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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 08/04
The Russian Debate on the Nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Delivery Vehicles
Vladimir Dvorkin
April 2004
International Security Program
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA)
Harvard University
Abstract
General policy guidelines and specific steps to address problems concerning the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery vehicles, as well as related debates in the context of Russian-U.S. relations, feature prominently in joint declarations and statements made by the Russian and U.S. presidents, other government officials, as well as in general agreements and unilaterally adopted documents, and in the findings, conferences, symposiums and workshops of government and nongovernmental organizations. Over the recent years, WMD nonproliferation has been a focal issue for the Russian scientific community.
In Russia, nonproliferation issues are primarily studied by the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences; specifically, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Institute of Europe, the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Institute of the Far East, and the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. The leading nongovernmental organizations involved in this research are Russia's Center of Political Studies, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; the Carnegie Moscow Center; Center for Disarmament, Energy and Ecology of the Moscow Institute of Physical Engineering; the Scientists' Committee for Global Security; Center of Export Control Problems; Center of Strategic Nuclear Forces Problems, and a number of other organizations.
