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Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Arlington, Virginia

Grants

2021 (1 year)
$270,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and policy options to meet them. NPEC also works to cultivate knowledgeable and effective experts in order to enhance the analysis of nuclear policy issues among policymakers and their staff. This is a final, tie-off award in support of general operations to ensure that NPEC has financial backing to seek other sources of funding without sacrificing organizational stability as the Foundation brings the Nuclear Challenges big bet strategy to a close.

2019 (2 years)
$240,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and policy options to meet them. This project support award enables NPEC to develop and disseminate analysis on the strategic challenge of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons to U.S. allies. The intended outcome is to sharpen debate and policy responses to this potential phenomenon.

2019 (2 years)
$300,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and policy options to meet them. This project continues support for NPEC’s nonpartisan educational and policy outreach programs in the United States. NPEC aims to cultivate a cadre of knowledgeable and effective experts on nuclear policy issues in order to enhance the analytical treatment of nuclear policy issues among policymakers and their staff.

2017 (2 years)
$752,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and policy options to meet them. This award provides NPEC general operating support, which allows the organization to allocate funds for project activities as appropriate, and take advantage of policy opportunities as they arise. Support for general operations enables NPEC to strengthen the case for bipartisan solutions to a range of challenges, and continue to organize education and outreach activities that are designed to enhance the analytical treatment of nuclear policy issues among policymakers and their staff.

2015 (1 year 4 months)
$130,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and policy prescriptions to meet them. The project addresses the proliferation risks of planned operation of large commercial plutonium recycling plants in Northeast Asia. It presents policy prescriptions to address this challenge.

2015 (2 years 4 months)
$400,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates policymakers, journalists, and academics about nuclear proliferation threats and possible new policies to meet them. This project aims to inform and improve the execution of nuclear nonproliferation policy by extracting lessons from successful and unsuccessful cases of proliferation prevention. NPEC brings together academics and former officials to develop policy insights drawn from declassified historical records of previous successes and failures in preventing nuclear proliferation, shedding new light on the interaction of intelligence and policy efforts.

2013 (2 years)
$500,000

The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is a nonpartisan educational organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. This project will challenge the current conventional wisdom regarding the risks and benefits of East Asian states increasing their reliance on civilian and military nuclear energy. It will bring together experts from a range of communities - security, nonproliferation, and energy - to determine the real opportunities and risks associated with continued wholesale government promotion of nuclear power, including closing the fuel cycle, to examine possible nuclear futures and implications. This grant fits with the Foundation’s goal to prevent nuclear terrorism by promoting sound nuclear energy development policies worldwide. Funds will be used for partial staff salaries, travel, commission research, international conferences, and publication costs.

2010 (2 years)
$400,000

To support a policy research project titled, Nuclear Power Development We Can Live With: What International Security Requires (over two years).