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Cooperative Threat Reduction News

2001

• 27 December 2001: The President has made clear repeatedly that his Administration is committed to strong, effective cooperation with Russia and the other states of the Former Soviet Union to reduce weapons of mass destruction and prevent their proliferation.

2000

• Former Diplomats Salute Nunn, Lugar, for Efforts to Quell Nuclear Danger, USIS Washington File, 06 December 2000 -- The authors of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program have been honored for their diplomatic efforts even as one of them, Senator Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana), prepared to leave on another trip to Russia to expand the reach of the arms reduction program.
• U.S., Ukraine Sign Defense Cooperation Plan for 2001, U.S. Department of Defense, 05 December 2000 -- The United States and Ukraine have signed a Plan of Cooperation for 2001 that is designed to meet "mutually agreed upon goals" in eight main areas including interoperability, force professionalization, and defense structuring, and which will continue their Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
• U.S., Ukraine Sign Defense Cooperation Plan for 2001, U.S. Department of Defense, 05 December 2000 -- The United States and Ukraine have signed a Plan of Cooperation for 2001 that is designed to meet "mutually agreed upon goals" in eight main areas including interoperability, force professionalization, and defense structuring, and which will continue their Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
• FACT SHEET Expanded Threat Reduction Initiative June 4, 2000 -- For Fiscal Year (FY) 2000, there is an estimated $888 million available for high priority security programs in the NIS under ETRI.
• Text: Russian Weapons Plant to Manufacture Kidney Dialysis Equipment 24 March 2000 -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) signed a contract with the Avangard Foundation March 23 to support conversion of a Russian nuclear weapons plant in the closed city of Sarov to the manufacture of kidney dialysis equipment.
• Text: U.S. Energy Department Announces Russian Contracts 21 March 2000 -- The U.S. Energy Department says its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) signed two contracts in Moscow March 17 to assist Russian weapons experts in their transition to civilian employment.
• Text: U.S., Russia Sign Agreement on Nuclear Waste Storage Tanks 10 March 2000 -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Russia's Ministry for Atomic Energy have signed an agreement to develop and test technologies to remediate radioactive waste storage tanks.

  1999

• Nunn-Lugar: The Past as a Guide to the Future, Sen. Dick Lugar, Monterey Institute of International Studies Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA, 13 December 1999
• Text: Energy Secretary Richardson on U.S.-Russia Uranium Agreement USIA 01 December 1999 -- U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says the uranium-processing firm, the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), will continue in its role as the government's executive agent in the nuclear nonproliferation agreement with Russia.
• Text: International Development Center for Russian Nuclear Workers Opens 02 November 1999 -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the opening of the first International Development Center (IDC) in the closed and formerly secret Russian "nuclear city" of Zheleznogorsk.
• Nuclear Weapons Security Assessment and Training Center Opens November 1, 1999 - The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) 12th Main Directorate established the Security Assessment and Training Center (SATC) today in a ceremony at Sergiev Posad, Russia.
• U.S. AND THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN SIGN WMD COUNTERPROLIFERATION AGREEMENT October 6, 1999 -- The Defense Department, in cooperation with the U.S. Customs Service, and together with other departments and agencies, will begin to train and equip Azerbaijani officials in techniques of preventing, deterring, and investigating incidents involving the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials.
• Text: Energy's Richardson on U.S.-Russia Nuclear Safety Partnership USIA 04 October 1999 -- Energy Secretary Bill Richardson praised the partnership between the U.S. and Russia in reducing nuclear threats and said that "now is not the time to discard the progress that has been made in the last few years."
• U.S. Army Officer Helps Russia Scrap Subs American Forces Press Service 27 September 1999 -- The United States, through its Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will help Russia scrap 31 nuclear submarines by 2003. Since 1992, U.S. specialists have helped disassemble one Yankee- and six Delta-class submarines. The Russians have destroyed another five subs on their own. U.S. officials recently awarded SevMash shipyard a contract to scrap a Typhoon.
• U.S., Russia Scrap Soviet-era Nuclear Missile Subs By Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service 15 September 1999 -- The United States is helping Russia dismantle 31 nuclear submarines by 2003 as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. So far, U.S. specialists have helped disassemble one Yankee- and six Delta-class submarines. The Russians have destroyed another five ballistic missile subs on their own using American equipment.
• DoD News Briefing September 14, 1999 -- While we are here to witness the dismantling of several of the Delta class and even Typhoon submarines, we should point out that the United States also has destroyed some 23 submarines and some 368 submarine-launched ballistic missiles as called for by the START I agreement.
• Subject: SecDef's Trip to Russia September 10, 1999 -- One of the key parts of that has been our assistance to the Russians in drawing down, in helping dismantle some of their submarine force, their ballistic missile carrying submarines as they have been phased out of the Russian arsenal in conjunction with their obsolescence and with Russian moves to stay within the various arms control treaties, within the START treaty.
• NUNN-LUGAR: AN IMPRESSIVE RECORD ON SOVIET NUCLEAR ARMS DISMANTLEMENT Senator Richard Lugar USIA - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, September 1999 - The administration's plan to increase funding for Nunn-Lugar and its companion programs by some 65 percent over the next five years is a testament to its value and its contributions to U.S. national security.
• U.S., Russia extend Cooperative Threat Reduction Program 30 Jun 1999 (AFPN) -- The United States and the Russian Federation signed a protocol June 15 and 16, extending the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program through June 2006.
• UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA EXTEND NUNN-LUGAR COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION AGREEMENT 24 June 1999 -- The United States and the Russian Federation signed a protocol to continue the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program in Russia through June 2006. The protocol, to the "Agreement between the Russian Federation and the United States of America concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation," also referred to as the CTR Umbrella Agreement for Russia, was signed on June 15-16, 1999.
• DoD News Briefing , May 25, 1999 -- The U.S. will begin a cooperative project to dismantle a former Soviet chemical weapons testing facility near Nukus, Uzbekistan.
• COOPERATIVE APPROACHES TO HALT RUSSIAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND IMPROVE THE OPENNESS OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT Congressional Budget Office - May 1999 -- The options included in this memorandum fall into two broad categories: preventing the spread of nuclear materials and technical knowledge from Russia, and improving openness, or transparency, in dismantling warheads and accounting for fissile materials.
• THE NUCLEAR THREAT Voice of America 03 March 1999 -- BILL RICHARDSON, THE U-S SECRETARY OF ENERGY, DESCRIBED THE GROWING THREAT AND AMERICAN EFFORTS TO RESPOND TO THE SMUGGLING OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS OR KNOW-HOW OUT OF RUSSIA.
• RUSSIA / NUCLEAR Voice of America 24 Feburary 1999 -- A CONGRESSIONAL STUDY HAS FOUND THAT A UNITED STATES EFFORT TO HELP RUSSIA ADAPT WEAPONS TECHNOLOGIES TO NON-MILITARY USES MAY ACTUALLY BE SUPPORTING SCIENTISTS WORKING ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

  1998

• Nuclear Cities Initiative Briefing November 30, 1998 The Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI) project description, chronology and mission statement, lists and maps of the ten nuclear cities, and profiles of Sarov, Snezhinsk and Zheleznogorsk will be distributed at the briefing.
• U.S. TEAM TO REVIEW NUNN-LUGAR PROJECTS IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE 13 November 1998 -- Senator Richard Lugar will head of team of U.S. officials on a visit of weapons dismantling facilities in Russia and Ukraine, beginning the week of November 16, Lugar's office announced.
• RUSSIA / U-S / NUKES Voice of America 06 November 1998 -- THE UNITED STATES IS TRAINING RUSSIAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE SMUGGLING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND MATERIALS FROM RUSSIA. BUT MICHAEL O'HANLON AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION BELIEVES THE PROGRAM IS TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.
• U.S., RUSSIA UPGRADE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR MATERIAL SECURITY USIA 05 November 1998 -- The United States and the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM) have completed upgrades to security systems protecting highly enriched uranium at two sites in Russia. They also announced November 4 the opening of the Russian Methodological and Training Center (RMTC) in Obninsk.
• Energy Department to Fund Design of Facility to Disassemble and Convert Nuclear Weapons Plutonium Pits for Disposal October 1, 1998 -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has begun contract negotiations with Raytheon Engineers & Constructor, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado for the preliminary and detailed design of a Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility (PDCF). The Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Pantex Plant in Texas are equally preferred locations for the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility.
• TEXT: US, RUSSIA REACH AGREEMENT ON "NUCLEAR CITIES" USIA 23 September 1998 -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov signed an agreement September 22 to bring commercial enterprises to Russia's closed "nuclear cities."
• Richardson and Adamov Reach Agreement on Nuclear Cities and Framework for Resolving Problems with the HEU Deal September 22, 1998 -- After a series of intensive negotiations, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Yevgeny Adamov today signed an agreement to bring commercial enterprises to Russia's closed "nuclear cities" and a joint report that outlines a framework to resolve the problems with the agreement for U.S. purchase of uranium from Russian nuclear weapons.
• Richardson, Russian Federation Dedicate "Second Line of Defense" September 2, 1998 -- US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and Russian Federation State Customs Committee Chairman Valeriy Draganov dedicated the installation of equipment to combat the trafficking of illicit nuclear materials at Russian borders.
• NAVSEA helps arrange for dismantling of Russian submarines NAVY WIRE SERVICE - A WIRE (NWSA) 31 July 1998 -- Naval Sea Systems Command provided technical assistance to the Defense Special Weapons Agency contracting team during negotiations at the Zvezda Far East Factory near Vladivostok and the Nerpa Ship Repair Yard near Murmansk, Russia.
• DOD TEAM AMENDS CTR AGREEMENTS WITH UKRAINE, KAZAKHSTAN AND RUSSIA July 27, 1998 -- As part of continuing efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation and to aid countries in fulfilling their obligations under the Lisbon Protocol to START and other arms control agreements, the Department of Defense recently concluded several amendments to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Implementing Agreements with Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia.
• TEXT: U.S.-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT ON MANAGEMENT OF USED PLUTONIUM 24 July 1998
• TEXT: GORE-KIRIYENKO JOINT STATEMENT ON NUCLEAR CITIES INITIATIVE 24 July 1998
• American Forces Press Service New Defense Threat Reduction Agency Takes the Lead July 21, 1998
• Secretary of Defense Meets with Kazakhstan Minister of Defense July 20, 1998 News Release
• TEXT: U.S. AND RUSSIA WORK JOINTLY TO SECURE NUCLEAR MATERIALS 27 May 1998 -- The Department of Energy (DOE) announced May 25 that four more Russian nuclear facilities upgrades were complete.
• UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA JOIN FORCES TO INCREASE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR MATERIAL SECURITY - 26 May 1998 -- The United States and the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM) yesterday announced the completion of upgrades at four Russian facilities that will help to secure and control nuclear materials, reducing the worldwide risk of nuclear proliferation.
• US HAILS SUCCESSFUL MOVE OF WEAPONS-GRADE MATERIAL FROM GEORGIA 24 April 1998 By Jane A. Morse USIA -- Senior Administration officials have hailed the successful move of weapons-usable uranium from Georgia as an important achievement in the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with countries of the former Soviet Union.
• TEXT: WHITE HOUSE ON REMOVAL OF URANIUM FROM REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA 24 April 1998 -- The United States has completed the removal of five kilograms of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear research center in the Republic of Georgia to the United Kingdom.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY MIKE MCCURRY April 24, 1998 -- Operation Auburn Endeavor is a close effort in cooperation with the government of Georgia and the United Kingdom to complete the removal of about five kilograms of highly enriched uranium from Georgia to the United Kingdom.
• Operation Auburn Endeavor The White House Briefing Room - April 24, 1998 - Today the United States, in close cooperation with Georgia and the United Kingdom, completed the removal of about five kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Georgia to the United Kingdom.
• U-S / GEORGIA NUKE 24 April 1998 Voice of America -- THE UNITED STATES IS HAILING THE COOPERATION OF THE BRITISH AND GEORGIAN GOVERNMENTS IN MOVING A SHIPMENT OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM FROM A REACTOR IN GEORGIA TO A SECURE STORAGE SITE IN SCOTLAND.
• GEORGIA URANIUM SHIPMENT 23 April 1998 Voice of America -- FIVE KILOGRAMS OF HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM AND SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL FROM AN OLD NUCLEAR RESEARCH REACTOR LEFT A DEFUNCT NUCLEAR REACTOR IN GEORGIA.
• BRITAIN / NUCLEAR FUEL 22 April 1998 Voice of America -- THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS DEFENDED ITS DECISION TO ALLOW NUCLEAR MATERIAL FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION TO BE REPROCESSED IN SCOTLAND.
• DoD News Briefing Captain Mike Doubleday, DASD (PA) Tuesday, April 21, 1998 - 1:45 p.m. (EDT) -- Operation Auburn Endeavor - A team of U.S. government specialists is on the ground in T'bilisi helping the government of Georgia better secure its nuclear material.
• Cooperative Threat Reduction MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS April 20, 1998 -- The Department of Defense announced today the establishment of a World Wide Web site sponsored by the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program.
• Secretary of Defense William Cohen visited the Ministry of Defense facility at Sergiev Posad February, 1998 Press Release
• Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safety: Uncertainties About the Implementation of U.S.-Russian Plutonium Disposition Efforts (Letter Report, 01/14/98, GAO/RCED-98-46).

  1997

• House NSC Members visit CTR Sites in Russia and Ukraine November 6, 1997 News Release
• DoD of the U.S. and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova reach an agreement to implement the CTR accord November 4, 1997 News Release
• NUNN-LUGAR: New Solutions for Today's Nuclear Threats Zachary Selden, Business Executives for National Security - September 1997
• Cooperative Threat Reduction: Review of DOD's June 1997 Report on Assistance Provided GAO/NSIAD-97-218, September 5, 1997.
• PE�A AND MIKHAILOV SIGN JOINT STATEMENT TO STRENGTHEN NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION ACCORD DOE News Release - July 23, 1997 -- At a news conference in Moscow, U.S. Secretary of Energy Federico Pe�a today announced that he and Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Viktor Mikhailov have signed a joint statement to add the Lytkarino Scientific Research Institute for Equipment to a joint U.S.-Russian nuclear weapons and materials protection and security program.
• DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Extending the CTR plan & program and other defense cooperative plans to Georgia July 17, 1997
• Additional Funds Added to Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in Russia April 23, 1997
• DoD News Briefing, Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon, ASD (PA) CTR Program helping Russia destroy its nuclear arsenals April 1, 1997
• U.S. Aid to the Russian Federation "Delay, Postpone, Obfuscate, Derail": A Case Study of U.S. Government Response to Criticism of Assistance Programs to Russia by J. Michael Waller, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 5, no. 1, Winter, 1997
• STEMMING RUSSIA'S PLUTONIUM TIDE: COOPERATIVE EFFORTS TO CONVERT MILITARY REACTORS by Todd Perry The Nonproliferation Review Winter 1997, Volume 4 - Number 2

  1996

• Secretary of Defense Trip to Russia; (Sevrodinsk to tour Nunn/Lugar activity) Reduction October 1996 Background Briefing
• Secretary of Defense William J. Perry to visit Moscow, Russia; (accompanied by Sens. Sam Nunn & Richard G. Lugar, the sponsors of the original legislation that funded the CTR Program) October 10, 1996 Memorandum for Correspondents
• DOE SECURES NUCLEAR MATERIAL IN BELARUS AND UZBEKISTAN, REDUCES RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION DOE News Release - October 1, 1996 -- Nuclear material control and accounting upgrades were installed at the Sosny Science and Technical Center in Belarus and the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences Institute of Nuclear Physics.
• United States - Russian Federation Cooperative Efforts in the Area of Chemical Weapons Destruction Harold P. Smith, Jr. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs United States Department of Defense - Address To The Commonwealth Club of California, presented in San Francisco, California, September 26, 1996.
• Secretary of Defense Trip to Ukraine; (Nunn/Lugar (CTR) program contributions) June 1996 Background Briefing
• Defense Nuclear Agency Changes Name June 26, 1996 Press Release
• Secretary of Defense William J. Perry & Ukrainian Defense Minister Valerie Shmarov will travel to Pervomaysk, Ukraine May 28, 1996 Memorandum for Correspondents
• AGREEMENT ON HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM May 20, 1996
• Secretary of Defense William J. Perry John F. Kennedy, School of Government, Harvard University Preventive Defense - CTR program to reduce the nuclear weapon complex of the nuclear nations of the former Soviet Union May 13, 1996 Press Release,
• DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William J. Perry Presentation on new proliferation report; CTR program progress in protecting warheads April 11, 1996
• THE NUNN-LUGAR ACT: A Wasteful and Dengerous Illusion Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 39 March 18, 1996.
• Secretary of Defense William J. Perry Defense Strategy for the Post-Cold War World - Preventive Defense: Cooperative Threat March 4, 1996 Press Release,
• DOE Secures Nuclear Material in Latvia, Reduces Risk of Nuclear Material Proliferation DOE News Release - March 4, 1996 -- The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it has completed security upgrades at the Latvian Academy of Sciences Nuclear Research Center.

  1995

• Secretary of Defense William J. Perry visits Kiev, Ukraine December 28, 1995 Press Advisory
• U.S. CTR Program Assists in Developing Ukraine Industrial Partnerships November 17, 1995 Press Release
• Statement from Defense Secretary William J. Perry (regarding Senator Sam Nunn) October 9, 1995 Press Release
• U.S. - Kazakstan Cooperative Threat Reduction Agreement to Seal Up World's Largest Nuclear Test Tunnel Complex October 3, 1995 Press Release
• US ASSISTS RUSSIA WITH DEFENSE CONVERSION June 29, 1995
• DoD News Briefing Tuesday, May 23, 1995 - Dr. Ashton Carter, Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Policy - "GAO report on the Cooperative Threat Reduction program that's generated, we think, some garbled stories."
• U.S. Assists in Developing Kazakhstani Industrial Partnerships through DoD's CTR Program April 5, 1995 Press Release
• U.S. ASSISTS RUSSIA WITH WEAPONS DISMANTLEMENT AND WEAPONS SECURITY April 3, 1995
• U.S. ASSISTS UKRAINE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS DISMANTLEMENT April 1, 1995
• Unprecedented Collaboration Between U.S. and Russia Enables Remote Monitoring of Nuclear Materials DOE News Release - March 31, 1995 -- The Department of Energy, in collaboration with Russia's Kurchatov Institute, today unveiled an experimental system that could provide remote monitoring of each others' weapons-usable nuclear materials.
• Cooperative Threat Reduction Forum on the Role of Science and Technology in Promoting National Security and Global Stability March 30, 1995
• Defense By Other Means remarks by Secretary of Defense William Perry to the U.S.-Russian Business Council, Washington, March 29, 1995.
• DoD and the Belarus Ministry Announce the Opening of an Analytical Chemistry Laboratory - established under the CTR (Nunn-Lugar) Program March 28, 1995 Memorandum for Correspondents
• The Department of Defense announced today the creation of a $16.1 million joint venture that will convert a Kazakhstan defense company into an international telecommunications company February 14, 1995
• Creation of a $4.4 million Joint Venture to Manufacture Cellular Telephones in Kharkiv, Ukraine under the CTR (Nunn-Lugar) Program February 14, 1995 Memorandum for Correspondents
• DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William J. Perry Annual Budget Briefing February 6, 1995
• U.S. Assists Russia with Nuclear Materials Security; funds will be provided under the DoD's CTR (Nunn-Lugar) Program January 24, 1995 Press Release
• Government to Government Communications Link Established with Ukraine is funded under $2.4 million CTR (Nunn-Lugar) Program January 4, 1995 Press Release

  1994

• NUNN-LUGAR JOINT VENTURE PROJECT LAUNCHED December 14, 1994
• Neutralization facility in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine; U.S. assistance in this project is funded by the CTR program November 14, 1994 Memorandum for Correspondents
• Equipment Shipments to Russian Strategic Rocket Forces bases funded under CTR program October 11, 1994 Memorandum for Correspondents
• U.S. NUNN-LUGAR SAFETY, SECURITY, DISMANTLEMENT PROGRAM March 21, 1994

  1993

• SAFE, SECURE DISMANTLEMENT (SSD) INITIATIVES WITH BELARUS, KAZAKHSTAN AND UKRAINE April 4, 1993
• SAFE, SECURE DISMANTLEMENT (SSD) INITIATIVES WITH RUSSIA April 4, 1993

  1992

• US-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT ON HIGHLY-ENRICHED URANIUM August 31, 1992