Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN)


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Date: 04/10/2001 Location: Biblis, Germany Description: A train with spent nuclear fuel in a special container in the last car slowly passes the huge cooling towers as it leaves the nuclear power plant in Biblis, Germany, Tuesday, April 10, 2001, headed for the nuclear reprocessing plant in La Hague, western France.© AP Image Date: 01/24/2007 Location: Manila, Philippines Description: Filipino participants in chemical suits spray water on their colleagues to decontaminate them during a field exercise on Radiological Dispersal Devices in suburban Taguig, south of Manila, Philippines. © AP Image Date: 03/11/2008 Location: Pyongyang, North Korea Description: North Korean missile unit takes part in a massive military parade. © AP Image Date: 01/10/2006 Location: Geesthacht, Germany Description: Engineers clean equipment around the spent fuel storage pool during a routine inspection at the nuclear power plant Kruemmel.© AP Image

"Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up." —President Barack Obama, April 5, 2009

Under the leadership of Assistant Secretary Thomas M. Countryman, the ISN Bureau comprises the following offices:

Nuclear Affairs (NA), Eliot Kang, DAS
Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs (ISN/MNSA)
Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety and Security (ISN/NESS)
Office of Regional Affairs (ISN/RA)

Non-Nuclear and Counter-Proliferation (NNCP), Vann Van Diepen, PDAS
Office of Missile, Biological and Chemical Nonproliferation (ISN/MBC)
Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction (ISN/CATR)
Office of Counter-Proliferation Initiatives (ISN/CPI)
Biological Policy Staff (ISN/BPS)

Nonproliferation Programs (NP), Simon Limage, DAS
Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR)
Office of Export Control Cooperation (ISN/ECC)
Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (ISN/NDF)
Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism (ISN/WMDT)
Office of Strategic Communications and Outreach (ISN/SCO)


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