Russia

The Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis: Incapacitants and Chemical Warfare

Russian special police use incapacitating gas to stop Chechen terrorists.

“Suitcase Nukes:” A Reassessment

Russian official admits government is missing an unknown number of portable nuclear devices, suitcase nukes.

Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors, www.antiatom.ru with permission

Russian Floating Nuclear Reactors – Proliferation Risks

Construction of Russia’s first floating nuclear power plants is moving ahead.

CNS Releases Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

Report on growing concerns that terrorists could gain access to laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus and use them as a deadly weapon.

Release of a Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

Release of a Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

The first authoritative English translation of the report is now available.

Challenges in US-Russian Cooperation

The United States and Russia have to adjust old patterns of thinking to new political realities in order to further cooperation on nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation.

CNS article

OP#09: The 1971 Smallpox Epidemic in Aralsk, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet Biological Warfare Program

Occasional Paper #9: The first authoritative English translation of an official Soviet report describing a previously unknown outbreak of smallpox in 1971 in the city of Aralsk, Kazakhstan.

Controversy Nuclear Testing

Renewed US-Russian Controversy over Nuclear Testing

Increased transparency measures are needed of both countries.

Public Finance in the Closed Cities of Russia

The system of closed nuclear cities has fiscally weakened Russia’s ability to become a true federation.

2002 Workshop on Russian Nuclear Regionalism and US Policy

The research teams presented findings and recommendations on US nonproliferation programs that focus on regional facilities.