Eliminating Stockpiles of Highly Enriched Uranium - Pugwash ...

Finally, a meeting was held with former Minister for Atomic Energy, Mr. Viktor
Mikhailov, currently Director of the Institute for Strategic Stability, in order to assess
the Russian view of the lessons from the existing US-Russian HEU deal and inquire
to which extent more materials can be declared excess and thus suitable for downblending.
In April and May 2003, a small caucus of the Study Group collected the
various contributions written by the members and completed a first draft that could be
circulated. The comments were circulated and various other experts were asked to
review certain technical issues and political assessments. Based on this feedback the
report was updated.
In July 2003, several of the members met in Halifax, Canada where they
participated in the International Pugwash Conference. This served as an opportunity
to sit down and go through the draft report in detail. In the course of August these
comments were incorporated in the report text.
Toward the end of November 2003 the findings of this report were presented
to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and discussed with a view to finalise the
work and submit a report to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in early 2004.
The report has been written by persons who are dedicated to nuclear
disarmament and non-proliferation. All co-authors have been very busy with their
daily activities in various countries and context. Therefore, it has taken longer to
finalize this report that was planned from the beginning. Nevertheless, the
engagement in this work has brought much new knowledge and information to all
who participated. Hopefully these pages will also constitute an in-put into the current
non-proliferation and disarmament agendas.
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