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CITATION AND REPRODUCTION This document appears as Discussion Paper 2003-02 of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. BCSIA Discussion Papers are works in progress. Comments are welcome and may be directed to the author in care of the Center. Electronic copies of this report are available through the Center’s website, listed below. This paper may be cited as: Simon Saradzhyan. “Russia: Grasping Reality of Nuclear Terror.” BCSIA Discussion Paper 2003-02, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 2003. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and publication does not imply their endorsement by BCSIA and Harvard University. This paper may be reproduced for personal and classroom use. Any other reproduction is not permitted without written permission of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. To obtain more information, please contact: Michelle Von Euw Editor, ISP Discussion Paper Series International Security Program Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 telephone (617) 495-1914; facsimile (617) 496-4403 email is@harvard.edu. http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Simon Saradzhyan graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 2002 with a Master in Public Administration degree and presently works as news editor at The Moscow Times, an English-language daily in Moscow. His primary research interests are non-proliferation, security, defense and space affairs in the former Soviet Union. 2
CO-SPONSORS The cosponsors of this report invite liberal use of the information provided in it for educational purposes, given proper citation. U.S.-Russian Nonproliferation Working Group Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/bcsia Nuclear Threat Initiative 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 7 th Floor Washington, D.C. 20006 http://www.nti.org NOTE FROM AUTHOR The author would like to thank Professor Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for his insightful guidance and generous advice, Matthew Bunn, assistant director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for his insightful input and generous advice, Dmitry Kovchegin, research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for his advice, and Danielle Lussier, research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for her generous advice as well as for editing this paper. 3
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