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- Title
UK & Russia sign Memorandum of Understanding.
- Abstract
This article reports on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Great Britain's Department of Trade and Industry and the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency. The Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership program (CNCP) between Great Britain and Russia is working with six of Russia's Closed Nuclear Cities, which were created in the Cold War to develop the Russian nuclear weapons program. Due to restructuring and downsizing, they are facing many thousands of job losses. CNCP has already given green signal to grant projects that will create around 350 new jobs in four of the cities and there is the potential to create thousands more jobs. The CNCP program with a yearly spend of £ 3 million is part of Great Britain's contribution to a $20 billion pledge by the G8 countries designed to counter proliferation of nuclear material and concerns about nuclear safety and ecological matters in the former Soviet Union. It targets to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction by supporting the long-term economic viability of the cities and promoting alternative employment opportunities.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; UNITED Kingdom; MEMORANDUMS; NUCLEAR arms control; NUCLEAR weapons (International law); INTERNATIONAL relations, 1945-1989; COLD War, 1945-1991; NO first use (Nuclear strategy); NUCLEAR warfare; WEAPONS of mass destruction
- Publication
Nuclear Future, 2005, Vol 1, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1745-2058
- Publication type
Article