NIS Profiles -- Overviews and Analyses of Nonproliferation Issues

The reports below provide new and substantially updated overviews of selected nonproliferation-related issues in the Newly Independent States.

2001 Overviews
	The MPC&A Program in Russia (October 2001)--Kenley Butler
	Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) (October 2001)--Kenley Butler
	The Nuclear Cities Initiative (October 2001)--Elena Sokova
	Russian Heavy Bomber Force (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	Russian Strategic Rocket Forces (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	The Topol-M ICBM  (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	Russia: Old ICBM Modernization Programs  (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	Russia: Nuclear Weapon Safety and Security (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	Russia: Naval Nuclear Deterrent (August 2001)--Michael Jasinski
	Russian Nuclear Warhead Production Complex (August 2001)--Elena Sokova
	Russia: MOX Fuel (June 2001)--Gregory Dwyer
	Russia: Plutonium Disposition (June 2001)--Elena Sokova and Gregory Dwyer
	Russia: Weapons-Grade Fissile Material Cycle Overview and Weapons-Grade Fissile Material Cycle Chart (June 2001)--Gregory Dwyer and Elena Sokova
2000 Overviews
	START II Ratification: There is More Than Meets the Eye (April 2000)--Niklolai Sokov
	Russia's New National Security Concept: The Nuclear Angle (January 2000)--Nikolai Sokov
1999 Overviews
	An Assessment of the Draft Russian Military Doctrine (October 1999)--Nikolai Sokov
	The April 1999 Russian Federation Security Council Meeting on Nuclear Weapons (June 1999)--Nikolai Sokov
	Modernization of Strategic Nuclear Weapons In Russia:  The Emerging New Posture (February 1999)--Nikolai Sokov
	Status and Trends in Tactical Weapons Deployment 1998  and Deployment Table (February 1999)-- Nikolai Sokov
	The US-Russia HEU Agreement (February 1999)--Kent Jamison
1998 Overviews
	Ukraine, Bushehr, and the MTCR (November 1998)--Sasha Pursley
	Current Prospects For START II Ratification and START III Talks(September 1998)--Nikolai Sokov

A US NGO Perspective on US--Russian MPC&A Cooperation (July 1998)--William Potter

Institutions Suspected by the Russian Government of Violating Export Control Legislation (July 1998, updated September 1998)--Scott Parrish and Fred Wehling

Background Report: Start-Up of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant (June 1998)--Lisa Holtyn

Ukraine's Heavy Bombers (June 1998)--Sasha Pursley

	The "Seismic Event" at Novaya Zemlya: Earthquake or Nuclear Test? (April 1998)--Paul Irwin
	Several new overviews of issues pertaining to naval reactor decommissioning, dismantling, and radioactive waste have been incorporated in the new Russian Naval Nuclear Reactors section.
	Description of Gosatomnadzor's MPCA System (March 1998)--Yuriy Volodin (Gosatomnadzor)

VATESI--The Lithuanian Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (March 1998)--Jim Wink

	The Nuclear Power Plant Pay Crisis and the Smolensk NPP Protests (January 1998)--Lisa Holtyn
1997 Overviews
	Progress Towards a Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (December 1997)--Scott Parrish
	Material Protection, Control, and Accounting in Russia (December 1997)--Adam Bernstein
	Overview of Plutonium Disposition in Russia (November 1997)--Adam Bernstein
	Executive Summary: Plutonium Disposition (November 1997)--Adam Bernstein
	Full Article:  Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose?  The Story Behind the Controversy  (November 1997)--Scott Parrish
	Executive Summary:  Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose?  The Story Behind the Controversy  (November 1997)--Scott Parrish and John Lepingwell
	Chornobyl: Shutdown and Western Aid  (August 1997)--Martin Kelly

Chornobyl:  Fuel and Energy Issues (August 1997)--Martin Kelly

Less Well-Known Cases of Nuclear Terrorism and Nuclear Diversion in the Former Soviet Union (August 1997)--William Potter

	The US-Russia HEU Deal (August 1997)--Lara Kroop
	The Helsinki Summit and US-Russian Arms Control (July 1997)--Scott Parrish

Russia, Cuba, and the Juragua Nuclear Plant (May 1997)--Scott Parrish

	START II Ratification Issues and Debate (November 1996)-- John Lepingwell--Out of date--Removed
	History of the Proposal for A Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in Europe (February 1997)--Martin Kelly

Backround Report on Reopening the Metsamor Reactor in Armenia (October 1996)--Kseniya Yershova, Mary Wells

Comments or questions? E-mail Cristina Chuen at MIIS CNS: Cristina.ChuenATmiis.edu

This material is produced independently for NTI by the 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, agents. Copyright © 2002 by MIIS.

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