Proliferation Concerns : Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union

The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities and technologies.

Preventing the flow of such items to countries of proliferation concern and to terrorist groups is a major objective of U.S. national security policy. This book reviews the effectiveness of two U.S. programs directed to this objective. These programs have supported the efforts of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakstan in upgrading the physical protection, control, and accountability of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and strengthening systems to control the export of many types of militarily sensitive items. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 Executive Summary2 Introduction3 The Environment for Containment of Advanced Weapons Technologiesin the Former Soviet Union4 Protection, Control, and Accountability of Direct-Use Material5 Systems for Controlling Exports of Militarily Sensitive Items6 EpilogueAppendix A Overview of International Control RegimesAppendix B Site Visits and Meetings of CommitteeAppendix C Charge to the CommitteeAppendix D Biographies of Committee Members