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Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas: 2009

Matthew Bunn

Professor, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Andrew Newman, PhD

Senior Program Officer, International Program

Nuclear Funding 2009 "Funding for U.S. Efforts to Improve Controls Over Nuclear Weapons, Materials, and Expertise Overseas: a 2009 Update"
— a June 2009 NTI commissioned report by Andrew Newman and Matthew Bunn, Project on Managing the Atom.

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A June 2009 NTI commissioned report by Andrew Newman and Matthew Bunn, Project on Managing the Atom.

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