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Post-Cold War Arms Control Issues: Soviet Nuclear Weapons & Global Proliferation Threats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2009

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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1 Public Law No. 102–228, December 12, 1991. We did not focus our review on the implementation of more recent related legislation, such as the Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992, Title XIV of Public Law No. 102–484, October 23, 1992, or Title V of the Freedom Support Act, Public Law No. 102–511, October 24, 1992.

2 DOD also plans to obligate up to $10 million to help assess and develop projects.

3 Such equipment would include protective clothing, video and optical gear, and access and communications equipment.

4 The State Department's envoy recently testified that the United States has promised to provide Ukraine with up to $175 million in Act-related aid.

5 Types of fissile materials include plutonium and HEU.

6 A State Department official testified In July 1992 that $150 million had been tentatively reserved for the facility.

7 The overall agreement between Russia and the United States on the safe and secure transportation, storage, and destruction of weapons and prevention of proliferation states that the United States “shall have the right to examine the use of any material, training, or other services” that it may provide.

8 While burning mixed plutonium and uranium fuel In power reactors is a technically established option, such fuel is more expensive than uranium fuel.

9 USEC, which has yet to begin operating, will eventually take over DOE’s enrichment operations.

10 A Russian official has stated that Russia can convert 20 metric tons of HEU annually.

11 A more detailed description of the antidumping agreements [was] attached to [Mr. Kelley's] statement.