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Newly Independent States (NIS) / Russia [1990s]

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Stewards and Custodians: Tomorrow's Crisis for the Russian Nuclear Weapons Complex? [PDF format]
A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.4.
by Oleg Bukharin.
Posted: Fall 1999
Biological Weapons in the Former Soviet Union: An Interview With Dr. Kenneth Alibek [PDF format]
An interview for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.3.
conducted by Jonathan B. Tucker.
Posted: Spring-Summer 1999
Arsenic and Old Weapons: Chemical Weapons Disposal in Russia [PDF format]
A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.3.
by Milton E. Blackwood, Jr.
Posted: Spring-Summer 1999
US-Ukrainian Nuclear Cooperation: Is Kyiv Ready for It? [PDF format]
A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.3.
by Victor Zaborsky.
Posted: Spring-Summer 1999
Ensuring the Security of Russia's Chemical Weapons: A Lab-to-Lab Partnering Program [PDF format]
A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.2.
by Kathleen Vogel.
Posted: Winter 1999
Securing Russian Nuclear Materials: The Need for an Expanded US Response [PDF format]
A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.2.
by Todd Perry.
Posted: Winter 1999
Alternative Approaches to Russian Plutonium Disposition [PDF format]
A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.2.
by Kory W. Budlong Sylvester.
Posted: Winter 1999
Russian Nuclear and Missile Exports to Iran [PDF format]
A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.2.
by Fred Wehling.
Posted: Winter 1999
Uzbekistan's National Security Policy and Nonproliferation [PDF format]
A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.2.
by Kholisa Sodikova.
Posted: Winter 1999
Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project Holds Annual Conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 16-17 November 1998
The conference focused on the topic of "Proliferation Problems and Nonproliferation Initiatives: Approaching the 21st Century." Russian version
Posted: February 1999
On the Creation of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia [PDF format]
A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.1.
by Oumirserik Kasenov.
Posted: Fall 1998
The Moscow Summit
Updated: 31 August 1998
A U.S. NGO Perspective on U.S. - Russian MPC&A Cooperation
A paper by William C. Potter for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Naples, Florida (July 26-30, 1998).
Posted: August 1998
Russia's Relations with NATO: Lessons from the History of the Entente Cordiale
Policy Memo No. 29, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, August 1998
by Nikolai Sokov
Monterey-Moscow Study Group on Russian Chemical Disarmament 1998 Report: Eliminating a Deadly Legacy of the Cold War: Overcoming Obstacles to Russian Chemical Disarmament
Russia inherited more than 40,000 tons of supertoxic chemical weapons from the former Soviet Union. The Monterey-Moscow Study Group report, prepared by ten leading experts from Russia, Europe, and the United States, addresses the technical, political, and financial obstacles facing Russian chemical disarmament and proposes a number of practical approaches for overcoming them.
Posted: July 1998
Nuclear Successor States of the Soviet Union: Status Report on Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material and Export Controls
Nuclear Successor States of the Soviet Union: Status Report on Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material and Export Controls was written jointly by CNS at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and by the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The report includes detailed information on the current status of nuclear weapons, weapons-usable nuclear material, export controls and nonproliferation and disarmament assistance programs in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
Posted: July 1998
Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose?
A paper analyzing Alexander Lebed's claim that 100 suitcase-sized atomic weapons were unaccounted for in the Russian nuclear arsenal.
by Scott Parrish and John Lepingwell
Posted: July 1998

  • Russia's Missile Industry and U.S. Nonproliferation Options [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1998
    by Victor Mizin

  • NIS Nuclear Smuggling since 1995: A Lull in Significant Cases? [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1998
    by Emily Ewell

  • Nonproliferation and Kazakhstani Security Policy [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1998
    by Murat Laumulin
    Nonproliferation Approaches in the Caucasus [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1998
    by Tamara C. Robinson
    The Advantages and Pitfalls of Non-Negotiated Arms Reductions: The Case of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
    Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 21, December 1997
    by Nikolai Sokov

  • Could Norway Trigger a Nuclear War?
    Policy Memo No. 24, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, October 1997
    by Nikolai Sokov

  • 'The Peacemaker' Is a Warning to All
    A September 29, 1997 Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times by Dr. William Potter

  • U.S. Missile Nonproliferation Strategy towards the NIS and China: How Effective? [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1997
    by Victor Zaborsky
    The Indian-Russian Light Water Reactor Deal [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1997
    by R. Adam Moody
    Posted: 1 September 1997
    After Helsinki, The Hard Work
    Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, July/August 1997
    by Nikolai Sokov and Rodney Jones
    Missile Proliferation in East Asia: Arms Control vs. TMD Responses [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1997
    by James Clay Moltz
    Tactical Nuclear Weapons Elimination: Next Step for Arms Control [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1997
    by Nikolai Sokov
    Posted: 1 January 1997

  • Upgrading Security at Nuclear Power Plants in the Newly Independent States [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1997
    by Oleg Bukharin
    Stemming Russia's Plutonium Tide: Cooperative Efforts to Convert Military Reactors [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1997
    by Todd Perry
    Posted: 1 January 1997

  • Next Steps in Nuclear Disarmament: The Challenge of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
    Paper prepared for the Seminar on Nuclear Disarmament After the Indefinite Extension of the NPT, Kyoto, Japan (December 2-5, 1996)
    by Dr. William Potter

  • Nuclear Free: Better than NATO
    A September 30, 1996 article for the Los Angeles Times
    by Dr. William Potter and David Fischer
    Return Nuclear Arms Reductions to the UN
    Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 8, September 1996
    by Nikolai Sokov
    Converting Former Soviet Chemical Weapons Plants [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1996
    by Jonathan B. Tucker
    Posted: 1 September 1996

  • The Moscow Nuclear Summit and the Status of Russia's Smuggling Threat [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1996
    by Vladimir A. Orlov

  • Reexamining Brain Drain from the Former Soviet Union [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1996
    by R. Adam Moody

  • Nuclear Leakage from the Post-Soviet States
    Oral Presentation by Dr. William Potter before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs

  • U.S.Assistance Programs for Improving MPC&A in the Former Soviet Union [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1996
    by Jessica E. Stern

  • The Nunn-Lugar Program Should Be Increased, Not Reduced [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1996
    by Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, Bulat Nurgaliev, and Andrei Sannikov
    Ballistic, Cruise Missile, and Missile Defense Systems: Trade and Significant Developments [PDF format]
    Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 3.2.
    Posted: 1 January 1996
    Nuclear-Related Trade and Cooperation Developments for Selected States [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Winter 1996
    Posted: 1 January 1996

  • Conference Findings on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Donor and Recipient Country Perspectives [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1995
    by John M. Shields

  • Cooperation between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Defense Department on Nuclear Weapons Safety [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1995
    by Evgeniy P. Maslin

  • The International Science and Technology Center: Bureaucratic Games [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1995
    by Ildar Akhtamzian

  • Political Aspects of Kazakhstan's Current Nuclear Policies [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1995
    by Murat Laumulin

  • The Russian-Iranian Reactor Deal [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1995
    by David Albright
    CIS Proliferation Problems and Issues for the NPT Extension Conference [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1995
    Posted: 1 January 1995
    Nuclear Security in Kazakhstan and Ukraine [PDF format]
    An Interview with Vladimir Shkolnik and Nicolai Steinberg
    The Nonproliferation Review    , CNS, Fall 1994
    Conducted by William Potter, Emily Ewell, and Elizabeth Skinner
    Posted: 1 September 1994

  • U.S.-Russian Cooperation in the Area of Nuclear Safeguards [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Fall 1994
    by Oleg Bukharin
    Nuclear Insecurity in the Post Soviet States [PDF format]
    The Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Spring-Summer 1994
    by William C. Potter
    Posted: 1 March 1994
    Nuclear Politics and the Future Security of Kazakhstan
    A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 1.2.
    by Murat Laumulin
    Posted: 1 January 1994
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    Tools to Catalyze International Assistance for Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction [PDF format]
    A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.4.
    by Kathleen M. Vogel.
    Posted: Fall 1999
    U.S. Assistance to Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction: Identifying the Next Steps [PDF format]
    A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 6.4.
    by Igor Khripunov and George W. Parshall.
    Posted: Fall 1999
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