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PGS has produced concrete
results in preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
by influencing policy, creating new initiatives and institutions,
and focusing the attention of international and domestic policymakers
and the public on the importance of the cooperative threat reduction
agenda.
Examples of PGS's accomplishments since 1997 include:
Creating New Initiatives and Institutions
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Playing a significant role in the
development of the intellectual and political framework
that led to the creation of the U.S.-Russian Nuclear
Cities Initiative and the European Nuclear Cities
Initiative. Both efforts are focused on reducing
the size of Russia's nuclear weapons infrastructure
and providing alternative employment for scientists.
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Assisting in the creation
of new non-proliferation analytical centers at the
Russian nuclear institutes in Sarov and Obninsk
to facilitate the redirection of weapons scientists
and improve Russia's ability to address key proliferation
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Creating the Russian
Nuclear Complex Conversion Consortium to increase
NGO input into nuclear complex downsizing and work
force redirection efforts. |
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Influencing Policy
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Helping push the U.S. government to
provide additional nuclear security aid to Russia
in the wake of the ruble collapse in 1998. |
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Getting key recommendations
accepted for improving the pace and effectiveness
of the U.S. government program to improve the protection,
control, and accounting of fissile and other nuclear
material in Russia and the former Soviet states.
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Arguing successfully
for the U.S. government to provide additional resources
to accelerate the phase-out of highly-enriched uranium
as a fuel in Soviet-supplied research reactors.
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Developing support to
reverse the first major budget cuts in cooperative
threat programs in 2001, and helping generate a
congressional initiative that provided additional
funding for key nuclear security programs immediately
after the September 11th terrorist attacks. |
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Stimulating congressional
action on a range of controversial threat reduction
policy decisions, including the temporary non-certification
of Russia in 2002 that impeded the flow of U.S.
threat reduction assistance, and the 2003 abandonment
of the U.S.-Russian agreements on the Nuclear Cities
Initiative and plutonium disposition that threatens
these programs’ future. |
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Building political support
for threat reduction activities in the U.S. Congress
through a dedicated bi-partisan sponsored congressional
seminar series and regularly reporting on congressional
actions on threat reduction issues. |
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Defining a comprehensive
reform agenda for U.S.-Russian threat reduction
activities including an updated strategy for improving
overall implementation of the agenda over the next
decade. |
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Developing International Networks in Support of Threat
Reduction
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Cooperating with governments involved
in international threat reduction efforts, including
the U.S., Russia, and other G-8 nations, and important
government-related institutions and laboratories.
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Working closely with
the European Nuclear Cities Initiative’s International
Working Group.
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Promoting international
involvement in weapons complex downsizing and scientist
reemployment to the G-8 Global Partnership Against
the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.
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Cosponsoring international
conferences on key threat reduction issues with
foreign partner organizations. |
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Informing Policymakers and the Public
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Providing timely information to the
public, press, and political leaders through reports
and programmatic analyses, budget and congressional
updates and analyses, and an e-mail news service.
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Developing and maintaining
relationships with university-based technical experts
to help strengthen policy arguments and facilitate
the transfer of important technical analysis to
policymakers. |
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