Insurmountable waist high fence
But there’s still enough weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, in more than 100 buildings Nunn-Lugar experts have never made security upgrades to, to make thousands of nuclear weapons. Approximately a third of Russia’s weapons-grade and plutonium security has been upgraded thanks to Nunn-Lugar. The problem of the unopened crates was confirmed by these same officials, as well as by a US Government Acquisitions Office report, and it must be noted that such snags are an exception. To cut through this red tape, there were even discussions of simply allowing a Polaroid photograph of someone to stand in front of a newly installed fence holding a current newspaper to suffice as proof for the Pentagon that the equipment had been installed, former and current CTR and DOE officials told Bellona Web. A source at Russia’s Federal Security Service - the government counterintelligence service known as the FSB - told Bellona Web that the shipments could be packed with spy equipment. Plus, the Russians don’t want inspection teams from the Pentagon run CTR at the top-secret facilities where the security packages were headed.
INSURMOUNTABLE WAIST HIGH FENCE INSTALL
On the other side, Russia says it can’t pay workers to install the equipment. There is also no shortage of Pentagon hardliners - many of whom who would torpedo CTR over a long held view that subsidizing weapons destruction in Russia frees up money the Kremlin can divert to weapons development programmes.
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The Pentagon says it would be happy to help put the fences up, but its hands are tied by a US federal Law - the Federal Acquisitions and Regulations act (FAR), which prevents the US government from paying for work it can’t inspect. The fences and security equipment lay untouched because of joint bureaucratic ineptitude on the part of the Pentagon and Moscow which both have their own abstruse, pedantic points to make about future non-proliferation activities in Russia, analysts, suggest. While the MPC&A has ironed out its fiscal problems, the WPC&A has quietly become something of a political battlefield among warring hard line bureaucracies in Russia and the United States, and the fences and security equipment for Russian warhead sites are the spoils. Indeed, the Bush Whitehouse only requested $173 million for the programme in 2002, but when Congress passed a supplemental funding package that gave MPC&A another $120 million in Sept. 11, according to a recent report on the US administration’s non-proliferation budget published by the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council (RANSAC), a private organization that advises the two governments.
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It also has not had nearly the access problems that its CTR cousin has had.įor fiscal year 2003, the Bush administration has requested a total of $233 million for the MPC&A programme - a figure that would have been considerably lower had it not been for Sept. This programme resembles the Materials Protection, Cooperation and Accounting (MPC&A) run by the US Department of Energy (DOE), and is the Unites States’ flagship effort to secure, control and account for weapons-usable nuclear material in the former Soviet Union. Specifically, these stranded protection devices were paid for by the Weapons, Protection, Cooperation and Accounting (WPC&A) programme, which is run by CTR. It has also dismantled or destroyed more than 5,000 Soviet warheads, along with hundreds of ballistic missiles, bombers, submarines and silos.
INSURMOUNTABLE WAIST HIGH FENCE UPGRADE
These security supplies were furnished under Nunn-Lugar act - also known as the Cooperative Threat Reduction act (CTR) - which has spent approximately $5 billion the past decade of its existence to upgrade security around a third of Russia’s weapons grade plutonium and uranium.