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Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy A Half-Century of U.S.-Russian Interacademy Cooperation (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix E: Joint Statement by the Presidents of the U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences [on Preventing and Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Material], February 22, 2002
Pages 122-124

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... A decade ago, the governments of the United States and Russia recognized the importance of cooperative efforts to help ensure that nuclear weapons and weapons-grade nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union were adequately protected from theft or diversion. The decision to act came at a time when an economic crisis had seriously reduced the resources available for maintaining security systems and personnel at nuclear facilities.
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From page 123...
... Congress to restore funding and a high priority to the joint activities in this domain. They provide the basis for the Russian and American governments to accelerate their cooperative programs to ensure adequate security of all nuclear weapons and weapons-grade material throughout Russia.
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... These joint activities will continue the long-standing cooperation between the Russian Academy of Science and the National Academies in support of their governments' efforts to respond to urgent international security problems. The Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academies call on the national academies of sciences of all countries possessing nuclear weapons or using radiological materials to cooperate with them in this most important sphere of national and international security.
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