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Proliferation Concerns Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union (1997) / Chapter Skim
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... Providing security for direct-use material and limiting international flows of technologies that could be diverted to support aggression should be the common interests of the United States, Russia, and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union (FSU)
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... A remarkable degree of bilateral cooperation has developed to address the core national security issues of protecting direct-use nuclear material and controlling exports of military-related items the very items each had developed to destroy the other. Without the American involvement, it is unlikely that the growing support in the region for upgrading MPC&A systems and for adopting the objectives of the international export control regimes would be realities.
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  • successor states
  • nuclear materials
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  • bilateral cooperation
  • soviet nuclear
  • controlling exports
  • trade opportunities
  • advanced technologies


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