Nuclear Security Culture: Concept, Implementation and Evaluation

Dr. Igor Khripunov, Distinguished Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Center for International Trade and Security, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, gives a presentation on nuclear security culture to students of the Monterey Institute at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He defines security culture as an attempt to merge together the human factor and technologies so they interact in a smooth way. He argues that nuclear security violations are due to a breakdown of the human factor and talks about the implications of the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit and what can be done as we move ahead to the next Security Summit in 2012.