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Political Challenges to Cooperation on Nonproliferation
Political Challenges to Cooperation on Nonproliferation
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For example, as the United States and Russia on nuclear nonproliferation. leaders of the United States and Russia reach consensus on The Russian and American experts interviewed for this the critical nature of the proliferation threat, they also estab- study agreed that the nonproliferation and threat reduction lish priorities both for their own national policies and for initiatives of the United States and Russia have matured in a bilateral cooperation to address the threat.
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cooperative efforts for the indefinite future. However, the interest of the presidents, combined with the As a first and fundamental step, the joint committee slow accumulation of successes in the implementation of recommends that the presidents of the Russian Federanonproliferation and threat reduction initiatives, has meant tion and the United States establish a Joint High-Level that the cooperation on nonproliferation has been among the Commission with the responsibility of preparing a stratmost active spheres of the U.S.-Russian endeavor over the egy for current and future U.S.-Russian cooperation to past decade.
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At the Bratislava Summit in Februnonproliferation and the creative, flexible approaches to non- ary 2005, President Bush and President Putin stated that "The proliferation that experts from nongovernmental organiza- United States and Russia will enhance cooperation to counter tions can bring. Therefore, individuals from both within and one of the gravest threats our two countries face, nuclear outside government with relevant political, program man- terrorism.
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A change in to pursue nonproliferation and threat reduction goals are con- senior personnel sometimes results in a decision-making siderable, however. Different national interests, political vacuum for a time.
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In discussions with Russian need to do is to give the Russians equal access to our sites, participants in the cooperation, it became clear that they our nuclear storage sites to see what works and what doesn't agreed with the first two responsibilities and expressed a work, to build confidence between our two governments." belief that joint, parity-based participation in program fund A strong presidential statement of this kind in support of ing will have to be achieved as the state of the Russian a new policy direction regarding access or any other issue in economy improves. cooperation on nonproliferation can be important to chang- In some sense, this approach is natural: even though the ing the perspective of agency decision makers.9 The joint Russian economy has improved markedly in recent years, committee therefore recommends that the presidents of Russia has an enormous burden of infrastructure modernizathe United States and Russia take every opportunity to tion, of which the nuclear complex is only a part.
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and Russian program staff members to fight nuclear proliferation. work together on setting annual goals that increase Russian One potential source of additional resources for nonprocontributions of all types as the partnership between the two liferation is the nuclear energy industry in both the United nations progresses.12 States and Russia.
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