Ta Minh Tuan

Ta is an assistant to Vietnam's deputy prime minister and an associate professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. He earned his doctorate in political science in 2002 from the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2011, he was a fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asia-Pacific, an initiative of the Council for Security Cooperation. His research interests include Vietnam's politics and foreign policy, US foreign policy, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy.

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Articles by Ta Minh Tuan

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
25 October 2012

Agreement, disagreement, and a path forward

Ta Minh Tuan

To this point, authors in this Roundtable have expressed markedly different levels of enthusiasm for international fuel banks. Ramamurti Rajaraman has generally supported the idea of fuel banks.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
9 October 2012

National decisions, national interest

Ta Minh Tuan

In my first Roundtable essay, I analyzed a number of problems that might face developing nations that gain access to low-enriched uranium through an international fuel bank.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
28 August 2012

Is a nuclear fuel bank a good investment?

Ta Minh TuanKhaled ToukanRamamurti Rajaraman

Among the fundamental challenges facing the nonproliferation project is that highly enriched uranium suitable for nuclear weapons can be produced in the same facilities that make low-enriched uranium for civilian reactors.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
28 August 2012
Middle East

Calculating the value of an international fuel bank

Ta Minh Tuan

In recent years the idea of establishing an international nuclear fuel bank has gained a lot of attention, with the United States and other Western nations promoting the concept and trying hard to make it reality.