U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO-12-512T, Nuclear Nonproliferation: Further Actions Needed by U.S. Agencies to Secure Vulnerable Nuclear and Radiological Materials. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2012. http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/589345.pdf (accessed 18 April 2012).

This testimony discusses the U.S. strategy to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years, U.S. agencies’ ability to track and evaluate the security of U.S. nuclear materials transferred to foreign countries, challenges coordinating federal nuclear nonproliferation efforts, and preliminary observations regarding GAO’s ongoing work on federal efforts to secure radiological sources in U.S. hospitals and medical facilities.