This section of the database provides information on other programs of the United States that have relevance to nonproliferation efforts in the former Soviet Union.  The Defense Enterprise Fund is a venture capital fund incorporated in 1994 to assist conversion and privatization of enterprises in the former Soviet Union. Though begun with Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) monies, the fund now relies on the private sector for its funding. Another program that was originally funded in the United States by the Department of Defense's CTR program is the International Science and Technology Center.  This program, now run by the State Department, also attempts to redirect the work of former weapons scientists to non-military applications. The ISTC is jointly sponsored by a number of other countries around the world as well. The Gore-Primakov (Gore-Chernomyrdin) Commission was a bilateral commission of the United States and Russia. Its formal name was the US-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation, and it aimed to address a number of issues and concerns including nuclear nonproliferation.
 

This page last updated 22 March 2003

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 © 2003 by MIIS.

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