Renewing the Partnership: Recommendations for Accelerated Action to Secure Nuclear Material in the Former Soviet Union
Report, Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
August 2000
Authors: Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project, Oleg Bukharin, Kenneth N. Luongo
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Public Policy; Managing the Atom
The cooperative U.S.-Russian effort to ensure that Russian bomb material does not fall into hostile hands - known as the Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A) program, managed by the Department of Energy (DOE)-is absolutely crucial to U.S. national security, playing a fundamental role in the global effort to stem the spread of nuclear weapons. Precisely because of the urgency and importance of the task, however, it is essential to ensure that it is being carried out in a manner that will reduce the security threat posed by insecure nuclear material as quickly and effectively as practicable.
This report provides an assessment of the current MPC&A program and makes recommendations designed to accelerate and strengthen the effort, including steps toward the difficult goal of achieving sustainable security for nuclear material in the former Soviet Union over the long term.
For more information about this publication please contact the STPP Program Coordinator at 617-496-1981.
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