Secretary
Christine E. Wormuth,
a defense and national
security leader who
recently served as
Secretary of the Army,
joined NTI as its new
President and Chief
Executive Officer on
Monday.
A national security
leader with more than
30 years of experience
in defense policy,
strategic planning,
and international
security, Wormuth
brings an extensive
record of leadership
and service. “NTI’s
mission to reduce
global nuclear,
biological, and
emerging technology
threats is more vital
than ever,” said
Wormuth. “I’m excited
to lead this
exceptional team as it
builds on NTI’s legacy
and helps shape a
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In a new post for NTI’s Risky Business
blog, NTI
Senior Director Ross
Matzkin-Bridger
writes that nuclear
fuel reprocessing is
“a technology that
has failed every
promise it has
made.” He writes
that each attempt to
revive reprocessing
ends the same way –
“billions of dollars
down the drain,
technical failures
abound, and security
risks increase. At a
time when the world
needs clean energy
fast, reprocessing
would be no more
than a costly
distraction.” His
blog post was highlighted in the Exchange Monitor, and
Matzkin-Bridger also
spoke with South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency about the challenges.
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NTI | bio is excited to announce Shreyash Borkar,
Sriram Kumar and
Kaitlyn Connors as
the winners of the
2025 Next Generation
for Biosecurity
Competition! This
year’s challenge
called for
innovative papers on
how to define
“biological weapons”
in today’s ever
evolving biothreat
landscape. In their
winning paper, the
authors argue that
the Biological
Weapons Convention
must evolve to
address emerging
threats that target
not only living
organisms, but also
critical
infrastructure and
digital systems and
propose policy
recommendations to
close oversight
gaps. Learn more
about the
competition and read
the full paper
here.
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Isabelle Williams serves as a senior director at
NTI, where she leads
and supports
projects across the
organization,
including
understanding
nuclear effects and
advancing the vision
of a nuclear
weapons-free world.
In an interview for
Risky Business
with NTI intern Siri
Beck-Friis, Williams
shares insight into
her work,
background, and
hobbies. “Things
might be challenging
right now, but given
the consequences of
nuclear war, it’s
important to explore
alternative paths to
the one we’re
currently on,” she
told Beck-Friis.
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- Dimitri Kusnezov,
vice president of NTI’s FutureSafe program
and former chief scientist for the
National Nuclear Security Administration,
breaks down why explosive nuclear testing
is unnecessary and how the U.S. ensures
proper stewardship of its nuclear
stockpile in a new post for NTI’s Risky
Business blog.
- NTI Co-Chair Ernest
J. Moniz spoke with Christiane Amanpour
for the Ex-Files
Podcast on topics ranging
from nuclear testing and AI to his
proposed regional consortium on nuclear
energy.
- The Global
Dispatches Podcast hosted Jaime
Yassif, the vice president for NTI’s
Global Biological Policy and Program. The
conversation centered on the Biological
Weapons Convention, the first global
treaty to prohibit a specific type of
weapon of war.
- Newsweek reported on a new
Russian missile and cited information from
the NTI website.
- In an article about
A House of Dynamite and U.S.
missile defense, Space News mentioned NTI
Co-Founder Sam Nunn’s proposal for an
Accidental Launch Protection System in the
1980s.
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