'Helping Russia Downsize Their Weapons of Mass Destruction Via US Industry'

摘要

Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, the United States as been working with the emergent Newly Independent States (NIS) to control nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In 1994, as part of this effort, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) program. While other DOE programs seek to secure nuclear weapons and materials, IPP focuses on the personnel and resources within the NIS that represent a weapons proliferation risk. It identifies and develops nonmilitary projects for former defense technologies, and creates jobs for former weapons scientists and engineers within these projects. In this way, IPP not only strives to channel the technological capabilities within the NIS population into peaceful uses, but also to make NIS lab technology commercially profitable, and in turn help the NIS become stable members of the global economy.