Weapons Dismantlement Activities of the United States and the Former Soviet Union

This paper was presented during the plenary session of INMM's 33rd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla. The subject raised for discussion at the INMM Annual Meeting is directly related to — I would even say predetermined by — the current state of the whole disarmament process. The latter has recently acquired such a scale that we may quite legitimately talk about essential qualitative changes related to it. Previously, if we first dealt with limiting further growth of armaments and only then with their reduction, at this stage we are facing a situation where the parties to the disarmament process, to a greater extent ever, are commencing the actual destruction of armaments. Initially, this included delivery systems of mass destruction weapons. Now the time has come for eliminating the lethal charges themselves that are dismantled from their delivery systems.