Dismantling the Cold War
Subtitle: U.S. and NIS perspectives on the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
By: John M. Shields and William C. Potter, eds.
Contributors: Shields, John M.; Potter, William C.
Series: CSIA studies in international security
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Nuclear disarmament -- Former Soviet republics.; Technical assistance, American -- Former Soviet republics.; Weapons of mass destruction.
Description: The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union prompted international concern over the safety and security of the Soviet arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. In legislation sponsored by Senator Sam Nunn and Senator Richard Lugar, the U.S. Congress approved a program to assist Soviet weapons dismantlement.

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program has since authorized more than $1.5 billion for a wide array of weapons destruction, demilitarization, nuclear security, and nonproliferation activities in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.

Dismantling the Cold War is the first systematic assessment of the CTR program. It provides both insiders' views of how the complex policy initiative was conceived and "in-country" views of how it was carried out. A frank assessment of what U.S.-NIS cooperation has and has not accomplished, the volume offers programmatic, political, fiscal, organizational, and technical suggestions to help U.S. and NIS policymakers cope with the world's paramount proliferation threat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.