The MNISED project was established in 1990 (formerly the Monitoring CIS Environmental Developments Project) to provide accurate information about environmental developments in the USSR. Since then the project has narrowed its focus to environmental issues associated with security concerns, especially nuclear, in the Newly Independent States.
Currently the primary project activity involves collecting information on environmental and health problems associated with nuclear weapons, missiles, and the civilian nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union. This open media collection supports faculty and student research and academic needs at the Monterey Institute and helps maintain the NIS Nuclear Profiles Database. Related environmental topics in the database include radioactive waste storage, submarine dismantlement, and spent fuel reprocessing
In 1995, MNISED discontinued publication of its semiannual journal NIS
Environmental Watch. Back issues 1-7 are available upon request.
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Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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