Strategic Offensive Arms Elimination and Weapons Protection , Control , and Accounting Special Report
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Dr. John W.R.. Lepingwell is Senior Scholar-in-Residence and Manager of the Newly Independent States (NIS) Nonproliferation Databases in the NIS Nonproliferation Project at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). Prior to joining CNS in 1996, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Nikolai Sokov is a Senior Research Associate at CNS. From 1987-92, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and Russia, during which time he participated in the START I and START II negotiations.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000