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Nuclear Spent Fuel Strategies

The Mansfield Foundation convened a workshop on “Aligning Security Concerns and Spent Fuel Strategies,” involving 18 engineers and political scientists from Korea, Japan, and the United States.  The workshop, held in Zurich, Switzerland from July 21-24, addressed the...

U.S.-Japan Space Participants featured in Japan Spotlight

In January 2018, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation convened the sixth meeting of the U.S.-Japan Space Forum in Washington, D.C. The group of American and Japanese experts from the private sector, academia, and government has met regularly since 2014 to address...

Meeting 6, Washington, D.C., February 2018

The sixth meeting of the U.S.-Japan Space Forum in Washington last week concluded with a public seminar that met one of the group’s key goals — facilitating communication between the science and space policy communities and the security, armed services, and...

Space in the Abe-Trump Era: New Threats, New Actors

On February 1, the Mansfield Foundation partnered with the George Washington University Space Policy Institute and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership on a public seminar. Members of the U.S. Japan Space Forum discussed the emerging and evolving threats...