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Exam 1 Part B (Case Problem) Project Description and
Instructions:
You have been hired as a financial consultant for an iPhone app
developing company.
You have been asked to compare two scenarios (Scenario 1 or
Scenario 2) with
different assumptions of sales price and annual demand for the
app based on similar
apps in the market. You are required to make a recommendation
to the company to
choose the scenario that will result in greater Net profit for the
firm for the first year.
You will use the IF function in cell G2 to compare Net Profit
under Scenario 1 and
Scenario 2 to make the recommendation of Scenario 1 or
Scenario 2.
The firm’s fixed costs for year 1 include development costs,
advertising costs and
maintenance costs. The only variable cost is the 30%
commission on the Sales Price
that is paid to apple for using their platform for each app sold.
The fixed and variable
costs remain unchanged for all scenarios.
Following is the data for costs:
Fixed Costs
Developer Costs $30,000
Advertising Costs $24,000
Maintenance Costs $12,000
Variable Cost per unit
Apple’s Commission 30% of Sales price
As part of this project you will also perform What-IF Analysis
using Goal seek and
determine the quantity needed to be sold to make a profit for
$500,000 at the end of
the first year if the sales price is $2.99. The Goal Seek solution
for Quantity Sold should
be referenced in cell G3.
Following is the Sales data including the Sales Price and the
Quantity Sold under each
scenario.
Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Goal Seek
Sales Price $1.99 $3.99 $2.99
Quantity Sold 300,000 100,000 To be determined
using goal seek
To begin working in this case you will need to download the
data file
iPhone_app_sales.xlsx provided to you and save it as
iPhone_app_sales
profit.xlsx .
The formulae needed to complete the case are provided below:
Total Fixed Costs= Developer +Advertising +Maintenance costs
Variable Cost per unit = Sales Price* Apple’s commission
Total Variable Costs= Variable Cost per unit * Quantity Sold
Contribution Margin = Sales Price – Variable Cost per unit
Quantity Sold for Breakeven = Round((Total Fixed Costs/
Contribution Margin),0)
Sales Revenue = Sales Price * Quantity Sold
Net Profit = Sales Revenue – Total Fixed Costs – Total Variable
Costs
Arms Control Association
A New Era for Nuclear Security
Author(s): Martin B. Malin and Nickolas Roth
Source: Arms Control Today, Vol. 46, No. 5 (JUNE 2016), pp.
8-15
Published by: Arms Control Association
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By Martin B. Malin and Nickolas Roth
A New Era for Nuclear Security
The 2016 nuclear security summit was
a pivotal moment for the decades
long effort to secure nuclear material
around the globe. More than 50 national leaders
gathered in Washington for the last of four
biennial meetings that have led to significant
progress in strengthening measures to reduce
the risk of nuclear theft.
These summits have played a critical
role in nurturing that progress by
elevating the political salience of nuclear
security and providing a forum for world
leaders to announce new commitments,
share information, and hold one another
accountable for following through on
promised actions.
The international community is
now entering the post-summit era, in
which nuclear security will probably
receive less-regular high-level political
attention than it has in recent years.
Yet, there is still critical work to be
done to reduce the danger that nuclear
weapons or the materials needed to
make them could end up in the hands
of a terrorist organization such as the
Islamic State. Governments still do
not agree on what nuclear security
priorities are most pressing or how best
to sustain the momentum generated by
the summits. As the era of summitry
recedes, will states continue improving
measures to prevent nuclear theft and
sabotage, or will the summits turn out
to have been a high-water mark for
nuclear security efforts?
Progress at the 2016 Summit
Over the course of the summit process,
the participating states committed
themselves to dozens of cooperative
initiatives seeking to strengthen
aspects of nuclear security, reduced
vulnerabilities in their security systems,
and pledged to continue joint efforts
through multilateral groups and
international institutions. The 2016
summit, held March 31-April 1 in
Washington, marked progress on all of
these fronts.
Like the 2010 summit in Washington,
the 2012 summit in Seoul, and the
2014 summit in The Hague, this year's
meeting produced a consensus-based
communique. At the three most recent
summits, smaller groups of participants
also produced a series of joint statements
and group commitments, or "gift
baskets."1 At this year's summit, all
but three states participated in at least
one of 18 gift baskets or nine joint
statements, which covered a range
of areas, including insider threats,
transport security, minimization of
the use of highly enriched uranium
(HEU), and cybersecurity.2 Among the
most important outcomes of the recent
summit was the establishment of a
Martin B. Malin is executive director of the Project on
Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center
for Science and
International Affairs. From 2000 to 2007, he was director of
the Program on Science and Global Security at the American
Academy of Arts
and Sciences. Nickolas Roth is a research associate at the
Project on Managing the Atom. Parts of this article draw from
the authors' article
with Matthew Bunn and William H. Tobey in 2016 titled
"Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or
Dangerous Decline?"
By Martin B. Malin and Nickolas Roth
A New Era for Nuclear Security
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Research reactor fuel made from highly enriched uranium is
prepared for removal from Vietnam on June 29, 2013.
contact group, which will meet annually
to discuss nuclear security.
Some of the major accomplishments
of the summit are listed below.
Strengthening the commitment to
nuclear security. China and India
joined 36 states that had signed on to
an important 2014 summit initiative
on strengthening nuclear security
implementation.3 Members of this
group committed to "meet the intent"
of International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) nuclear security principles
and recommendations, conduct self
assessments, host periodic peer reviews
of their nuclear security, and ensure
that "management and personnel with
accountability for nuclear security
are demonstrably competent," along
with several other actions. This was
an important commitment for China
and India, demonstrati ng a measure
of transparency and reassurance on
nuclear security. Prior to the 2016
summit, neither country had been
open to participating in such initiatives
although both nuclear-armed states face
terrorist threats.4
The summit process also helped to
build support for a foundational and
legally binding international nuclear
security instrument. After more than
a decade, the 2005 amendment to the
Convention on the Physical Protection
of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) reached
the required number of ratifications to
enter into force in May. The amendment
outlines nuclear security principles
and requires states to establish rules
and regulations for physical protection.
It also requires a review conference
five years after entry into force and,
if members choose to have them,
additional review conferences at
intervals of at least five years.5 The
amended CPPNM, now officially known
as the Convention on the Physical
Protection of Nuclear Material and
Nuclear Facilities, could be a helpful
tool for states to hold one another
accountable for maintaining physical
protection and strengthening norms.
Reducing nuclear security vulnerabilities.
In addition to announcing new
commitments, the summits were
occasions for states to report on steps
they had taken to remove or eliminate
HEU or plutonium, convert reactors,
improve physical protection, strengthen
regulation, and contribute support to
the IAEA or other international nuclear
security work.
At the recent summit, Japan and the
United States announced the completion
of a commitment they made in 2014
to remove more than 500 kilograms of
nuclear weapons-usable material from
Japan.6 Argentina announced it had
eliminated the last of its HEU, making
it the 18th state to clean out all of its
nuclear weapons-usable material since
the beginning of the summit process.
Indonesia declared it had eliminated all
of its fresh HEU and planned to get rid
of all its HEU in 2016.
China announced the opening of its
nuclear security center of excellence.
Since 2010, China has worked with
the United States to build the center
as a hub for training, bilateral and
multilateral best practice exchanges, and
technology demonstration.7 The center
will help China test and strengthen its
own nuclear security measures and will
Research reactor fuel made from highly enriched uranium is
prepared for removal from Vietnam on June 29, 2013.
Sandor Tozser/IAEA
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provide a venue for cooperation with
others in the region and beyond.
The White House reported that
20 states hosted or invited peer
review missions through the IAEA or
from other states. Many other states
announced that they had strengthened
nuclear security laws or regulations,
upgraded physical security, or updated
the list of threats against which their
nuclear facilities must be protected.
Continuing the dialogue. An important
new gift basket created a nuclear
security contact group that will
convene annually on the margins of
the IAEA General Conference. The
contact group will carry forward the
consultative element of the summit
process, providing a forum for senior
government officials to meet and
discuss current efforts, evaluate progress
on previously made commitments,
and identify future priorities. If states
buy into the idea of the contact group
and take action to strengthen it, the
group, whose membership is open to
states that did not participate in the
summits, could be an important vehicle
for sustaining international nuclear
security cooperation.
The summit also produced statements
on bilateral nuclear security discussions
between key countries. For example,
China and the United States agreed
to increase cooperation on nuclear
terrorism prevention and conduct an
annual dialogue on nuclear security.
In addition, summit participants
agreed to action plans for the IAEA, the
United Nations, Interpol, the Global
Partnership Against the Spread of
Weapons and Materials of Destruction,
and the Global Initiative to Combat
Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). The plans
outline the roles these organizations
will play in supporting ongoing nuclear
security discussions now that the
summits have ended.
Gaps and Missed Opportunities
In their communique, the participants
in the 2016 summit pledged to
"continuously strengthen nuclear
security at national, regional, and
global levels."8 Striving for continuous
improvement is the right way to frame
the challenge of providing effective
and sustainable nuclear security.
Unfortunately, summit participants
missed important opportunities to give
added momentum to the effort. The
following issues continue to require
attention.
Still no global standard for nuclear
security. Although the amended
CPPNM establishes general security
principles, it lacks specific standards
or guidelines and applies only to
materials in civilian use. UN Security
Council Resolution 1540 requires states
to provide "appropriate effective"
protection for all materials, among other
relevant measures, but does not specify
what constitutes appropriate effective
protection.9 IAEA recommendations,
to which dozens of states have
now publicly subscribed, provide
somewhat more specificity, but their
implementation is voluntary. Although
the summit process certainly helped
produce a shared understanding of the
importance of nuclear security, it fell
short of producing a consensus on a
meaningful minimum global standard.
If a global standard was beyond
reach during the summits, a public
commitment to stringent nuclear
security measures among the states
possessing the biggest stocks of HEU
and plutonium would have been a
consequential step. Although China's
and India's endorsements of the
initiative on strengthening nuclear
security implementation was an
important development, Russia's absence
from the summit and Russia's and
Pakistan's refusal to sign that statement
is a significant gap in the patchwork of
nuclear security commitments.
Furthermore, the summit outcomes
were not comprehensive. Although
the summit communiques explicitly
covered "all" nuclear material, most
of the concrete progress from the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for an April 1
plenary session of the
nuclear security summit in Washington. During the summit,
China and India joined
an initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for an April 1
plenary session of the
nuclear security summit in Washington. During the summit,
China and India joined
an initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation.
Saul Loeb/Getty Images
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (left) talks with Chinese
President Xi Jinping (right) at the summit on April 1.
meetings focused on civilian materials,
largely ignoring the roughly four-fifths
of the world's remaining HEU and
plutonium that is controlled by military
organizations.10
A mixed picture on implementation.
Nuclear facilities in many countries still
are not protected against the full range of
threats. States with large stocks of nuclear
weapons-usable material still contend
with corruption and extremism.11 On
the ground, security upgrades remain
urgently needed in many spots around
the world. One indication of the extent of
the inconsistent application of physical
protection measures is that, after all of
the high-level attention since the 2010
summit, at least six countries—Argentina,
Brazil, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain,
and Sweden—still do not have armed
guards at their nuclear facilities.12
The collapse of U.S.-Russian bilateral
cooperation is particularly alarming.
Without Russian and U.S. commitments
to rebuilding their bilateral nuclear
security relationship, it will be impossible
for the two states that possess roughly
80 percent of the world's weapons-usable
nuclear material to reassure one another
that their nuclear security is sound.
Slippage of consolidation and
minimization goals. The Obama
administration put laudable effort into
cleaning out HEU and plutonium from
many countries and minimizing the
use of HEU elsewhere. Yet, political
obstacles will likely make substantial
additional progress more difficult
than in the past, in particular for
the hundreds of kilograms of HEU in
Belarus and South Africa. Conversion of
additional HEU-fueled research reactors
to use low-enriched uranium fuel,
particularly but not only in Russia, is
hampered by technical challenges and
political inattention. Moreover, summit
participants failed to reach agreement,
even in principle, on stopping or
reversing the buildup of separated
plutonium.13
Continuing culture of complacency in
some countries. The summits put the
notion of nuclear security culture on
the agenda for many countries where
it previously had been neglected.
Nevertheless, workers, managers,
policy officials, and even national
leaders in many places still dismiss
the threat of terrorist theft or sabotage
as remote or implausible.14 Many
organizations handling nuclear
weapons, HEU, or separated plutonium
do not have specific programs focused
on strengthening security culture.
The IAEA has still not published its
nuclear security culture self-assessment
guide.15 The summit process helped
spark interest in strengthening security
culture, but much more work is needed.
Need for more-robust channels for
dialogue. The political momentum
created by the summits will not
likely be re-created through other
organizations, although the contact
group, IAEA ministerial meetings, a
review conference for the amended
CPPNM, and other forums certainly will
provide important opportunities for
discussion, reporting on progress, and
further cooperation.
The recent summit's action plans did
not significantly expand or strengthen
the global nuclear security architecture.
The IAEA has assumed greater
responsibility for convening high-level
discussions on nuclear security and has
intensified its nuclear security efforts
since the first summit. Yet, the agency
still deals only with civilian material
and has no authority to require states
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to take any action on nuclear security.16
The nuclear security capacities of the
UN and Interpol are even less robust,
and the multilateral groupings, the
GICNT and Global Partnership, remain
unchanged by the action plans the
summit participants produced.
Finally, Russia's absence from
the recent summit may bode ill for
out of reach for the present. Yet, a
group of states like-minded emanating
from within the contact group or a
special working group of the GICNT
could develop a set of principles and
guidelines that they pledge to apply
to all stocks of nuclear weapons, HEU,
and plutonium and invite other states
to join them. Such a commitment
that are needed. The United States
should expand nuclear security
cooperation with China, India, and
Pakistan, sharing additional information
on security arrangements without
revealing sensitive information that
would increase vulnerability to terrorist
attack. The United States also will need
to make a priority of discussions with a
In the interest of promoting cooperation,
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the successful implementation of
the summit action plans. Moscow's
leadership and cooperation in all of the
organizations referenced in the action
plans will be necessary for many key
nuclear security steps.
Progress in the Post-Summit Era
In the interest of promoting
cooperation, the summits frequently
focused on plucking low-hanging fruit,
while failing to advance more-difficult
discussions of threats and persistent
challenges. Governments must focus not
only on what is most feasible but also on
what is most urgently needed in light of
the evolving threats they face.17
Nuclear security efforts should have
a clear goal: ensuring that all nuclear
weapons and the materials that could be
used to make them, wherever they are in
the world, are effectively and sustainably
secured against the full range of threats
that terrorists and thieves might plausibly
pose.18 Building an international
consensus around such a goal will be
a major challenge for the next U.S.
president and for like-minded leaders.
The 2016 summit communique alludes
to the goal of continuous improvement.
Achieving that goal will require work on
several fronts. Here are some of the most
important areas of focus.19
Building up the commitment to stringent
nuclear security standards. A legally
binding set of international standards
for nuclear security is unfortunately
should include the provision of well
trained, well-equipped on-site guard
forces; comprehensive measures
to protect against insider threats;
control and accounting systems that
can detect and localize any theft of
weapons-usable nuclear material;
protections against cyberthreats that are
integrated with other nuclear security
measures; effective nuclear security
rules and regulations and independent
regulators capable of enforcing them;
regular and realistic testing of nuclear
security systems, including force-on
force exercises; a robust program for
enhancing security culture; and regular
assessments of the evolving threat of
theft or sabotage. Following the example
of the initial group of adherents, the
accumulation of international support
for more-comprehensive standards could
grow over time.
In the meantime, leading states that
are bound by the amended CPPNM
should push to universalize the treaty,
and the states that have joined the
initiative on strengthening nuclear
security implementation initiative
should encourage others to commit to
implement IAEA recommendations and
accept peer review.
Implementing effective and sustainable
security measures on the ground.
Commitments to stringent standards
are meaningful only if they translate
into real improvements. Bilateral
cooperation can help spur the actions
wide range of countries on enhancing
their own nuclear security, providing
resources when needed.
Despite tensions over Ukraine and
other issues, Russia and the United States
should agree to a package of cooperation
that includes nuclear energy initiatives,
which are of particular interest to
Russia, and nuclear security initiatives,
which are of particular interest to the
United States. Although it is unlikely
in the current political environment,
one mechanism for achieving this goal
would be to restart the U.S.-Russian
Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Security
Working Group, which facilitated
dialogue from 2009 until it was
suspended in 2014 because of tensions
between the two countries. Cooperation
should no longer be based on a donor
recipient relationship but on an equal
partnership with ideas and resources
coming from both sides.20
Increasing efforts to reduce the number of
sites where nuclear weapons and weapons
usable materials are stored. Today there
are fewer locations where HEU and
plutonium can be stolen because of
removals motivated by the summit
process. The consolidation process
must continue. Stringent security
requirements can help to incentivize
the process of consolidation, as can
well-funded programs for conversion
of HEU-fueled reactors and removal
of material. Russia and the United
States, as the countries whose nuclear
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A member of the security force at the Chinon nuclear plant
patrols the plant site near Avoine, France, on January 6, 2012.
Data
from a recent report indicate that at least six countries do not
require their nuclear facilities to have armed guards.
stockpiles are dispersed in the largest
number of buildings and bunkers,
should each develop a national-level
plan for accomplishing their military
and civilian nuclear objectives with the
smallest practicable number of locations.
The United States and other interested
countries should ensure that plutonium
and HEU bulk processing facilities do
not spread to other countries or expand
in number or scale of operations and
that no more plutonium is separated
than is used, bringing global plutonium
stocks down over time.
Establishing a nuclear security culture
that does not tolerate complacency about
threats and vulnerabilities. Every country
with relevant materials and facilities
should have a program in place to assess
and strengthen security culture, and all
nuclear managers and security-relevant
staff should receive regular information,
appropriate to their role, on evolving
threats to nuclear security. At the same
time, interested countries should launch
initiatives to combat complacency,
including a shared database of security
incidents and lessons learned; detailed
reports and briefings on the nuclear
terrorism threat; discussions among
intelligence agencies, on which most
governments rely for information about
the threats to their country; and an
expanded program of nuclear theft and
terrorism exercises.
Building up channels for dialogue.
Countries must continue to share
information and devise plans to meet
current nuclear security challenges.
The IAEA ministerial-level meetings
on nuclear security will provide an
important forum. If parties to the
amended CPPNM elect to meet every
five years to review progress, this process
could create important opportunities
to place high-level pressure on states to
step up nuclear security commitments
and implementation.
A more comprehensive scope of
cooperation, including on military
materials, could take place in
multilateral forums. The GICNT, co
chaired by Russia and the United States
and still valued by both, consists of
more than 80 states committed to
the group's statement of principles,
which includes improving measures
that reduce the risk of nuclear theft
such as accounting, control, and
protection of nuclear and radiological
materials. The group has not focused
on these preventive approaches so
far, but it should in the future.21
This summer represents the GICNT's
10th anniversary, which would be an
excellent time to announce the creation
of a GICNT working group focused
specifically on strengthening security
for nuclear materials and facilities. The
GICNT could also be a useful forum for
Russia and the United States to expand
nuclear security cooperation.
The contact group created at the
nuclear security summit this year
holds promise for facilitating dialogue,
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A member of the security force at the Chinon nuclear plant
patrols the plant site near Avoine, France, on January 6, 2012.
Data
from a recent report indicate that at least six countries do not
require their nuclear facilities to have armed guards.
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Khammar Mrabit, director of the International Atomic Energy
Agency's Division of Nuclear Security, speaks on June 12,
2014,
at a meeting in Vienna on promoting entry into force of the
2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection
of
Nuclear Material.
sharing information, and germinating
joint activities. Its openness to all
IAEA members has the advantage of
potentially attracting states beyond
the ring of past summit participants.
Its size and heterogeneity, however,
may limit the depth and effectiveness
of the discussions. The contact group
should select an executive committee of
member state representatives—perhaps
former summit hosts plus Russia, if
it chooses to join—to establish and
coordinate its agenda for discussion.
Finally, summit-level nuclear security
meetings could be continued on the side
of Group of 20 meetings, perhaps once
every four years. This would sustain
the kind of executive-level political
attention to nuclear security that
summits provided.
The nuclear security summits
periodically pressed participants to
commit themselves to new and stronger
measures for preventing nuclear
terrorism. They facilitated a process
of stocktaking and reporting on the
concrete actions participants had taken.
Moreover, they were a vehicle for forging
stronger international collaboration on
bolstering nuclear security around the
globe. States must continue to build on
the progress they made through the
summit process. If they do, the 2016
summit will mark the beginning, rather
than the end, of a new era of continuous
improvement in nuclear security.
ENDNOTES
1. For a comprehensive assessment of
progress in fulfilling commitments from the
summits prior to 2016, see Michelle Cann,
Kelsey Davenport, and Jenna Parker, "The
Nuclear Security Summit: Progress Report on
Joint Statements," Arms Control Association
and Partnership for Global Security, March
2015, https://www.armscontrol.org/
reports/2015/The-Nuclear-Security-Summit
Progress-Report-on-Joint-Statements.
2. The three countries that did not join
gift baskets were Gabon, Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia. For a list of gift baskets and joint
statements from the 2016 summit, see "2016
Washington Summit," Nuclear Security
Matters, n.d., http://nuclearsecuritymatters.
belfercenter.org/2016-washington-summit.
3. "Strengthening Nuclear Security
Implementation," March 25, 2014,
http://www.state.gov/documents/
organization/235508.pdf. Thirty-five
countries signed the 2014 statement. Jordan
joined in late 2015.
4. See Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, "India
Khammar Mrabit, director of the International Atomic Energy
Agency's Division of Nuclear Security, speaks on June 12,
2014,
at a meeting in Vienna on promoting entry into force of the
2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection
of
Nuclear Material.
Dean Calma/(AEA
ENDNOTES
1. For a comprehensive assessment of
progress in fulfilling commitments from the
summits prior to 2016, see Michelle Cann,
Kelsey Davenport, and Jenna Parker, "The
Nuclear Security Summit: Progress Report on
Joint Statements," Arms Control Association
and Partnership for Global Security, March
2015, https://www.armscontrol.org/
reports/2015/The-Nuclear-Security-Summit
Progress-Report-on-Joint-Statements.
2. The three countries that did not join
gift baskets were Gabon, Pakistan, and Saudi
Arabia. For a list of gift baskets and joint
statements from the 2016 summit, see "2016
Washington Summit," Nuclear Security
Matters, n.d., http://nuclearsecuritymatters.
belfercenter.org/2016-washington-summit.
3. "Strengthening Nuclear Security
Implementation," March 25, 2014,
http://www.state.gov/documents/
organization/235508.pdf. Thirty-five
countries signed the 2014 statement. Jordan
joined in late 2015.
4. See Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, "India
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and the Nuclear Security Summit," Nuclear
Security Matters, April 26, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/
blog/india-and-nuclear-security-summ; Hui
Zhang, "China Makes Significant Nuclear
Security Pledges at 2016 Summit," Nuclear
Security Matters, April 8, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/blog/
china-makes-significant-nuclear-security
pledges-2016-summit.
5. For background on the amended
Convention on the Physical Protection of
Nuclear Material, see "Convention on the
Physical Protection of Nuclear Material,"
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
n.d., https://www.iaea.org/publications/
documents/conventions/convention-physical
protection-nuclear-material. For an argument
that the review conferences envisioned in
the amendment could help drive nuclear
security progress, see Jonathan Herbach and
Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, "More Work to Do: A
Pathway for Future Progress on Strengthening
Nuclear Security," Arms Control Today,
October 2015.
6. "Joint Statement by the Leaders of Japan
and the United States on Contributions to
Global Minimization of Nuclear Material,"
April 1, 2016, http://nuclearsecuritymatters.
belfercenter.org/files/nuclearmatters/files/
joint_statement_by_the_leaders_of_japan_
and_the_united_states_on_contrib.pdf.
7. Office of the Press Secretary, The White
House, "U.S.-China Joint Statement on
Nuclear Security Cooperation," March 31,
2016, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press
office/2016/03/31/us-china-joint-statement
nuclear-security-cooperation.
8. "Nuclear Security Summit 2016
Communique," April 1, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.
org/files/nuclearmatters/files/nuclear_
security_summit_2016_communique.
pdf?m=1460469255.
9. See Matthew Bunn, "Appropriate
Effective Nuclear Security and Accounting—
What Is It?" (presentation, "Appropriate
Effective" Material Accounting and Physical
Protection—Joint Global Initiative/UNSCR
1540 Workshop," Nashville, TN, July 18,
2008), http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/
files/bunn-1540-appropriate-effective50.pdf.
10. For a discussion of security for military
materials, see Des Browne, Richard Lugar, and
Sam Nunn, "Bridging the Military Nuclear
Materials Gap," Nuclear Threat Initiative
(NTI), 2015, http://www.nti.org/media/
pdfs/NTI_report_2015_e_version.pdf. The
2016 summit communique reaffirmed that
states had a fundamental responsibility "to
maintain at all times effective security of
all nuclear and other radioactive material,
including nuclear materials used in nuclear
weapons." See "Nuclear Security Summit
2016 Communique."
11. For a more complete discussion of the
threats some countries with nuclear material
face, see Matthew Bunn et al., "Preventing
Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement
or Dangerous Decline?" Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Harvard
Kennedy School, March 2016, pp. 39-52,
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/
PreventingNuclearTerrorism-Web.pdf.
12. For country information on physical
protection, see the 2016 NTI Nuclear Security
Index for sabotage, http://ntiindex.org/
wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-NTI
Index-Data-2016.03.25.zip. Belgium has only
recently added armed guards to its nuclear
facilities. The Swedish regulator has ordered
that facilities post armed guards by February
2017. See Steven Mufson, "Brussels Attacks
Stoke Fears About Security of Belgian Nuclear
Facilities," The Washington Post, March 25,
2016; "Swedish Regulator Orders Tighter
Security at Nuclear Plants," Reuters, February
5, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/
sweden-nuclear-security-idUSL8N15K3SS.
13. The 2014 summit communique states,
"We encourage States to minimise their
stocks of [highly enriched uranium] and to
keep their stockpile of separated plutonium
to the minimum level, both as consistent
with national requirements." "The Hague
Nuclear Security Summit Communique,"
March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/
documents/organization/237002.pdf. In
2016, there was no mention of plutonium in
the communique.
14. Matthew Bunn and Eben Harrell
surveyed nuclear experts in states with
nuclear weapons-usable material and found
that some respondents did not find certain
threats credible, despite extensive evidence
to the contrary. See Matthew Bunn and Eben
Harrell, "Threat Perceptions and Drivers
of Change in Nuclear Security Around the
World: Results of a Survey," Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs,
Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014,
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/
surveypaperfulltext.pdf.
15. IAEA, "Self-Assessment of Nuclear
Security Culture in Facilities and Activities
That Use Nuclear and/or Radioactive Material:
Draft Technical Guidance," July 2, 2014, http://
www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/security/security
series-drafts/tech-guidance/nst026.pdf.
16. See Trevor Findlay, "Beyond Nuclear
Summitry: The Role of the IAEA in Nuclear
Security Diplomacy After 2016," Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs,
Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014,
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/
beyondnuclearsummitryfullpaper.pdf.
17. For a discussion of how the threat of
nuclear terrorism has evolved over time, see
Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism,"
pp. 14-26, 133-143.
18. Ibid., p. 96.
19. For the recommendations on which this
section draws, see Bunn et al., "Preventing
Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 96-133.
20. For a more complete description of
the end of nuclear security cooperation,
see Nickolas Roth, "Russian Nuclear
Security Cooperation: Rebuilding Equality,
Mutual Benefit, and Respect," Deep Cuts
Commission, June 2015, http://deepcuts.
org/files/pdf/Deep_Cuts_Issue_Brief4_US
Russian_Nuclear_Security_Cooperationl.pdf.
21. Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear
Terrorism (GICNT), "Fact Sheet," n.d., http://
www.gicnt.org/content/downloads/sop/
GICNT_Fact_Sheet_June2015.pdf. Although
the GICNT terms of reference state that its
activities do not involve "military nuclear
programs of the nuclear weapon states party
to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of
Nuclear Weapons," the group's statement
of principles, which is the only document
GICNT members are required to endorse,
contains no such exclusion. See Bureau of
International Security and Nonproliferation,
U.S. Department of State, "Terms of Reference
for Implementation and Assessment,"
November 20, 2006, http://2001-2009.state.
gov/t/isn/rls/other/76421.htm; GICNT,
"Statement of Principles," 2015, http://gicnt.
org/content/downloads/sop/Statement_of_
Principles.pdf.
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and the Nuclear Security Summit," Nuclear
Security Matters, April 26, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/
blog/india-and-nuclear-security-summ; Hui
Zhang, "China Makes Significant Nuclear
Security Pledges at 2016 Summit," Nuclear
Security Matters, April 8, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/blog/
china-makes-significant-nuclear-security
pledges-2016-summit.
5. For background on the amended
Convention on the Physical Protection of
Nuclear Material, see "Convention on the
Physical Protection of Nuclear Material,"
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
n.d., https://www.iaea.org/publications/
documents/conventions/convention-physical
protection-nuclear-material. For an argument
that the review conferences envisioned in
the amendment could help drive nuclear
security progress, see Jonathan Herbach and
Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, "More Work to Do: A
Pathway for Future Progress on Strengthening
Nuclear Security," Arms Control Today,
October 2015.
6. "Joint Statement by the Leaders of Japan
and the United States on Contributions to
Global Minimization of Nuclear Material,"
April 1, 2016, http://nuclearsecuritymatters.
belfercenter.org/files/nuclearmatters/files/
joint_statement_by_the_leaders_of_japan_
and_the_united_states_on_contrib.pdf.
7. Office of the Press Secretary, The White
House, "U.S.-China Joint Statement on
Nuclear Security Cooperation," March 31,
2016, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press
office/2016/03/31/us-china-joint-statement
nuclear-security-cooperation.
8. "Nuclear Security Summit 2016
Communiqué," April 1, 2016, http://
nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.
org/files/nuclearmatters/files/nuclear_
security_summit_2016_communique.
pdf?m=1460469255.
9. See Matthew Bunn, "Appropriate
Effective Nuclear Security and Accounting—
What Is It?" (presentation, "Appropriate
Effective" Material Accounting and Physical
Protection—Joint Global Initiative/UNSCR
1540 Workshop," Nashville, TN, July 18,
2008), http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/
files/bunn-1540-appropriate-ef fective50.pdf.
10. For a discussion of security for military
materials, see Des Browne, Richard Lugar, and
Sam Nunn, "Bridging the Military Nuclear
Materials Gap," Nuclear Threat Initiative
(NTI), 2015, http://www.nti.org/media/
pdfs/NTI_report_2015_e_version.pdf. The
2016 summit communiqué reaffirmed that
states had a fundamental responsibility "to
maintain at all times effective security of
all nuclear and other radioactive material,
including nuclear materials used in nuclear
weapons." See "Nuclear Security Summit
2016 Communiqué."
11. For a more complete discussion of the
threats some countries with nuclear material
face, see Matthew Bunn et al., "Preventing
Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement
or Dangerous Decline?" Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Harvard
Kennedy School, March 2016, pp. 39-52,
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/
PreventingNuclearTerrorism-Web.pdf.
12. For country information on physical
protection, see the 2016 NTI Nuclear Security
Index for sabotage, http://ntiindex.org/
wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-NTI
Index-Data-2016.03.25.zip. Belgium has only
recently added armed guards to its nuclear
facilities. The Swedish regulator has ordered
that facilities post armed guards by February
2017. See Steven Mufson, "Brussels Attacks
Stoke Fears About Security of Belgian Nuclear
Facilities," The Washington Post, March 25,
2016; "Swedish Regulator Orders Tighter
Security at Nuclear Plants," Reuters, February
5, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/
sweden-nuclear-security-idUSL8N15K3SS.
13. The 2014 summit communiqué states,
"We encourage States to minimise their
stocks of [highly enriched uranium] and to
keep their stockpile of separated plutonium
to the minimum level, both as consistent
with national requirements." "The Hague
Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué,"
March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/
documents/organization/237002.pdf. In
2016, there was no mention of plutonium in
I the communiqué.
14. Matthew Bunn and Eben Harrell
surveyed nuclear experts in states with
nuclear weapons-usable material and found
that some respondents did not find certain
threats credible, despite extensive evidence
to the contrary. See Matthew Bunn and Eben
Harrell, "Threat Perceptions and Drivers
of Change in Nuclear Security Around the
World: Results of a Survey," Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs,
Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014,
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/
surveypaperfulltext.pdf.
15. IAEA, "Self-Assessment of Nuclear
Security Culture in Facilities and Activities
That Use Nuclear and/or Radioactive Material:
Draft Technical Guidance," July 2, 2014, http://
www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/security/security
series-drafts/tech-guidance/nst026.pdf.
; 16. See Trevor Findlay, "Beyond Nuclear
Summitry: The Role of the IAEA in Nuclear
Security Diplomacy After 2016," Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs,
Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014,
http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/
beyondnuclearsummitryfullpaper.pdf.
17. For a discussion of how the threat of
nuclear terrorism has evolved over time, see
Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism,"
pp. 14-26, 133-143.
18. Ibid., p. 96.
19. For the recommendations on which this
section draws, see Bunn et al., "Preventing
Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 96-133.
20. For a more complete description of
the end of nuclear security cooperation,
see Nickolas Roth, "Russian Nuclear
Security Cooperation: Rebuilding Equality,
Mutual Benefit, and Respect," Deep Cuts
Commission, June 2015, http://deepcuts.
org/files/pdf/Deep_Cuts_Issue_Brief4_US
Russian_Nuclear_Security_Cooperationl.pdf.
21. Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear
Terrorism (GICNT), "Fact Sheet," n.d., http://
www.gicnt.org/content/downloads/sop/
GICNT_Fact_Sheet_June2015.pdf. Although
the GICNT terms of reference state that its
activities do not involve "military nuclear
programs of the nuclear weapon states party
to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of
Nuclear Weapons," the group's statement
of principles, which is the only document
GICNT members are required to endorse,
contains no such exclusion. See Bureau of
International Security and Nonproliferation,
U.S. Department of State, "Terms of Reference
for Implementation and Assessment,"
November 20, 2006, http://2001-2009.state.
gov/t/isn/rls/other/76421.htm; GICNT,
"Statement of Principles," 2015, http://gicnt.
org/content/downloads/sop/Statement_of_
Principles.pdf.
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2019 13:39:36 UTC
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Contentsp. 8p. 9p. 10p. 11p. 12p. 13p. 14p. 15Issue Table of
ContentsArms Control TODAY, Vol. 46, No. 5 (JUNE 2016) pp.
1-36Front MatterFOCUS: Obama's India Nuclear Blind Spot
[pp. 3-3]InBRIEF [pp. 4-4]News Briefs [pp. 5-6]On the
Calendar [pp. 6-6]Reports of Note [pp. 7-7]A New Era for
Nuclear Security [pp. 8-15]Just Leave It: NATO's Nuclear
Weapons Policy At the Warsaw Summit [pp. 16-
21]Conventional Arms Control In Europe: Decline, Disarray,
And the Need for Reinvention [pp. 22-25]InThe NEWSTHE
WORLDMomentum Builds for Nuclear Ban Treaty [pp. 26-
28]Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Initiative Turns 10 [pp. 28-30]ASIA
AND AUSTRALIANorth Korea Tests Land, Sea Missiles [pp.
31-32]China Expands Missile Arsenal [pp. 32-33]THE UNITED
STATES AND THE AMERICASObama Addresses Hiroshima
Experience [pp. 34-34]EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET
UNIONRomania Missile Defense Site Activated [pp. 35-
35]GETTING TO KNOW: Greg Thielmann [pp. 36-36]Back
Matter
DocumentationProfit MaximizationAuthorDatePurposeChoose
between two sales scenarios to determine the one that
maximizes Profit for iPhone App and use Goal Seek
Scenario SheetApp for iPhoneEstimate of Annual profit for year
1Scenario 1Scenario 2Goal SeekRecommendation (Scenario 1 or
Scenario 2)AssumptionsQuantity Sold for Goal SeekSales
PriceQuantity SoldFixed CostsDeveloper
costs$30,000.00$30,000.00$30,000.00Advertising
$24,000.00$24,000.00$24,000.00Maintainence and
Support$12,000.00$12,000.00$12,000.00Total Fixed
CostsVariable CostsApple's commission as percent of Sales
price30%30%30%Variable Cost per unitTotal Variable
CostsBreakeven and Profit Contribution MarginQuantity to be
sold for BreakevenSales RevenueNet Profit
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  • 8. with Matthew Bunn and William H. Tobey in 2016 titled "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline?" By Martin B. Malin and Nickolas Roth A New Era for Nuclear Security This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Research reactor fuel made from highly enriched uranium is prepared for removal from Vietnam on June 29, 2013. contact group, which will meet annually to discuss nuclear security. Some of the major accomplishments of the summit are listed below. Strengthening the commitment to nuclear security. China and India joined 36 states that had signed on to an important 2014 summit initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation.3 Members of this group committed to "meet the intent" of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear security principles and recommendations, conduct self
  • 9. assessments, host periodic peer reviews of their nuclear security, and ensure that "management and personnel with accountability for nuclear security are demonstrably competent," along with several other actions. This was an important commitment for China and India, demonstrati ng a measure of transparency and reassurance on nuclear security. Prior to the 2016 summit, neither country had been open to participating in such initiatives although both nuclear-armed states face terrorist threats.4 The summit process also helped to build support for a foundational and legally binding international nuclear security instrument. After more than a decade, the 2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) reached the required number of ratifications to enter into force in May. The amendment outlines nuclear security principles and requires states to establish rules and regulations for physical protection. It also requires a review conference five years after entry into force and,
  • 10. if members choose to have them, additional review conferences at intervals of at least five years.5 The amended CPPNM, now officially known as the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities, could be a helpful tool for states to hold one another accountable for maintaining physical protection and strengthening norms. Reducing nuclear security vulnerabilities. In addition to announcing new commitments, the summits were occasions for states to report on steps they had taken to remove or eliminate HEU or plutonium, convert reactors, improve physical protection, strengthen regulation, and contribute support to the IAEA or other international nuclear security work. At the recent summit, Japan and the United States announced the completion of a commitment they made in 2014 to remove more than 500 kilograms of nuclear weapons-usable material from
  • 11. Japan.6 Argentina announced it had eliminated the last of its HEU, making it the 18th state to clean out all of its nuclear weapons-usable material since the beginning of the summit process. Indonesia declared it had eliminated all of its fresh HEU and planned to get rid of all its HEU in 2016. China announced the opening of its nuclear security center of excellence. Since 2010, China has worked with the United States to build the center as a hub for training, bilateral and multilateral best practice exchanges, and technology demonstration.7 The center will help China test and strengthen its own nuclear security measures and will Research reactor fuel made from highly enriched uranium is prepared for removal from Vietnam on June 29, 2013. Sandor Tozser/IAEA This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms provide a venue for cooperation with others in the region and beyond.
  • 12. The White House reported that 20 states hosted or invited peer review missions through the IAEA or from other states. Many other states announced that they had strengthened nuclear security laws or regulations, upgraded physical security, or updated the list of threats against which their nuclear facilities must be protected. Continuing the dialogue. An important new gift basket created a nuclear security contact group that will convene annually on the margins of the IAEA General Conference. The contact group will carry forward the consultative element of the summit process, providing a forum for senior government officials to meet and discuss current efforts, evaluate progress on previously made commitments, and identify future priorities. If states buy into the idea of the contact group and take action to strengthen it, the group, whose membership is open to states that did not participate in the summits, could be an important vehicle for sustaining international nuclear security cooperation.
  • 13. The summit also produced statements on bilateral nuclear security discussions between key countries. For example, China and the United States agreed to increase cooperation on nuclear terrorism prevention and conduct an annual dialogue on nuclear security. In addition, summit participants agreed to action plans for the IAEA, the United Nations, Interpol, the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Destruction, and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT). The plans outline the roles these organizations will play in supporting ongoing nuclear security discussions now that the summits have ended. Gaps and Missed Opportunities In their communique, the participants in the 2016 summit pledged to "continuously strengthen nuclear security at national, regional, and global levels."8 Striving for continuous improvement is the right way to frame the challenge of providing effective and sustainable nuclear security. Unfortunately, summit participants missed important opportunities to give
  • 14. added momentum to the effort. The following issues continue to require attention. Still no global standard for nuclear security. Although the amended CPPNM establishes general security principles, it lacks specific standards or guidelines and applies only to materials in civilian use. UN Security Council Resolution 1540 requires states to provide "appropriate effective" protection for all materials, among other relevant measures, but does not specify what constitutes appropriate effective protection.9 IAEA recommendations, to which dozens of states have now publicly subscribed, provide somewhat more specificity, but their implementation is voluntary. Although the summit process certainly helped produce a shared understanding of the importance of nuclear security, it fell short of producing a consensus on a meaningful minimum global standard. If a global standard was beyond reach during the summits, a public commitment to stringent nuclear security measures among the states
  • 15. possessing the biggest stocks of HEU and plutonium would have been a consequential step. Although China's and India's endorsements of the initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation was an important development, Russia's absence from the summit and Russia's and Pakistan's refusal to sign that statement is a significant gap in the patchwork of nuclear security commitments. Furthermore, the summit outcomes were not comprehensive. Although the summit communiques explicitly covered "all" nuclear material, most of the concrete progress from the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for an April 1 plenary session of the nuclear security summit in Washington. During the summit, China and India joined an initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for an April 1 plenary session of the nuclear security summit in Washington. During the summit, China and India joined an initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation. Saul Loeb/Getty Images
  • 16. This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (left) talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) at the summit on April 1. meetings focused on civilian materials, largely ignoring the roughly four-fifths of the world's remaining HEU and plutonium that is controlled by military organizations.10 A mixed picture on implementation. Nuclear facilities in many countries still are not protected against the full range of threats. States with large stocks of nuclear weapons-usable material still contend with corruption and extremism.11 On the ground, security upgrades remain urgently needed in many spots around the world. One indication of the extent of the inconsistent application of physical protection measures is that, after all of
  • 17. the high-level attention since the 2010 summit, at least six countries—Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden—still do not have armed guards at their nuclear facilities.12 The collapse of U.S.-Russian bilateral cooperation is particularly alarming. Without Russian and U.S. commitments to rebuilding their bilateral nuclear security relationship, it will be impossible for the two states that possess roughly 80 percent of the world's weapons-usable nuclear material to reassure one another that their nuclear security is sound. Slippage of consolidation and minimization goals. The Obama administration put laudable effort into cleaning out HEU and plutonium from many countries and minimizing the use of HEU elsewhere. Yet, political obstacles will likely make substantial additional progress more difficult than in the past, in particular for the hundreds of kilograms of HEU in Belarus and South Africa. Conversion of
  • 18. additional HEU-fueled research reactors to use low-enriched uranium fuel, particularly but not only in Russia, is hampered by technical challenges and political inattention. Moreover, summit participants failed to reach agreement, even in principle, on stopping or reversing the buildup of separated plutonium.13 Continuing culture of complacency in some countries. The summits put the notion of nuclear security culture on the agenda for many countries where it previously had been neglected. Nevertheless, workers, managers, policy officials, and even national leaders in many places still dismiss the threat of terrorist theft or sabotage as remote or implausible.14 Many organizations handling nuclear weapons, HEU, or separated plutonium do not have specific programs focused on strengthening security culture. The IAEA has still not published its nuclear security culture self-assessment
  • 19. guide.15 The summit process helped spark interest in strengthening security culture, but much more work is needed. Need for more-robust channels for dialogue. The political momentum created by the summits will not likely be re-created through other organizations, although the contact group, IAEA ministerial meetings, a review conference for the amended CPPNM, and other forums certainly will provide important opportunities for discussion, reporting on progress, and further cooperation. The recent summit's action plans did not significantly expand or strengthen the global nuclear security architecture. The IAEA has assumed greater responsibility for convening high-level discussions on nuclear security and has intensified its nuclear security efforts since the first summit. Yet, the agency still deals only with civilian material and has no authority to require states o o 2 H JJ
  • 20. O O □ $ 11 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (left) talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) at the summit on April 1. Alex Wong/Getty Images This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms to take any action on nuclear security.16 The nuclear security capacities of the UN and Interpol are even less robust, and the multilateral groupings, the GICNT and Global Partnership, remain unchanged by the action plans the summit participants produced. Finally, Russia's absence from the recent summit may bode ill for out of reach for the present. Yet, a group of states like-minded emanating from within the contact group or a
  • 21. special working group of the GICNT could develop a set of principles and guidelines that they pledge to apply to all stocks of nuclear weapons, HEU, and plutonium and invite other states to join them. Such a commitment that are needed. The United States should expand nuclear security cooperation with China, India, and Pakistan, sharing additional information on security arrangements without revealing sensitive information that would increase vulnerability to terrorist attack. The United States also will need to make a priority of discussions with a In the interest of promoting cooperation, the summits frequently focused on pluckJng low-hanging fruit. < □ O h _j o cr h z
  • 22. o o (/) 12 ! the successful implementation of the summit action plans. Moscow's leadership and cooperation in all of the organizations referenced in the action plans will be necessary for many key nuclear security steps. Progress in the Post-Summit Era In the interest of promoting cooperation, the summits frequently focused on plucking low-hanging fruit, while failing to advance more-difficult discussions of threats and persistent challenges. Governments must focus not only on what is most feasible but also on what is most urgently needed in light of the evolving threats they face.17 Nuclear security efforts should have a clear goal: ensuring that all nuclear weapons and the materials that could be used to make them, wherever they are in
  • 23. the world, are effectively and sustainably secured against the full range of threats that terrorists and thieves might plausibly pose.18 Building an international consensus around such a goal will be a major challenge for the next U.S. president and for like-minded leaders. The 2016 summit communique alludes to the goal of continuous improvement. Achieving that goal will require work on several fronts. Here are some of the most important areas of focus.19 Building up the commitment to stringent nuclear security standards. A legally binding set of international standards for nuclear security is unfortunately should include the provision of well trained, well-equipped on-site guard forces; comprehensive measures to protect against insider threats; control and accounting systems that can detect and localize any theft of weapons-usable nuclear material; protections against cyberthreats that are
  • 24. integrated with other nuclear security measures; effective nuclear security rules and regulations and independent regulators capable of enforcing them; regular and realistic testing of nuclear security systems, including force-on force exercises; a robust program for enhancing security culture; and regular assessments of the evolving threat of theft or sabotage. Following the example of the initial group of adherents, the accumulation of international support for more-comprehensive standards could grow over time. In the meantime, leading states that are bound by the amended CPPNM should push to universalize the treaty, and the states that have joined the initiative on strengthening nuclear security implementation initiative should encourage others to commit to implement IAEA recommendations and accept peer review. Implementing effective and sustainable security measures on the ground. Commitments to stringent standards are meaningful only if they translate
  • 25. into real improvements. Bilateral cooperation can help spur the actions wide range of countries on enhancing their own nuclear security, providing resources when needed. Despite tensions over Ukraine and other issues, Russia and the United States should agree to a package of cooperation that includes nuclear energy initiatives, which are of particular interest to Russia, and nuclear security initiatives, which are of particular interest to the United States. Although it is unlikely in the current political environment, one mechanism for achieving this goal would be to restart the U.S.-Russian Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Security Working Group, which facilitated dialogue from 2009 until it was suspended in 2014 because of tensions between the two countries. Cooperation should no longer be based on a donor recipient relationship but on an equal partnership with ideas and resources coming from both sides.20 Increasing efforts to reduce the number of
  • 26. sites where nuclear weapons and weapons usable materials are stored. Today there are fewer locations where HEU and plutonium can be stolen because of removals motivated by the summit process. The consolidation process must continue. Stringent security requirements can help to incentivize the process of consolidation, as can well-funded programs for conversion of HEU-fueled reactors and removal of material. Russia and the United States, as the countries whose nuclear This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms A member of the security force at the Chinon nuclear plant patrols the plant site near Avoine, France, on January 6, 2012. Data from a recent report indicate that at least six countries do not require their nuclear facilities to have armed guards. stockpiles are dispersed in the largest number of buildings and bunkers, should each develop a national-level plan for accomplishing their military and civilian nuclear objectives with the smallest practicable number of locations.
  • 27. The United States and other interested countries should ensure that plutonium and HEU bulk processing facilities do not spread to other countries or expand in number or scale of operations and that no more plutonium is separated than is used, bringing global plutonium stocks down over time. Establishing a nuclear security culture that does not tolerate complacency about threats and vulnerabilities. Every country with relevant materials and facilities should have a program in place to assess and strengthen security culture, and all nuclear managers and security-relevant staff should receive regular information, appropriate to their role, on evolving threats to nuclear security. At the same time, interested countries should launch initiatives to combat complacency, including a shared database of security incidents and lessons learned; detailed reports and briefings on the nuclear terrorism threat; discussions among intelligence agencies, on which most governments rely for information about
  • 28. the threats to their country; and an expanded program of nuclear theft and terrorism exercises. Building up channels for dialogue. Countries must continue to share information and devise plans to meet current nuclear security challenges. The IAEA ministerial-level meetings on nuclear security will provide an important forum. If parties to the amended CPPNM elect to meet every five years to review progress, this process could create important opportunities to place high-level pressure on states to step up nuclear security commitments and implementation. A more comprehensive scope of cooperation, including on military materials, could take place in multilateral forums. The GICNT, co chaired by Russia and the United States and still valued by both, consists of more than 80 states committed to the group's statement of principles, which includes improving measures that reduce the risk of nuclear theft
  • 29. such as accounting, control, and protection of nuclear and radiological materials. The group has not focused on these preventive approaches so far, but it should in the future.21 This summer represents the GICNT's 10th anniversary, which would be an excellent time to announce the creation of a GICNT working group focused specifically on strengthening security for nuclear materials and facilities. The GICNT could also be a useful forum for Russia and the United States to expand nuclear security cooperation. The contact group created at the nuclear security summit this year holds promise for facilitating dialogue, n o 3J O r O □
  • 30. 5 13 A member of the security force at the Chinon nuclear plant patrols the plant site near Avoine, France, on January 6, 2012. Data from a recent report indicate that at least six countries do not require their nuclear facilities to have armed guards. Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Khammar Mrabit, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Division of Nuclear Security, speaks on June 12, 2014, at a meeting in Vienna on promoting entry into force of the 2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material. sharing information, and germinating joint activities. Its openness to all IAEA members has the advantage of potentially attracting states beyond the ring of past summit participants. Its size and heterogeneity, however, may limit the depth and effectiveness of the discussions. The contact group should select an executive committee of
  • 31. member state representatives—perhaps former summit hosts plus Russia, if it chooses to join—to establish and coordinate its agenda for discussion. Finally, summit-level nuclear security meetings could be continued on the side of Group of 20 meetings, perhaps once every four years. This would sustain the kind of executive-level political attention to nuclear security that summits provided. The nuclear security summits periodically pressed participants to commit themselves to new and stronger measures for preventing nuclear terrorism. They facilitated a process of stocktaking and reporting on the concrete actions participants had taken. Moreover, they were a vehicle for forging stronger international collaboration on bolstering nuclear security around the globe. States must continue to build on the progress they made through the summit process. If they do, the 2016 summit will mark the beginning, rather than the end, of a new era of continuous improvement in nuclear security. ENDNOTES
  • 32. 1. For a comprehensive assessment of progress in fulfilling commitments from the summits prior to 2016, see Michelle Cann, Kelsey Davenport, and Jenna Parker, "The Nuclear Security Summit: Progress Report on Joint Statements," Arms Control Association and Partnership for Global Security, March 2015, https://www.armscontrol.org/ reports/2015/The-Nuclear-Security-Summit Progress-Report-on-Joint-Statements. 2. The three countries that did not join gift baskets were Gabon, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. For a list of gift baskets and joint statements from the 2016 summit, see "2016 Washington Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, n.d., http://nuclearsecuritymatters. belfercenter.org/2016-washington-summit. 3. "Strengthening Nuclear Security
  • 33. Implementation," March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/documents/ organization/235508.pdf. Thirty-five countries signed the 2014 statement. Jordan joined in late 2015. 4. See Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, "India Khammar Mrabit, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Division of Nuclear Security, speaks on June 12, 2014, at a meeting in Vienna on promoting entry into force of the 2005 amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material. Dean Calma/(AEA ENDNOTES 1. For a comprehensive assessment of progress in fulfilling commitments from the summits prior to 2016, see Michelle Cann, Kelsey Davenport, and Jenna Parker, "The Nuclear Security Summit: Progress Report on Joint Statements," Arms Control Association
  • 34. and Partnership for Global Security, March 2015, https://www.armscontrol.org/ reports/2015/The-Nuclear-Security-Summit Progress-Report-on-Joint-Statements. 2. The three countries that did not join gift baskets were Gabon, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. For a list of gift baskets and joint statements from the 2016 summit, see "2016 Washington Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, n.d., http://nuclearsecuritymatters. belfercenter.org/2016-washington-summit. 3. "Strengthening Nuclear Security Implementation," March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/documents/ organization/235508.pdf. Thirty-five countries signed the 2014 statement. Jordan joined in late 2015. 4. See Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, "India
  • 35. This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms and the Nuclear Security Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, April 26, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/ blog/india-and-nuclear-security-summ; Hui Zhang, "China Makes Significant Nuclear Security Pledges at 2016 Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, April 8, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/blog/ china-makes-significant-nuclear-security pledges-2016-summit. 5. For background on the amended Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, see "Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
  • 36. n.d., https://www.iaea.org/publications/ documents/conventions/convention-physical protection-nuclear-material. For an argument that the review conferences envisioned in the amendment could help drive nuclear security progress, see Jonathan Herbach and Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, "More Work to Do: A Pathway for Future Progress on Strengthening Nuclear Security," Arms Control Today, October 2015. 6. "Joint Statement by the Leaders of Japan and the United States on Contributions to Global Minimization of Nuclear Material," April 1, 2016, http://nuclearsecuritymatters. belfercenter.org/files/nuclearmatters/files/ joint_statement_by_the_leaders_of_japan_ and_the_united_states_on_contrib.pdf. 7. Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, "U.S.-China Joint Statement on
  • 37. Nuclear Security Cooperation," March 31, 2016, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press office/2016/03/31/us-china-joint-statement nuclear-security-cooperation. 8. "Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communique," April 1, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter. org/files/nuclearmatters/files/nuclear_ security_summit_2016_communique. pdf?m=1460469255. 9. See Matthew Bunn, "Appropriate Effective Nuclear Security and Accounting— What Is It?" (presentation, "Appropriate Effective" Material Accounting and Physical Protection—Joint Global Initiative/UNSCR 1540 Workshop," Nashville, TN, July 18, 2008), http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/ files/bunn-1540-appropriate-effective50.pdf.
  • 38. 10. For a discussion of security for military materials, see Des Browne, Richard Lugar, and Sam Nunn, "Bridging the Military Nuclear Materials Gap," Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), 2015, http://www.nti.org/media/ pdfs/NTI_report_2015_e_version.pdf. The 2016 summit communique reaffirmed that states had a fundamental responsibility "to maintain at all times effective security of all nuclear and other radioactive material, including nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons." See "Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communique." 11. For a more complete discussion of the threats some countries with nuclear material face, see Matthew Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline?" Belfer Center for
  • 39. Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2016, pp. 39-52, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/ PreventingNuclearTerrorism-Web.pdf. 12. For country information on physical protection, see the 2016 NTI Nuclear Security Index for sabotage, http://ntiindex.org/ wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-NTI Index-Data-2016.03.25.zip. Belgium has only recently added armed guards to its nuclear facilities. The Swedish regulator has ordered that facilities post armed guards by February 2017. See Steven Mufson, "Brussels Attacks Stoke Fears About Security of Belgian Nuclear Facilities," The Washington Post, March 25, 2016; "Swedish Regulator Orders Tighter Security at Nuclear Plants," Reuters, February 5, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/
  • 40. sweden-nuclear-security-idUSL8N15K3SS. 13. The 2014 summit communique states, "We encourage States to minimise their stocks of [highly enriched uranium] and to keep their stockpile of separated plutonium to the minimum level, both as consistent with national requirements." "The Hague Nuclear Security Summit Communique," March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/ documents/organization/237002.pdf. In 2016, there was no mention of plutonium in the communique. 14. Matthew Bunn and Eben Harrell surveyed nuclear experts in states with nuclear weapons-usable material and found that some respondents did not find certain threats credible, despite extensive evidence to the contrary. See Matthew Bunn and Eben
  • 41. Harrell, "Threat Perceptions and Drivers of Change in Nuclear Security Around the World: Results of a Survey," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/ surveypaperfulltext.pdf. 15. IAEA, "Self-Assessment of Nuclear Security Culture in Facilities and Activities That Use Nuclear and/or Radioactive Material: Draft Technical Guidance," July 2, 2014, http:// www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/security/security series-drafts/tech-guidance/nst026.pdf. 16. See Trevor Findlay, "Beyond Nuclear Summitry: The Role of the IAEA in Nuclear Security Diplomacy After 2016," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014,
  • 42. http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/ beyondnuclearsummitryfullpaper.pdf. 17. For a discussion of how the threat of nuclear terrorism has evolved over time, see Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 14-26, 133-143. 18. Ibid., p. 96. 19. For the recommendations on which this section draws, see Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 96-133. 20. For a more complete description of the end of nuclear security cooperation, see Nickolas Roth, "Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation: Rebuilding Equality, Mutual Benefit, and Respect," Deep Cuts Commission, June 2015, http://deepcuts. org/files/pdf/Deep_Cuts_Issue_Brief4_US Russian_Nuclear_Security_Cooperationl.pdf.
  • 43. 21. Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), "Fact Sheet," n.d., http:// www.gicnt.org/content/downloads/sop/ GICNT_Fact_Sheet_June2015.pdf. Although the GICNT terms of reference state that its activities do not involve "military nuclear programs of the nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons," the group's statement of principles, which is the only document GICNT members are required to endorse, contains no such exclusion. See Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State, "Terms of Reference for Implementation and Assessment," November 20, 2006, http://2001-2009.state. gov/t/isn/rls/other/76421.htm; GICNT, "Statement of Principles," 2015, http://gicnt. org/content/downloads/sop/Statement_of_
  • 44. Principles.pdf. o O z H 3J o o D $ 15 and the Nuclear Security Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, April 26, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/ blog/india-and-nuclear-security-summ; Hui Zhang, "China Makes Significant Nuclear Security Pledges at 2016 Summit," Nuclear Security Matters, April 8, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter.org/blog/ china-makes-significant-nuclear-security pledges-2016-summit.
  • 45. 5. For background on the amended Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, see "Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), n.d., https://www.iaea.org/publications/ documents/conventions/convention-physical protection-nuclear-material. For an argument that the review conferences envisioned in the amendment could help drive nuclear security progress, see Jonathan Herbach and Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, "More Work to Do: A Pathway for Future Progress on Strengthening Nuclear Security," Arms Control Today, October 2015. 6. "Joint Statement by the Leaders of Japan and the United States on Contributions to Global Minimization of Nuclear Material," April 1, 2016, http://nuclearsecuritymatters.
  • 46. belfercenter.org/files/nuclearmatters/files/ joint_statement_by_the_leaders_of_japan_ and_the_united_states_on_contrib.pdf. 7. Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, "U.S.-China Joint Statement on Nuclear Security Cooperation," March 31, 2016, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press office/2016/03/31/us-china-joint-statement nuclear-security-cooperation. 8. "Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communiqué," April 1, 2016, http:// nuclearsecuritymatters.belfercenter. org/files/nuclearmatters/files/nuclear_ security_summit_2016_communique. pdf?m=1460469255. 9. See Matthew Bunn, "Appropriate Effective Nuclear Security and Accounting— What Is It?" (presentation, "Appropriate
  • 47. Effective" Material Accounting and Physical Protection—Joint Global Initiative/UNSCR 1540 Workshop," Nashville, TN, July 18, 2008), http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/ files/bunn-1540-appropriate-ef fective50.pdf. 10. For a discussion of security for military materials, see Des Browne, Richard Lugar, and Sam Nunn, "Bridging the Military Nuclear Materials Gap," Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), 2015, http://www.nti.org/media/ pdfs/NTI_report_2015_e_version.pdf. The 2016 summit communiqué reaffirmed that states had a fundamental responsibility "to maintain at all times effective security of all nuclear and other radioactive material, including nuclear materials used in nuclear weapons." See "Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communiqué."
  • 48. 11. For a more complete discussion of the threats some countries with nuclear material face, see Matthew Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline?" Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2016, pp. 39-52, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/ PreventingNuclearTerrorism-Web.pdf. 12. For country information on physical protection, see the 2016 NTI Nuclear Security Index for sabotage, http://ntiindex.org/ wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-NTI Index-Data-2016.03.25.zip. Belgium has only recently added armed guards to its nuclear facilities. The Swedish regulator has ordered that facilities post armed guards by February 2017. See Steven Mufson, "Brussels Attacks
  • 49. Stoke Fears About Security of Belgian Nuclear Facilities," The Washington Post, March 25, 2016; "Swedish Regulator Orders Tighter Security at Nuclear Plants," Reuters, February 5, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/ sweden-nuclear-security-idUSL8N15K3SS. 13. The 2014 summit communiqué states, "We encourage States to minimise their stocks of [highly enriched uranium] and to keep their stockpile of separated plutonium to the minimum level, both as consistent with national requirements." "The Hague Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué," March 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/ documents/organization/237002.pdf. In 2016, there was no mention of plutonium in I the communiqué. 14. Matthew Bunn and Eben Harrell surveyed nuclear experts in states with
  • 50. nuclear weapons-usable material and found that some respondents did not find certain threats credible, despite extensive evidence to the contrary. See Matthew Bunn and Eben Harrell, "Threat Perceptions and Drivers of Change in Nuclear Security Around the World: Results of a Survey," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/ surveypaperfulltext.pdf. 15. IAEA, "Self-Assessment of Nuclear Security Culture in Facilities and Activities That Use Nuclear and/or Radioactive Material: Draft Technical Guidance," July 2, 2014, http:// www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/security/security series-drafts/tech-guidance/nst026.pdf. ; 16. See Trevor Findlay, "Beyond Nuclear
  • 51. Summitry: The Role of the IAEA in Nuclear Security Diplomacy After 2016," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 2014, http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/ beyondnuclearsummitryfullpaper.pdf. 17. For a discussion of how the threat of nuclear terrorism has evolved over time, see Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 14-26, 133-143. 18. Ibid., p. 96. 19. For the recommendations on which this section draws, see Bunn et al., "Preventing Nuclear Terrorism," pp. 96-133. 20. For a more complete description of the end of nuclear security cooperation, see Nickolas Roth, "Russian Nuclear Security Cooperation: Rebuilding Equality,
  • 52. Mutual Benefit, and Respect," Deep Cuts Commission, June 2015, http://deepcuts. org/files/pdf/Deep_Cuts_Issue_Brief4_US Russian_Nuclear_Security_Cooperationl.pdf. 21. Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), "Fact Sheet," n.d., http:// www.gicnt.org/content/downloads/sop/ GICNT_Fact_Sheet_June2015.pdf. Although the GICNT terms of reference state that its activities do not involve "military nuclear programs of the nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons," the group's statement of principles, which is the only document GICNT members are required to endorse, contains no such exclusion. See Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State, "Terms of Reference
  • 53. for Implementation and Assessment," November 20, 2006, http://2001-2009.state. gov/t/isn/rls/other/76421.htm; GICNT, "Statement of Principles," 2015, http://gicnt. org/content/downloads/sop/Statement_of_ Principles.pdf. This content downloaded from 131.94.16.10 on Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:39:36 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contentsp. 8p. 9p. 10p. 11p. 12p. 13p. 14p. 15Issue Table of ContentsArms Control TODAY, Vol. 46, No. 5 (JUNE 2016) pp. 1-36Front MatterFOCUS: Obama's India Nuclear Blind Spot [pp. 3-3]InBRIEF [pp. 4-4]News Briefs [pp. 5-6]On the Calendar [pp. 6-6]Reports of Note [pp. 7-7]A New Era for Nuclear Security [pp. 8-15]Just Leave It: NATO's Nuclear Weapons Policy At the Warsaw Summit [pp. 16- 21]Conventional Arms Control In Europe: Decline, Disarray, And the Need for Reinvention [pp. 22-25]InThe NEWSTHE WORLDMomentum Builds for Nuclear Ban Treaty [pp. 26- 28]Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Initiative Turns 10 [pp. 28-30]ASIA AND AUSTRALIANorth Korea Tests Land, Sea Missiles [pp. 31-32]China Expands Missile Arsenal [pp. 32-33]THE UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICASObama Addresses Hiroshima Experience [pp. 34-34]EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNIONRomania Missile Defense Site Activated [pp. 35- 35]GETTING TO KNOW: Greg Thielmann [pp. 36-36]Back Matter DocumentationProfit MaximizationAuthorDatePurposeChoose between two sales scenarios to determine the one that
  • 54. maximizes Profit for iPhone App and use Goal Seek Scenario SheetApp for iPhoneEstimate of Annual profit for year 1Scenario 1Scenario 2Goal SeekRecommendation (Scenario 1 or Scenario 2)AssumptionsQuantity Sold for Goal SeekSales PriceQuantity SoldFixed CostsDeveloper costs$30,000.00$30,000.00$30,000.00Advertising $24,000.00$24,000.00$24,000.00Maintainence and Support$12,000.00$12,000.00$12,000.00Total Fixed CostsVariable CostsApple's commission as percent of Sales price30%30%30%Variable Cost per unitTotal Variable CostsBreakeven and Profit Contribution MarginQuantity to be sold for BreakevenSales RevenueNet Profit &F &A &D