource. J

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