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Nuclear Weapons in Russia: Safety, Security, and Control Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Nov. 24, 2003
Report Number IB98038
Authors Amy F. Woolf, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

When the Soviet Union collapsed in late 1991, it reportedly possessed more than 27,000 nuclear weapons, and these weapons were deployed on the territories of several of the former Soviet republics. All have now been moved to Russia, but Russia still has around 6,000 strategic nuclear weapons and perhaps as many as 12,000 warheads for nonstrategic nuclear weapons. Some have proposed that the United States and Russia negotiate arms control agreements to reduce their stockpiles of nonstrategic nuclear weapons and to improve transparency and confidence in the elimination of those weapons. Others have proposed that the two sides agree to "de-alert" their strategic nuclear weapons to reduce the pressures and relieve concerns about Russia's nuclear command and control system.