We need a cabinet secretary that cares. Only then will the bureaucracy move. We've been lulled into a false sense of security because people think we've accomplished much more than we have. Finally, the US and Russia need to address the issue of the stability and conversion of the Russian nuclear complex on a more comprehensive basis. The Russian nuclear complex is oversized and significantly underfunded.
Workers go for months without pay.
Yet these institutes control thousands of nuclear weapons through the dismantlement process and hundreds of tons of fissile materials. Diversion to a terrorist group of even a fraction of these materials would be a major international security crisis. This is not a foreign aid program. It is an essential national security program. The Committee on Nuclear Policy is a collaborative effort by the directors of 18 major research projects on nuclear weapons policy.