Overcoming Impediments to U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation

The U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences convened a joint workshop to identify methods of overcoming impediments to cooperation between the United States and Russia on nonproliferation. The workshop emphasized approaches and techniques that have already been shown to work in U.S.-Russian programs and that might be applied in other areas. The workshop was intended to facilitate frank discussion between individuals in the United States and Russia who have some responsibility for cooperative nonproliferation programs in the hope of identifying both the impediments to cooperation and potential methods of addressing them. This report summarizes the discussions at the workshop.Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary of Workshop DiscussionsIntroduction1 The International Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime2 Scope, Results, and Good Practices of the U.S.-RussianCooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Related Areas3 Impediments and Their Causes4 Tools for Overcoming Impediments to Cooperation5 ConclusionAppendix A: Statement of TaskAppendix B: Participants ListAppendix C: GlossaryAppendix D: Russian Background PaperAppendix E: American Background Paper