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The Russian Tie We Can't Cut

| Aug. 12, 2014

“I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.” So said President Obama last March, weighing the danger of nuclear terrorism against that of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Yet our research shows that his administration proposes cutting the amount of money spent on an array of programs to secure nuclear bomb materials around the world and keep them out of terrorists’ hands — to $555 million next year from $700 million in fiscal 2014. And in both houses of Congress, there are efforts to legislate a suspension of nuclear security cooperation with Russia...

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For Academic Citation: Tobey, William H., Matthew Bunn and Nickolas Roth.“The Russian Tie We Can't Cut.” The New York Times, August 12, 2014.

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