Number: RS20203
Title: THE EXPANDED THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE FOR THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: ADMINISTRATION PROPOSALS FOR FY2000
Authors: Amy F. Woolf and Curt Tarnoff, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: Responding to the impact of Russia's financial crisis, President Clinton's budget requests $1 billion for FY2000 and $4.5 billion over five years for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons threat reduction programs in the former Soviet Union. The added funds in this Expanded Threat Reduction Initiative (ETR) - 35 percent over FY1999 levels - will augment many ongoing programs funded under Department of Defense, Energy and Water, and Foreign Operations appropriations and significantly expand efforts in science and technology nonproliferation. Some members of Congress may question the initiative's new priorities and some may question whether it serves U.S. national security and nonproliferation objectives.
Pages: 6
Date: Updated May 20, 1999