Managing Across Boundaries
Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) Grants Fund Joint Research Projects of American and ex-Soviet Scientists
The Henry L. Stimson Center's Cooperative Nonproliferation (CNP) project aims to raise public awareness across the country about the vital contribution being made by threat reduction programs in addressing US security needs. A core objective of the project is to conduct interviews with US companies and academic institutions that are directly involved in CNP programs and feature their “success stories” in opinion pieces, guest columns and feature stories in local and regional newspapers as well as trade magazines. These stories aim to illustrate the importance of threat reduction, not only to broad US national security interests, but also to regional economies throughout the United States. As profiled in these stories, these efforts help address proliferation threats, create jobs, and redirect the expertise of former weapons scientists to peaceful, civilian pursuits.
The U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) is a non-profit organization established in 1995 by the National Science Foundation, with congressional authorization, to promote public-private partnerships in an effort to help WMD scientists and research facilities transition to peaceful pursuits in collaboration with US institutions.
CRDF awarded renewable cooperative grants that initially provide two years of funding, worth approximately $65,000, to the academic institutions featured in the interviews below. The Henry L. Stimson Center conducted the interviews with American scientists that were or are currently working on collaborative research projects with scientists previously employed by the Soviet weapons complex.
Click on an interview below to learn more about the vital research being conducted by CRDF grantees in the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Interviews:
Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Partner Institution: Kyrgyz Institute of Seismology, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Integrated Investigation of Active Deformation in the Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyz Republic: Neotectonics, Earthquake Geology, and Seismology
University of California, Santa Barbara(Santa Barbara, CA)
Exploration of Chemistry of Environmentally Friendly Decontamination
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Partner Institution: St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
Precision Measurement of the Singlet mu-p Capture Rate in Hydrogen Gas
University of Delaware (Lewes, DE)
Partner Institution: Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine
Developoment of a Microelectrode for Scientific Marine Measurements