2016 Nuclear Security Summit

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The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit{{cite web|title=White House Press Call: Previewing the Nuclear Security Summit|url=http://www.nss2016.org/news/2016/3/30/wh-press-call|accessdate=March 31, 2016}} was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America.{{cite web|title=2016 Nuclear Security Summit|url=http://dc.gov/2016summit|accessdate=March 31, 2016}}

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{{legend|#ff2a00|Host nation (United States)}}

{{legend|#008000|Participating nations}}

{{legend|#00ca00|European Union members represented by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission only (as observer)}}]]

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Notably absent from the summit were leaders or representatives of Russia, North Korea, Iran and Belarus.{{cite news|title=ISIS threat raises stakes for US Nuclear Security Summit|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/isis-threat-raises-stakes-for-us-nuclear-security-summit|accessdate=March 31, 2016|agency=AFP|date=March 30, 2016}} However, a significant contingent of Asian leaders especially from South Asia such as India and Singapore attending the summit was a probable sign of continental concern over terrorist threats alongside vulnerable nuclear facilities.{{cite news|last1=Au Yong|first1=Jeremy|title=Close watch on nuclear security|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/close-watch-on-nuclear-security|accessdate=March 31, 2016|date=March 28, 2016}}

File:Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the President of the United States Barack Obama, 2016.jpg

Various countries, including Kazakhstan and Poland, undertook to reduce their highly enriched uranium stockpiles. Japan agreed to ship additional separated plutonium to the U.S.{{cite news|title=Barack Obama's final attempt to safeguard nuclear stockpiles|url=https://www.economist.com/news/international/21696178-muted-last-hurrah-nobel-peace-prizewinning-president-barack-obamas-final|accessdate=April 2, 2016|work=The Economist|date=April 3, 2016}} Canada pledged $42 million to bolster nuclear security.{{cite news|author1=Matt Kwong|title=Trudeau, Obama tout commitments at close of Nuclear Security Summit|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nuclear-security-summit-barack-obama-closing-remark-1.3517148|accessdate=April 3, 2016|work=CBC News|date=April 2, 2016}} The U.S. disclosed its own inventory of highly enriched uranium has dropped from 741 metric tons in the 1990s to 586 metric tons as of 2013. A strengthened nuclear security agreement, which had languished since 2005, was finally approved, extending safeguards for nuclear materials and requiring criminal penalties for nuclear smuggling.{{cite news|title=World leaders urge action against terrorism at Nuclear Security Summit|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/world-leaders-urge-action-against-terrorism-at-nuclear-security-summit/|accessdate=April 3, 2016|work=PBS NewsHour|date=April 2, 2016|language=en-US}} According to the U.S., since the last summit in 2014, ten nations have removed or disposed of about 450 kilograms of highly enriched uranium; Argentina, Switzerland and Uzbekistan are now free of highly enriched uranium, as is all of Latin America and the Caribbean.{{cite news|title=Obama touts removal of highly enriched uranium|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/01/barack-obama-nuclear-security-summit/82489898/|accessdate=April 3, 2016|work=USA TODAY|date=April 2, 2016}}

The summit participants stated that the 2016 summit would be "the last of this kind".

Three months after the meeting, NPCIL and Westinghouse agreed to conclude contractual arrangements for 6 reactors by June 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-and-india-agree-u-s-company-to-build-six-nuclear-reactors-1465317345|title = U.S. Firm to Build Six Nuclear Reactors in India|newspaper = Wall Street Journal|date = June 7, 2016}}

• Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
• Nuclear disarmament

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