INVESTIGATIONS OF NUCLEAR SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION

The project was launched in 1995. Its objectives are to track the most urgent and topical issues of nonproliferation of WMD, delivery systems and dual-use technologies and to promote public and academic awareness of these matters.

The PIR Center attracts to this work Russian leading experts having vast experience in investigations. The priority research areas are illicit trafficking in nuclear material, nuclear terrorism, brain drain and technology drain, and nuclear security problems.

The materials published within the framework of the project are:

• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 2, 2000. Yevgeny Antonov, “Chechnya: The Threat of WMD Terrorist Act”.

• “International Terrorism and Islamic Extremism: Southern Challenge?” Voprosy Bezopasnosti, Vol. 4, No. 22 (88), November 22, 2000.
• Report No. 21, June 2000. Dmitry Kovchegin, “Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear Material”.

• Yaderny Kontrol No. 5, 1999. Dmitry Litovkin, “The Indian Program for Nuclear Fleet Development: Cooperation with Russia”.
• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 2, 1998. Vladimir Orlov, Anna Otkina, “The Lessons of the Gyroscope Deal”.
• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 15, 1996. Vyacheslav Sharov, “Chechnya and the Realistic Threat of Nuclear Terrorism”.

• Yaderny Kontrol No. 11, 1995. “Andreyeva Guba: Another Case of Nuclear Theft Discovered”.

• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 9, 1995. Alexander Mytsikov, “Nuclear Theft and Nuclear Security: Documents of the Prosecutor’s General Office Speak”.

• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 2, 1995. Mikhail Kulik, “Some Problems of Nuclear Material Storage in the Northern Fleet”.
• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 2, 1995. Vladimir Orlov, “Nuclear Terrorism: The Item to Be Soon on the Agenda”.

• Yaderny Kontrol, No. 1, 1995. Vladimir Orlov, “Nuclear Deceptions: Qui Prodest?”

In the course of the project implementation, the PIR Center associates gave comments on the aforementioned topics to Russian and foreign media, including REN TV, Tel Aviv Radio (Russian Service), The Moscow Times, US News and World Report, Washington Post, Vedomosti, Focus, BBC Radio and Television, Springer, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Mayak, Iranian Radio, Strana.Ru, Toronto Star.

For more information contact Project Coordinator Dmitry Kovchegin, PIR Junior Research Associate, at kovchegin@pircenter.org or by phone (095) 234-0525 and fax (095) 234-9558.