Russia
Analysis
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Russia Missile Chronology
March 13, 2009An annotated chronology of missile-related developments in Russia
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UNSC Resolution 1887: Packaging Nonproliferation and Disarmament at the United Nations
Feb. 1, 2009 | Kaegan McGrath, Vasileios SavvidisKaegan McGrath and Vasileios Savvidis discuss how the Obama administration advanced its nonproliferation agenda over nuclear disarmament objectives in UN Security Council Resolution 1887.
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The Six-Party Talks and President Obama's North Korea Policy
Feb. 1, 2009 | Insook KimInssok Kim analyzes the prospects for the incoming Obama administration to jump start the Six-Party Talks.
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Senator Nunn Testifies Before the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
Jan. 8, 2009 | Sam NunnSam Nunn appears before Commission led by Chairman Bill Perry and Vice Chairman James Schlesinger to discuss strategic posture issues facing the United States and the world.
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The International Uranium Enrichment Center at Angarsk: A Step Towards Assured Fuel Supply?
Nov. 1, 2008 | Anya LoukianovaAnya Loukianova examines the origins and progress of the Russian initiative to create a multilateral fuel enrichment enterprise and a fuel bank with low-enriched uranium.
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2008 NIS Nuclear Trafficking
Sept. 23, 2008The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.
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The Risks and Challenges of a Cruise Missile Tipping Point
Sept. 1, 2008 | Dennis GormleyDennis Gormley analyzes the upsurge in land-attack cruise missile proliferation in recent years and the challenges this trend brings to international security.
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Cooperative Threat Reduction and Pakistan
Aug. 4, 2008 | Sharad Joshi, Togzhan KassenovaSharad Joshi and Togzhan Kassenova examine the feasibility of extending Cooperative Threat Reduction-type assistance to Pakistan.
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The Race Between Cooperation and Catastrophe
June 12, 2008 | Sam NunnNTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn spoke at the American Academy in Berlin about the need for NATO countries to work together and with Russia, to address the security threats posed by emerging new nuclear weapons states, proliferation of enrichment, poorly secured nuclear material and catastrophic terrorism.
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Sam Nunn Accepts Hessian Peace Prize
June 11, 2008 | Sam NunnNTI Co-Chairman Sam Nunn was honored with the Hessian Peace Prize for his "long-standing involvement and strong engagement in avoiding nuclear conflicts and his work toward nuclear disarmament." In his acceptance remarks, he spoke about the need to reduce global nuclear dangers.
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Help Russia Help Us
An op-ed published by the New York Times and written by Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Nunn on the importance of the United States and Russia to cooperate to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons.
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Reykjavik Summit: The Legacy and a Lesson for the Future
Dec. 1, 2007 | Nikolai SokovNikolai Sokov provides a retrospective of the 1986 Reykjavik summit meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev and evaluates its impact on future U.S.-Russian arms control efforts.
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This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. Copyright © 2011 by MIIS.
Get the Facts on Russia
- Maintains a nuclear arsenal of approximately 12,000 warheads
- Pursued a covert biological weapons program during the Soviet era while a state party to the BTWC
- Scheduled to complete destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile by December 2015
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