Russia: US Government Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

Listed below are GAO reports concerning nonproliferation issues in the NIS.  They are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and were downloaded from the GAO website: http://www.gao.gov. 

US General Accounting Office, U.S. and International Assistance Efforts to Control Sealed Radioactive Sources Need Strengthening (Washington, DC: May 2003)

US General Accounting Office, Weapons of Mass Destruction:  Additional Russian Cooperation Needed to Facilitate U.S. Efforts to Improve Security at Russian Sites (Washington, DC: March 2003)

US General Accounting Office, Weapons of Mass Destruction: Nonproliferation Programs Need Better Integration (Washington, DC: January 2005)

Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE's Efforts to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia's Nuclear Cities Face Challenges, 21 May 2001 (GAO-01-429). Report on the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI) program.

Nuclear Nonproliferation:  Limited Progress in Improving Nuclear Material Security in Russia and the Newly Independent States, 6 March 2000, (RCED, NSIAD-00-82.)

Nuclear Nonproliferation: Status of Transparency Measures for U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium, September 1999, (RCED-99-194). Reviews issues concerning verification and transparency measures at the blending-down plants in Russia. For more information on this issue see the HEU Deal section of the Profiles Database.

Nuclear Nonproliferation: Concerns with the DOE's Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russia's Unemployed Weapons Scientists, February 1999 (PDF). Report on the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) program and the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI).

Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safety: Uncertainties About the Implementation of U.S. Russian Plutonium Disposition Efforts, January 1998 (PDF).

Cooperative Threat Reduction: Review of DOD's June 1997 Report on Assistance Provided, September 1997 (PDF).

Cooperative Threat Reduction: Status of Defense Conversion Efforts in the Former Soviet Union, April 1997 (PDF).

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Status of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, September 1996 (PDF).

Nuclear Nonproliferation: Status of U.S. Efforts to Improve Nuclear Material Controls in Newly Independent States, March 1996 (PDF).

Nuclear Safety: Concerns with Nuclear Facilities and other Sources of Radiation in the Former Soviet Union, November 1995 (PDF).
 

Last updated 4 February 2005

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