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Annotation, The U.S. government has made safeguarding of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium an international policy priority, and convened The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010. Forty six governments sent delegations to the summit and twenty nine of them made national commitments to support nuclear security. During the Summit, India announced its commitment to establish a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership. The Centre is to be open to international participation through academic0 exchanges, training, and research and development efforts."India-United States Cooperation on Global Security" is the summary of a workshop held by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) together with its partner of more than 15 years, the National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore, India. The workshop identified and examined potential areas for substantive scientific and technical cooperation between the two countries on issues related to nuclear material security. Technical experts from India and the United States focused on topics of nuclear material security and promising opportunities for India and the United States to learn from each other and cooperate. This report discusses nuclear materials management issues such as nuclear materials accounting, cyber security, physical security, and nuclear forensics

Intro -- UNITED STATES AND INDIASTRATEGIC COOPERATION -- UNITED STATES AND INDIA STRATEGIC COOPERATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE* -- GAUGING U.S.-INDIAN STRATEGIC COOPERATION -- NEGOTIATING THE OBSTACLES TO U.S.-INDIAN STRATEGIC COOPERATION -- ATOMIC ENERGY -- WILL THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION INITIATIVE LIGHT INDIA? -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS INDIA'S CURRENT AND FUTURE DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY? -- Indian Sector Composition -- Population Growth -- Geographic Distribution -- Electricity Demand Projections -- WHAT ELECTRICITY SUPPLY OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO INDIA? -- Total Potential Capacity -- ENERGY EFFICIENCY: VIRTUAL RESOURCES OF "NEGAWATTS" -- RELATIVE COSTS -- Coal -- Hydro -- Natural Gas -- Nuclear -- Renewables -- PACE OF DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION -- Coal -- Hydro -- Nuclear -- LOCATION OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS -- ENERGY INDEPENDENCE -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: KEY FINDINGS BY CRITERION -- APPENDIX B: MAIN POWER PLANTS IN INDIA -- APPENDIX C: COAL PRODUCTION, USE AND IMPORTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- End Notes -- NUCLEAR POWER IN INDIA:FAILED PAST, DUBIOUS FUTURE -- INITIATION -- ORGANIZATIONS AND STRUCTURE -- EXTERNAL INPUTS -- PROJECTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS -- BREEDER REACTORS -- EXPENSIVE POWER -- ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS -- NUCLEAR POWER, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- NUCLEAR POWER AND THE INDO-U.S. NUCLEAR DEAL -- CONCLUSIONS -- End Notes -- PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION IN INDIA AND THE U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- INDIA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- FISSILE MATERIALS IN INDIA -- Weapons Grade Plutonium -- Civil Plutonium -- The Uranium Constraint -- Power Reactor Spent Fuel -- The Fast Breeder Reactor Program -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX I: POWER REACTORS IN INDIA AND PAKISTAN -- End Notes -- TERRORISM, MISSILES, AND ARMS CONTROL.

Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take?