PROPOSAL FOR BROADER UNITED STATES-RUSSIAN TRANSPARENCY OF NUCLEAR ARMS REDUCTIONS

During the January 1994 Summit Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin agreed on the goal of ensuring the \"transparency and irreversibility\" of the nuclear arms reduction process. As a result, negotiations are presently underway between the United States Government and the Russian Federation to confirm the stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium removed from nuclear weapons. In December 1994 the United States presented a paper to the Russian Federation proposing additional measures to provide broader transparency of nuclear arms reduction. The U.S. Department of Energy is studying the implementation of these broader transparency measures at appropriate DOE facilities. The results of the studies include draft protocols for implementation, assessments of the implementation procedures and the impacts on the facilities and estimates of the cost to implement these measures at various facilities.