Issue Brief

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, “Russia: Plutonium Disposition Developments,” updated January 2002.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, “Russia: Plutonium Disposition Overview,” updated October 2001.

Dr. Adam Bernstein, “Introduction to Plutonium Disposition,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies Database, November 1997.

Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program, Amended Record of Decision, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, April 19, 2002.

Secretary Abraham Announces Administration Plan to Proceed with Plutonium Disposition & Reduce Proliferation Concerns, Department of Energy Press Release, January 23, 2002.

Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the Management and Disposition of Plutonium Designated As No Longer Required for Defense Purposes and Related Cooperation, September 2, 2000.

Fact Sheet on the U.S.-Russian Plutonium Disposition Agreement, distributed by the White House, June 4, 2000.

Joint U.S.-Russian Statement Concerning Management and Disposition of Weapon-Grade Plutonium, distributed by the White House, June 4, 2000.

Joint Statement of Principles for Management and Disposition of Plutonium Designated as No Longer Required for Defense Purposes, September 2, 1998.

Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Management of Plutonium that Has Been Withdrawn from Nuclear Military Programs, July 24, 1998.

Final Report of the U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, June 1, 1997.

Kevin O’Neill, editor, “Addressing Excess Stocks of Civil and Military Plutonium,” Panel: U.S. and Russian Military Plutonium Disposition Programs, proceedings of the December 10, 2001 ISIS Conference.

Frank von Hippel, “Recommendations for Preventing Nuclear Terrorism,” FAS Public Interest Report, November/December 2001, Vol. 54, No. 6.

Frank N. von Hippel, “Plutonium and Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel,” Science, Vol. 293, No. 5539, Issue of September 28, 2001, pp. 2397-2398.

Allison Macfarlane, Frank von Hippel, Jungmin Kang, and Robert Nelson, “Plutonium Disposal, the Third Way,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 2001, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 53-57.

Arjun Makhijani, “Plutonium End Game: Stop Reprocessing, Start Immobilizing,” Science for Democratic Action, Vol. 9, No. 3, February 2001.

Arjun Makhijani, “Plutonium End Game: Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium,” January 2001.

Christopher Ficek, “Plutonium Disposition Update,” Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (RANSAC), July 22, 2000.

F. Reshetnikov, Nekotoryye aspekty problemy utilizatsii izbytochnogo oruzheynogo plutoniya v Rossii, (Some aspects of disposition of excess plutonium in Russia), Vestnik Rossiyskoy Akademii nauk, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2000, pp. 117-128.

Paul Leventhal and Steven Dolley, “The Plutonium Fallacy: An Update,” The Nonproliferation Review, Spring-Summer 1999, Vol. 6, No. 3.

Kory W. Budlong Sylvester, “Alternative Approaches to Russian Plutonium Disposition,” The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1999, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Alexandra von Meier, Jennifer Lynn Miller, and Ann C. Keller, “The Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: A Comparison of Three Narrative Contexts,” The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1998, Vol. 5, No. 2.

A. Diakov and Ye. Sharov, “Ekonomika utilizatsii oruzheynogo plutoniya v yadernykh reaktorakh,” (Economy of plutonium disposition in nuclear reactors), January 1998.

Adam Bernstein, “Getting Burnt by Weapons Plutonium: Security Implications of U.S. Disposition Options,” The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1997, Vol. 4, No. 2.

Matthew Bunn and John Holdren, “Managing Military Uranium and Plutonium in the United States and the Former Soviet Union,” Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1997, Vol. 22, pp. 403-486.

Steven Dolley, “Burn It or Bury It? Burying Warhead Plutonium as Waste is Safer and Cheaper Than Burning it in Reactors,” Nuclear Control Institute, March 28, 1997.

Charles N. Van Doren, “Getting to Burn Weapons Plutonium: Principal Issues and Obstacles,” The Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1996, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Betsy Perabo, “The Disposition of Fissile Materials: An Extended Interview with Oleg Bukharin, Thomas Cochran, and Wolfgang Panofsky,” The Nonproliferation Review, Winter 1994, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Arjun Makhijani and Annie Makhijani, Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly (selected chapters), (IEER Press, 1995; also available in Russian).

Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: Reactor-Related Options (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995).

Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1994).