Nuclear Nonproliferation Concerns With Does Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russias Unemployed Weapons Scientists

The risk that unemployed weapons scientists in the former Soviet Union will sell sensitive information to countries or terrorist groups trying to develop weapons of mass destruction poses a national security threat to the U.S. This report reviews the Dept. of Energy's (DoE) implementation of its Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program -- an effort to develop nonmilitary applications for defense technologies & create jobs for weapons scientists. The report also discusses DoE's Nuclear Cities Initiative -- a new effort to create jobs in Russia's 10 closed nuclear cities. This report contains several recommendations to the Secretary of Energy. Charts & tables.Rezendes, Victor S. is the author of 'Nuclear Nonproliferation Concerns With Does Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russias Unemployed Weapons Scientists' with ISBN 9780756700140 and ISBN 0756700140.