Nuclear Threat Reduction: Cooperating in Troubled Times

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 For a useful summary of this legislation see www.nti.org/db/nisproofs/Russia/forasst/nunn_lug/overview.htm. The legislation as well as overall conditions in Russia at the time are well covered in Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (New York: Times Books, 2004), p. 69. 2 An excellent account of those events is contained in Mitchell Reiss, Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Ambitions (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 82–189. 3 Conversation between the author and Vladimir Linonayev of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, September 2001. 4 Jan Fox, ‘GAO Lashes U.S. Nonproliferation Program’, Global Security Newswire, 14 January 2008, http://204.71.60.36/d_newswire/issues/2008_1_14.html#3E3200E4. 5 Molly Moore, ‘Sarkozy Pushes Nuclear Energy in Mideast’, Washington Post, 20 January 2008, p. A22. 6 Harold Feiveson, ‘The Search for Proliferation-Resistant Nuclear Power’, http://www.fas.org/faspir/2001/v54n5/nuclear.htm. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJack CaravelliJack Caravelli is Senior Visiting Fellow at the UK Defence Academy and Visiting Professor at Cranfield University. He was Director for Nonproliferation on the National Security Council Staff from 1996 to 2000 and Assistant Deputy Administrator at the Department of Energy from 2000 to 2003. He is the author of Nuclear Insecurity: The Threat from Rogue Nations and Terrorists (2007).