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• Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) neurologist Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD , has been named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Martha Bridge Denckla Award from the Child Neurology Society.
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  Children's Hospital Los Angeles Neurologist Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, earns the Martha Bridge Denckla Award from the Child Neurology Society.
• A Board-certified pediatric neurologist, Dr. Jeste has authored and contributed to more than 200 journal papers, editorials, chapters and abstracts.
• She completed an internship, residency and a fellowship in behavioral child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

• Centre for Teacher Accreditation, CENTA, the world’s largest platform for teachers, is proud to bring the CENTA International Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad (International TPO) to Egypt.
• The finals of International TPO will be held in April 2024 and award Cash Prizes and Scholarships worth EGP 740,000.
• The CENTA Community in Africa comprises over 50,000 teachers, with a rapidly expanding footprint in Egypt.
• Ramya Venkataraman, Founder and CEO, CENTA says, “Bringing the CENTA International Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad to Egypt is about enabling high growth career trajectory for great teachers through local and global career opportunities, financial rewards, and recognition.

• Centre for Teacher Accreditation, CENTA, the world’s largest platform for teachers, is proud to bring the CENTA International Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad (International TPO) to the Philippines.
• The finals of the International TPO will be held in April 2024 and award Cash Prizes and Scholarships worth PHP 1,350,000.
• Notably, over 15,000 teachers from the Philippines are already part of the CENTA platform.
• Ramya Venkataraman, Founder and CEO, CENTA says, “Bringing the CENTA International Teaching Professionals’ Olympiad to the Philippines is about enabling high growth career trajectory for great teachers through local and global career opportunities, financial rewards, and recognition.

• In August 2023, nuclear weapons researchers Matt Korda and Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists reported it was increasingly apparent the United States was upgrading its Lakenheath military base in the United Kingdom.
• This base hosted American nuclear weapons in the past, which raises questions about whether they’re returning.
• Through these arrangements, the U.S. has stationed some of its nuclear weapons on its allies’ territory since the early days of the Cold War.

Hosting American nukes

• At its height in the 1960s, 13 states hosted American nuclear weapons at the same time, including Canada.
• Yet in the last few decades, this number has gradually dwindled to only five NATO members: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
• The nuclear weapons hosted by the five participants are B61 gravity bombs and can be delivered by aircraft, such as German and Italian Tornados, F-22s and the newer American F-35s.

High international threat environment

• Russia’s war against Ukraine has fundamentally altered the international security environment.
• Whereas the post-Cold War security environment had made NATO members question the relevance of nuclear sharing, recent events have reignited the debate on the alliance’s nuclear capabilities.
• Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, that is no longer the case: consensus among nuclear sharing participants has been strengthened.
• In a forthcoming research article in International Affairs, we surmise this kind of reinforcement or expansion of nuclear sharing could be the result of the Ukraine war and the changing threat perception of NATO members, which has slowed down the political momentum of anti-nuclear voices.

Nuclear sharing remains contentious

• Ever since the 2000s, there has been considerable pressure coming from citizens in NATO nations to withdraw from nuclear sharing.
• Much like any other political arrangement, however, NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangement can be contentious and subject to renegotiations, as shown by Poland’s demands to also host American nuclear weapons.

Émile Lambert-Deslandes receives funding from the Department of National Defence's MINDS program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Stéfanie von Hlatky has received funding from the NATO Science For Peace and Security Programme for research on Women, Peace, and Security.