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2018 The International Institute for Strategic Studies
DIRECTOR-GENERAL AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE Dr John Chipman
EDITOR Dr Nicholas Redman
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Nicholas Payne
EDITORIAL Jill Lally, Gaynor Roberts, Sam Stocker
COVER/PRODUCTION John Buck, Kelly Verity
COVER IMAGE: Top: US President Lyndon B. Johnson (far right) watches Secretary of State Dean Rusk sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1 July 1968 (Corbis via Getty Images)
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ADELPHI series
ISSN 1944-5571
ADELPHI 464465
ISBN 978-1-138-36636-7
This volume is the product of research conducted under a collaborative project with the Centre Russe dEtudes Politiques on reinforcing and sustaining USRussia cooperation for non-proliferation. The editors wish to express their sincere gratitude to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for its support of this project and for recognising the need to build a new cadre of US and Russian experts equipped to address present and future nuclear challenges.
As part of this project, the authors presented the case studies in this volume at a series of Track 1.5 workshops on USRussia cooperation for non-proliferation in 2016 and 2017. These meetings brought together practitioners, experts and graduate students from both countries to examine how and why the superpowers collaborated on nuclear issues during the Cold War and the two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union and to explore prospects for resuming joint work in this domain. The editors are very grateful to the workshop participants for sharing their insights, comments and suggestions derived in many instances from their first-hand experiences. In addition, they wish to thank the many former US and Soviet/Russian government officials who gave their time and advice on this project.
The case studies presented in this volume capture significant and often overlooked examples of the rich history of USSoviet cooperation for non-proliferation. It is hoped that they will lead to greater recognition in Washington and Moscow of the prospects for future collaboration on non-proliferation issues even when the political environment is severely strained.
Finally, the editors wish to express their thanks to Annelise Plooster for her editorial assistance.