Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union

Abstract

Congress passed the Nunn-Lugar amendment, authorizing U.S. threat reduction assistance to the former Soviet Union, in November 1991, after a failed coup in Moscow and the disintegration of the Soviet Union raised concerns about the safety and security of Soviet nuclear weapons. The annual program has grown from $400 million in the DOD budget over $1 billion per year across three agencies - DOD, DOE, and the State Department. It has also evolved from an emergency response to impending chaos in the Soviet Union, to a more comprehensive threat reduction and nonproliferation effort, to a broader program seeking to keep nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons from leaking out of the former Soviet Union and into the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2009
Accession Number
ADA504717

Entities

People

  • Amy F. Woolf

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Fissile Materials
  • Foreign Relations
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Radiological Weapons
  • Ussr
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Strategic Security Studies