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      Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues

      Committee on International Security and Arms Control,National Academy of Sciences

      Offering a nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control, this book describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their contemporary positions - and where they…

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      Reykjavik and Beyond: Deep Reductions in Strategic Nuclear Arsenals and the Future Direction of Arms Control

      Committee on International Security and Arms Control,National Academy of Sciences

      Focuses on the success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. This book considers what changes in force structures, strategic thought, and political relations would be necessary to make…

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      Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium

      Committee on International Security and Arms Control,National Academy of Sciences

      Many thousands of US and Russian nuclear weapons are slated to be retired as a result of nuclear arms reduction treaties and unilateral pledges. The management and disposition of these…

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      Challenges for the 1990’s for Arms Control and International Security

      Committee on International Security and Arms Control,National Academy of Sciences,Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky

      Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in the area of arms control under active negotiation: strategic and conventional force…

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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

      Committee on International Security and Arms Control,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities. Preventing the flow of such items to terrorist groups is…

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      Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism

      The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. policy makers will need to…

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      Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability

      Russian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability

      As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, it is increasingly important for these two countries to…

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      A Strategic Vision for Biological Threat Reduction: The U.S. Department of Defense and Beyond

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Committee on Enhancing Global Health Security through International Biosecurity and Health Engagement Programs

      The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to articulate a 5-year strategic vision for international health security programs and provide findings and recommendations on how to optimize…

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      Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

      National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Committee on Technical Issues Related to Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

      Reviews the technical issues that arose during the Senate debate over treaty ratification. This work discusses topics which include the capacity of the United States to maintain confidence in the…

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      Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015: Proceedings of a Russian-U.S. Workshop

      Joint Committees on the Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015,Russian Academy of Sciences,National Research Council

      The U.S. National Academies (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), building on a foundation of years of interacademy cooperation, conducted a joint project to identify U.S. and Russian…

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      Global Security Engagement: A New Model for Cooperative Threat Reduction

      Committee on Strengthening and Expanding the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Program

      The government’s first Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs were created in 1991 to eliminate the former Soviet Union’s nuclear, chemical, and other weapons and prevent their proliferation. The programs have…

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      Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control Monitoring, Detection, and Verification: A National Security Priority: Interim Report

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Committee on the Review of Capabilities for Detection, Verification, and Monitoring of Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material

      At the request of Congress, this report presents findings and recommendations related to governance of the U.S. government’s monitoring, detection, and verification (MDV) enterprise and offers findings and recommendations related…

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      Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism

      The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty of possible undesirable events and…

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      Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges

      U.S. Committee on the Internationalization of the Civilian Nuclear Fuel Cycle,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Policy and Global Affairs,National Academy of Sciences,National Research Council

      The so-called nuclear renaissance has increased worldwide interest in nuclear power. This title summarizes key issues and analyses of the topic, offers some criteria for evaluating options, and makes findings…

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      Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High Containment Biological Laboratories

      Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories,National Academy of Sciences,National Research Council

      The project, Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-containment Biological Laboratories, culminated in a workshop that took place in Istanbul, Turkey from July 10-13, 2011 –P. ix.

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      Knowledge and Diplomacy: Science Advice in the United Nations System

      Committee for Survey and Analysis of Science Advice on Sustainable Development to International Organizations,Development, Security, and Cooperation Policy and Global Affairs,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Focuses on the functions of the United Nations that affect international governance in the fields related to sustainable development, with reference to the taxonomy of the key United Nations organs…

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      The Role of Environmental NGOs, Russian Challenges, American Lessons: Proceedings of a Workshop

      Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in Russia,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office of International Affairs,Policy and Global Affairs,National Research Council

      Contains proceedings of the NRC committee established to work with a Russian counterpart group on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making. This work highlights the successes and…

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      An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility, Exploring a Russian Site as a Prototype: Proceedings of an International Workshop

      Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Fuel Repository in Russia,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,National Research Council,Russian Academy of Sciences,Development, Security, and Cooperation

      Focuses on the environmental aspects of the general location and characteristics of a possible storage site, transportation to and within the site, containers for transportation and storage, inventory and accountability…

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      Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials: International Workshop Proceedings

      Committee on Cleaning Up of Radioactive Contamination: Russian Challenges and U.S. Experience,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia

      This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Academies…

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