Number: RL31953
Title: Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union
Authors: Amy F. Woolf, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: At issue in the debate over U.S. threat reduction and nonproliferation programs is not only the total amount of funding that the United States might commit to these programs in the former Soviet states, but also the priority and sense of urgency that the United States assigns to them. Further, Congress has identified the expansion of these programs as one of the key steps that might be taken to implement the 9/11 Commission Report's recommendations. Legislation prepared for consideration early in the 110th Congress, indicates that, among the steps that should be taken to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, the United States should ease the process of expanding these programs to other nations outside the former Soviet states. Both the House and the Senate are also poised to eliminate the certification requirements entirely in their versions of the FY2008 Defense Authorization Bills
Pages: 61
Date: March 26, 2008