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There were expectations that with the end of the Cold War the nuclear sword of Damocles would no longer hang over heads of all world’s peoples, and the accumulated arsenals of nuclear weapons will be eliminated. But now the world witnesses a dismantlement of the process for nuclear arms reductions, and even increasing reliance on nuclear weapons. At the same time, today nuclear weapons present enormous danger, even greater than during the Cold War because of the further proliferation, and especially of their getting into the hands of non-state terrorists. The most effective way to respond to this danger is a repair of nuclear arms control regime and taking an effort aimed at complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

Anatoli Diakov is a Professor of physics and Director of the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Diakov has written papers on nuclear arms reductions, the history of Russia’s plutonium production, disposition options for excess plutonium, and the feasibility of converting Russia’s icebreaker reactors from highly enriched to low-enriched uranium as well as on many other topics relating to nuclear arms control and disarmament.