Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS) is an independent, non-governmental think-tank, established on the initiative from 2008. The headquarter of the Center is based in Moscow. The main goal of CENESS is to promote independent, unbiased, systematic, and professional analyses related to nuclear nonproliferation and atomic energy with a special emphasis on international cooperation of Russia in these areas.

Another goal of the Center is to facilitate networking among experts, who are doing atomic energy and nuclear nonproliferation related studies in academia and independent think-tanks in Russia and abroad, through organizing international workshops, round tables, and conferences.

CENESS is the only nongovernmental think-tank dealing with nonproliferation issues, which is represented in the Advisory Board under the Security Council of the Russian Federation. One of the key CENESS projects is publishing an independent Russian journal devoted to atomic energy and nuclear nonproliferation - Nuclear Club journal (Yaderny Klub). The journal is published biyearly.