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Preventing Nuclear Meltdown:
Managing Decentralization of Russia's Nuclear Complex

October 2004 270 pages Hardback ISBN: 0 7546 4257 7 $79.95 To Order: Contact Ashgate Publishing. View the PDF flyer for Preventing Nuclear Meltdown. (PDF format, 678k)

By James Clay Moltz, Vladimir A. Orlov, and Adam N. Stulberg

"This book is a significant contribution to the field of Russian studies, political science, and economics, and will be of considerable interest to scholars in the field of nuclear proliferation. The authors—Russian and American—are all knowledgeable and many have direct experience in the nuclear field. The scholarship is of the highest quality, backed by authoritative sources. No other full-length work examines the nuclear issue in the context of Russia's regions. Preventing Nuclear Meltdown is a real contribution to our understanding of Russia's evolving…federalism."
--Charles E. Ziegler, University of Louisville

The decline in central financing for Russia's nuclear complex and the known interest of terrorist groups in acquiring fissile material and technologies, has made the state of Russia's farflung nuclear enterprises a pressing international issue. In this important volume, a group of leading US and Russian policy experts—drawing on extensive interviews with officials, facility personnel, and analysts in Russia's regions—explores the intersecting problems of Russian nuclear insecurity and decentralization, including the growing influence of regional, political and economic forces.

The work presents insights into both nuclear safety issues and post-Soviet intra-agency governance, as well as detailed case studies of critical nuclear regions: the Far East, the Urals, Siberia, and the Volga area. The volume also offers major new findings on the interface linking Russia's evolving center-periphery relations, its ailing nuclear facilities, and the role played by foreign assistance providers.

Contents:

• Introduction: Russia's nuclear regions, James Clay Moltz.
• FEDERAL NUCLEAR AGENCIES AND THE REGIONS:
  • Center-periphery relations and Russia's nuclear infrastructure, Dmitry Evstafiev and Vladimir A. Orlov;
  • Russian nuclear regionalism at the Federal Center, Nikolai Sokov and Adam N. Stulberg;
  • Minatom's regional strategy, Sonia Ben Ouagrham;
  • The military, the regions, and nuclear weapons, Michael Jasinski.
• CASE STUDIES OF RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR REGIONS:
  • Nuclear issues in the Far Eastern Federal Okrug, Cristina Chuen;
  • Nuclear issues in the Volga Federal Okrug, Ivan Safranchuk;
  • Nuclear issues in the Urals Federal Okrug, Elena Sokova;
  • Nuclear issues in the Siberian Federal Okrug, Dmitry Kovchegin.
• THE EXPERIENCE OF US ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND CONCLUSIONS:
  • The implementation of US nonproliferation assistance programs in Russia's regions, Michael Jasinski and Charles Thornton;
  • Nuclear decentralization in Russia: lessons learned and new directions, Adam N. Stulberg; Index.

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