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Vincent Basler |
Since the end of the Cold War, an internationally-funded race has been on to help Russia secure and destroy its nuclear arsenal as envisioned by the START treaty as well as to help Moscow deal with the environmental consequences of 40 years of preparation for nuclear war. This section supplied background and articles on the ever more numerous programmes that have been set up bi-laterally and mulit-laterally with Russia to achieve these goals.
Murmansk region hosted several meetings on nuclear and radiation safety last week.
The Norwegian government plans to allocate 110 million Norwegian crowns ($16m) for the implementation of nuclear and radiation security programs in Russia in 2006.
In January 2006, Norway announced last month that it has stopped investing, via its state pension fund, in seven companies which it says are involved in the production of nuclear weapons as those activities violate fundamental humanitarian principles, the BBC reported.