Russia
In Russia, MAB undertook several comprehensive lessons-learned analyses of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs. It proposed an innovative series of recommendations designed to ensure long term success and sustainability of these programs, and ensure that weapons of mass destruction do not fall into the hands of terrorists. MAB also helped pioneer a new approach to industry engagement that would facilitate market-based engagement of former weapons specialists across the states of the former Soviet Union.
Current Research
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Manufacturing Possibility
Existing nonproliferation programs aimed at redirecting former Soviet weapons scientists must be complemented by a new model that is based on the creation of incentives for private companies to employ these scientists. Implementation of the public-private partnership model proposed in this report would establish a mechanism to integrate and serve nonproliferation, economic
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Scientific Cooperation to Meet Grand Challenges: Valuating Russian Scientific Strength
The following study relied on Essential Science Indicators Sci-bytes and Web of Science, products offered by Thomson Scientific, in order to determine the areas of science in which Russia is the most competitive.
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Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster
This book provides a critical and contemporary assessment of the programs intended to reduce the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons' proliferation risks stemming from collapse of the Former Soviet Union (FSU). These risks include an alarming volume of unsecured materials that could be easily stolen by terrorists and used in weapons production, and the urgent need to
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