• Reducing the Threat Posed by Russian Nuclear Submarines
  Research by CNS's NIS Nonproliferation Program (NISNP).
  Updated: December 4, 2002

• Ghost of Russia's K-19 Haunts Us
  The K-19 is still with us, one of 190 decommissioned Soviet nuclear-powered submarines rusting at their piers. As many as 100 of them still have nuclear fuel on board, risking a reactor incident or diversion of material for a terrorist radiation weapon or "dirty bomb."
  An op-ed by Cristina Chuen for the Los Angeles Times.
  Created: July 19, 2002

• Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors - Proliferation Risks
  For the past 10 years, high-ranking officials from Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom) and Rosenergoatom have been expressing unequivocal support for construction of floating nuclear power plants in remote areas of the Russian Far North and East. Construction of Russia's first floating nuclear power plants is moving ahead.
  Research Story of the Week by Eduard Fesko.
  Created: June 26, 2002

• Russia to Lease Two Nuclear Submarines to India
  Research Story of the Week.
  Created: February 18, 2002

• Nuclear Submarine Dismantlement
  The arms race left Russia with a dangerous legacy: more than 100 nuclear submarines that must be dismantled and disposed of without causing environmental damage or increasing proliferation risks. An issue brief by Cristina Chuen and James Clay Moltz for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Created: August 2001

• Report that Kursk Carried Nuclear Weapons Unlikely
  Updated: 10 April 2001
  Created: 6 April 2001

• Special Report: The Kursk Accident
  "On Saturday, 12 August during Northern Fleet training exercises in the Barents Sea the Russian nuclear-powered guided missile (SSGN) submarine Kursk sank in approximately 100 meters of water with over 100 crew members aboard."
  Updated: 22 August 2000

• The Kursk Was In Dangerous Company
  An Op-Ed by James Clay Moltz for the New York Times.
  Created: 30 August 2000

• Kursk Stats
  The Kursk is a Russian Project 949A Antey-class [NATO Name "Oscar II"] nuclear-powered guided missile submarine (SSGN).

• A Tragic, 118-Count Indictment of the Russian Nuclear Navy
  An Op-Ed by James Clay Moltz for the Los Angeles Times.
  Updated: 30 August 2000

• Russia: Naval Nuclear Reactors
  From the late 1950s through the end of 1994, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, built a total of 245 nuclear submarines, more than all other nations combined.
  Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Updated: April 26, 2000

• "Dismantling Russia's Nuclear Subs: New Challenges to Non-Proliferation,"
  by James Clay Moltz and Tamara C. Robinson, published in Arms Control Today, June 1999.

• "Komsomolets: A Disaster Waiting to Happen?,"
  by Wendy Wallace published in CIS Environmental Watch, Spring 1992.

• Closing the NPT Loophole on Exports of Naval Propulsion Reactors (35 k)
  by James Clay Moltz, The Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1998.

• Russian Nuclear Submarine Dismantlement and the Naval Fuel Cycle (61 k)
  by James Clay Moltz, The Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2000.

• Presentation on Russian Nuclear Submarine Dismantlement Issues (1.4 Meg)
  by James Clay Moltz. (Includes photos!)

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