Entrepreneurial Proliferation: Russia's Nuclear Industry Suits the Buyers Market

摘要

The Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, bringing an end to four decades ofthe Cold War. A system of tight centralized controls has given way to chaotic freedom and un-managed, entrepreneurial capitalism. Of immediate concern to most world leaders has been the control and safety of over 30,000 Soviet nuclear weapons. After 1991, the Soviet, centralized system of management lost one key structural element: a reliable 'human factor' for nuclear material control. The Soviet systems for physical security and material control are still in place in