RUSSIAN NUCLEAR EXPERTS WROTE REPORT FOR U.S.

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Term Paper Title	RUSSIAN NUCLEAR EXPERTS WROTE REPORT FOR U.S.
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RUSSIAN NUCLEAR EXPERTS WROTE REPORT FOR U.S.

     THE WASHINGTON POST

        MOSCOW -- Less than a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of Russia's top
     atomic-weapons scientists agreed to sell to the United States a massive, secret study of Soviet nuclear-weapons
     testing, providing firsthand information about Cold War events stretching over more than four decades, according
     to documents and interviews with key Russian participants.

        The history project, which was led by Alexander Tchernyshev, a theoretical physicist at Russia's first
     nuclear-weapons laboratory, remains shrouded in secrecy both in Russia and the United States.

        But the scope of the project -- a detailed, 2,000-page history of 715 Soviet nuclear tests over 41 years -- is
     unprecedented, and appears to have given the United States valuable insights into Soviet military and scientific
     procedures. It could also help U.S. specialists better prepare to monitor any future nuclear explosions by rogue
     states that defy a new ban on nuclear tests.

        Starting in December 1992, Tchernyshev and about 200 other scientists wrote the history under contract to
     the U.S. Defense Special Weapons Agency for a fee of $288,501. At the time, the scientists were suffering
     economically and the United States was trying to prevent them from taking their nuclear-weapons know-how
     elsewhere.

        The information th...

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