U.S. Assistance programs for improving MPC&A in the former Soviet Union

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Notes

The author wishes to thank the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hoover Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation for funding this research; Nicholas Burns and Chip Blacker, for providing encouragement to pursue these subjects; Jerry Dzakowiz, for constant support; Matthew Bunn and Frank von Hippel, for providing tutorials and the constant motivation to do more; the members of the MPC&A and Nuclear Smuggling In‐teragency Working Groups, for insights on how government works; the many Russian and U.S. government officials who consented to be interviewed and provided comments on this chapter, especially William Alberque and Kate Baur Bricker of the Department of Energy; Tatiana Krasnopevtseva, for helping to formulate and translate questions for interviews in Moscow; and John Shields, William Potter, Richard Combs, and Laura Holgate for their useful comments on earlier drafts of this study.