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Departments of Defense, Energy, of cooperation, the nonproliferation and threat reduction iniand State have worked with their counterparts in Russia and tiatives of the United States and Russia have matured in a other states of the former Soviet Union to develop and imple- way that suggests a potential for true partnership. This matument a number of joint nuclear nonproliferation initiatives, rity has been hard won, with slow progress accumulated over many of them under the Cooperative Threat Reduction time, often as Russian and U.S.
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Oth- To accomplish the vision of full partnership described ers are residual constraints not yet eliminated from the Cold above, the joint committee agreed on a two-tiered approach: War era. Still others involve legal issues, such as taxation first, a short-term commission should examine past progress and liability, managerial and organizational problems, and determine a joint strategy for future cooperation; secproject financing, and weaknesses in U.S.-Russian scientific ond, a joint group made up of agency representatives from and technical cooperation.
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Chaired by the Secretary tive nonproliferation programs but would also establish an of Energy and the Director of the Russian Atomic Energy improved framework for future U.S.-Russian work in this Agency, the group will be responsible for overseeing the arena. implementation of U.S.-Russian cooperative efforts on One of the most persistent and challenging impediments nuclear security.4 Presumably, this means that the group will to U.S.-Russian cooperation on nuclear nonproliferation is have the authority to resolve issues that arise in the existing the disagreement between the two governments about liabilcooperation, with the possibility of raising them to the presi- ity protection.
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One approach to facilitateasily be accommodated by Russian nuclear and military ing greater participation and partnership is the development agencies if the requests are for access that is as nonintrusive of programmatic strategic master plans, each based on a sysas possible; the purpose of the visit is as narrowly tailored as tems approach similar to that used by Russia in its developpossible, consistent with the goals of the visit; and the visits ment of the Strategic Master Plan for Complex Disposition include only personnel who have been cleared in advance to of Nuclear Submarines.5 The joint committee recommends participate. The joint committee recommends that the the development of joint U.S.-Russian program-level U.S.
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The joint committee recommends that bilities of the central and local levels of program organiza- agency leaders and project planners actively seek opportion and management, managers and implementers will have tunities to incorporate appropriate scientific flexibility more effective guidance and support to mutually reinforce for participants from both countries in future projects so program objectives, which will work toward achieving the that scientific expertise can be used as effectively as posoverall goals of the partnership. sible and so that such projects can be made more attrac Finally, as the previous report observed, there is a need tive to the best scientific talent in each country.
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It is now able, politically and economically, as not only an opportunity but also an obligation to strengthen well as militarily, to take its place as a true partner of the their cooperative nuclear nonproliferation programs and United States in the effort to contain the proliferation of make them as effective as possible. nuclear weapons in the world.
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