Chain of Custody programs promote and assist the denuclearization of the Soviet
successor states. Related achievements have included the transfer of over 2,000
weapons and their components to Russia, safe storage of fissionable material,
the transfer of 600kg of HEU from Kazakhstan to the United States in "Project
Sapphire," as well as accession to the NPT by Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.
Page last updated 20 December 2002
For more recent developments, see the
Russia: General Nuclear Weapons Developments section.
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