Why America Should Keep Supporting the IAEA

A team of IAEA experts at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Flickr/Creative Commons/IAEA Imagebank

U.S. leaders from both sides of the aisle have consistently supported global efforts to prevent terrorists from stealing, transporting or using nuclear materials to wreak destruction and panic. Much of this work is accomplished through direct cooperation among the United States and other countries who wish to secure nuclear materials, improve nuclear detection, beef up nuclear forensics, or eliminate nuclear materials they no longer use. But this cannot and should not be something the United States does alone.