Topic: Conflict and Security

A Comprehensive Nuclear Arms Reduction Regime: Interim Report (2001) - The study up to this point primarily focused on the technical aspects of a potential nuclear arms monitoring regime, including specific monitoring...

Advances in Technology and the Prevention of their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents (2005) - The risks posed by bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological weapons capabilities have increased concern about how the rapid advances in...

An Assessment of the International Science and Technology Center: Redirecting Expertise in Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Former Soviet Union (1996) - The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) was established to help address a perceived crisis that was created by the dissolution of the...

Balancing and Sharing Political Power in Multiethnic Societies: Summary of a Workshop (1993) - This report summarizes discussions at a workshop, “Balancing and Sharing Political Power in Multiethnic Societies,” held in Moscow on January 25–27,...

Biological Threats and Terrorism: Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities: Workshop Summary (2002) - In the wake of September 11th and recent anthrax events, our nations bioterrorism response capability has become an imminent priority for...

Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security (1989) - Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in every major area of...

Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies - The NRC Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies addresses (1) characteristics of peaceful management of tensions in...

Conflict and Resolution in Multiethnic Societies: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2003) - In February 2000, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) proposed to the U. S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that the academies initiate a joint...

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blueprint for U.S.-Russian Cooperation, A Report to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense (1997) - A 14-member committee was formed which included members of a Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) working group, the co-chair...

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blueprint for U.S.-Russian Cooperation, A Report to the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense (Russian version, 1997) - A 14-member committee was formed which included members of a Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) working group, the co-chair...

Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States: Proceedings of a Workshop - In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of...

Crisis Management in the Nuclear Age (1987) - Despite 40 years of the nuclear arms race, the US and Soviet Union succeeded in avoiding nuclear war. Because the consequences of such a war would...

Determination of High-Resolution Structures for the Post-Genomic Age (2001) - The U.S. National Research Council sponsored an intensive lab course for researchers from Central/Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States....

Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era (1994) - This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use...

Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided Societies (1999) - This work examines whether the choice of an electoral system in a culturally plural society can affect the potential for future violent conflict. We...

End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States (2003) - This report provides an analysis of the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in Russia and the United States, describing...

Establishing Priorities for US-Russian Cooperation in Countering Radiological Terrorism - An ad hoc committee will be established to develop recommendations for priorities for US-Russian cooperation to be considered by the Department of...

Finding Common Ground: U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment (1999) - Protecting U.S. security by controlling technology export has long been a major issue. But the threat of the Soviet sphere is rapidly being...

Forced Migration and Mortality (2001) - In recent years the number of complex humanitarian emergencies around the world has been increasing. War and political, ethnic, racial, and religious...

Future Contributions of the Biosciences to Public Health, Agriculture, Basic Research, Counter-terrorism, and Non-Proliferation Activities in Russia - ...

High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002) - In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a high-technology society...

International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (2000) - In the early 1990s many observers had begun to wonder to what extent the conventional wisdom about international conflict resolution, developed from...

Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters (2002) - Admittedly, the world and the nature of forced migration have changed a great deal over the last two decades. The relevance of data accumulated...

Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan: Report of the Defense Task Force (1995) - The environment surrounding the U.S.-Japan alliance and defense technology cooperation has changed considerably. Most American and Japanese experts...

Molecular Interactions of Proteins and DNA: An Intensive Lecture/Laboratory Course (2003) - The Academies organized an intensive course on the Molecular Interactions of Proteins and DNA at the Institute of Biotechnology in Vilnius,...

Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues (1985) - This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present...

Preventing Terrorists from Obtaining Nuclear Materials in Russia - ...

Proliferation Concerns: Assessing U.S. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union (1997) - The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities...

Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia (1999) - A major technical impediment confronting a nation or group bent on developing nuclear weapons is the difficulty of obtaining the necessary direct-use...

Review of Cooperative Projects with Former Soviet Union Biological Weapons Institutes - The National Research Council will continue its committee activity in assisting the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in the development and...

Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel - The report looks at technologies that can destroy entire munitions -- rockets, land mines, mortars, and projectiles -- and those that can handle only...

Reykjavik and Beyond: Deep Reductions in Strategic Nuclear Arsenals and the Future Direction of Arms Control (1988) - No more important issue faces us today than the future success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. Reykjavik and Beyond represents the...

Soviet-American Dialogue in the Social Sciences: Research Workshops on Interdependence Among Nations (1990) - This report is the first published product of a collaborative effort sponsored by the US National Research Council and the Academy of Sciences of the...

Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002) - In October 2000 the Department of Energy (DOE), the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), and the National Research Council (NRC) agreed that...

Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (2002) - For this report, the committee’s charge was to review the state of knowledge about the three main technical concerns raised during the Senate debate...

The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship (1991) - The United States and the Soviet Union could drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals below the levels prescribed by the new Strategic Arms...

Transnational Organized Crime: Summary of a Workshop (1999) - Crime is becoming increasingly international. The rates for many crimes in the developed countries of the West are quite similar and appear in...

U.S. - Chinese Glossary of Nuclear Security Terms - Many of the nuclear safety and security issues the United States and China seek to address are highly technical and discussion of these issues is...

U.S.-German Cooperation in Elimination of Excess Weapons Plutonium (1995) - In the process of nuclear arms reduction, the US and Russia are left with an excess of uranium and plutonium weapons materials. This excess material...

U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism - The International Atomic Energy Agency reports numerous incidents of illicit trafficking in radioactive materials, including ionizing radiation...