Hui Zhang

September / October 2005

Don't Blame Beijing: In its own way, China is actually trying to influence North Korea

Journal Article, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

June 10, 2005

"Act Now to Stop a Space Arms Race"

Op-Ed, Financial Times

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

"While the US views —  and characterises —  these weapons as defensive, to China and to many other countries the construction of such a system looks more like the development of the Death Star spaceship in the Star Wars film series...."

June / July 2005

Chinese Perspectives on the North Korean Nuclear Issue

Conference Paper

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Hui Zhang discusses the regional security challenges posed by a nuclear North Korea.

May 16-17, 2005

"The U.S. Weaponization of Space: Chinese Perspectives"

Presentation

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Presentation at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute Conference:
Full Spectrum Dominance: The Impending Weaponization of Space,
Warrenton, Virginia, May 16–17, 2005.

11-13 May, 2005

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Reducing the Danger of Highly Enriched Uranium

Conference Paper

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

April, 2005

China's Policy of Plutonium Recycling: What's the Rationale?

Journal Article, INESAP Information Bulletin, issue 25

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Lately, China’s nuclear industry is entering a new round of fast development.  China pursues reprocessing of civilian spent fuel and recycling the plutonium thus gained in mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for light-water reactors (LWR) and in fast breeder reactors. At a time when plutonium recycling programs are being phased out worldwide, this paper will examine whether plutonium recycling makes sense for China, taking into account economic costs, nuclear energy security, and environmental aspects.

Winter 2005

Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting in China: An Evaluation of the Current System and Recommendations for Improvements

Journal Article, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, issue 2, volume 33

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting in China: An Evaluation of the Current System and Recommendations for Improvements

December 2004

"Chinese Perspectives on the Prevention of Space Weaponization"

Journal Article, INESAP Bulletin, issue 24

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

This paper was written for the conference "The Challenge of Hiroshima. Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, Missile Defenses, and Space Weaponization in a Northeast Asian Context" organized by INESAP and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on October 8-11, 2004, in Hiroshima, Japan.

Courtesy Missile Defense Agency

October 2004

"China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans"

Journal Article, Ensuring America's Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space, Federation of American Scientists

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

"China is concerned about U.S. missile defense and "space control"plans, which would lead to weaponization of outer space and stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race. China is further concerned that the US missile defense program, as currently advertised, would neutralize China's strategic nuclear deterrent...."

December 2003

"Radiological Terrorism: Sabotage of Spent Fuel Pools"

Journal Article, INESAP: International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, issue 22

By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Please see the INESAP Bulletin online for the full text at http://www.inesap.org/pdf/INESAP_Bulletin22.pdf.