Online Exclusive
Papers, document collections, and memoirs prepared for Doomed to Cooperate and published online in full.
First Surety Technology Symposium, Snezhinsk, 1993. ↗Facing a page limit for the printed book, the editorial team made a commitment to publish online the papers and documents that did not make it into the print version. This section contains original paper submissions and collections of documents prepared for Doomed to Cooperate but not included in the print edition, as well as memories written by Americans of their involvement in international cooperation programs in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
Document collections
Records released for the first time: proposals, protocols, agendas, memoranda, and conference papers.
Early Lab-to-Lab in Five Documents
Five previously unpublished documents, from November 1991 to May 1992, that show how direct laboratory contacts were proposed, briefed in Washington, given ground rules, and organized.
Dale E. Nielsen Jr. Document Collections
Proposals, briefings, conference records, and agreements that document joint scientific and defense-conversion projects with the Russian laboratories.
Surety Technology Symposia
Programs, participant lists, joint memoranda, and press reports from the symposia that opened unclassified exchanges on nuclear weapons safety and security.
Papers
Original submissions to Doomed to Cooperate, published here in full.
Export Control: Lab-to-Lab Impact
How the laboratory network helped build export-control awareness and practice in the Russian nuclear complex during the 1990s.
Weapons Safety and Security Exchange (WSSX)
The full account behind Chapter 3 of the book: the people and projects of VNIIEF’s collaboration on nuclear weapons safety, with appendices and photographs.
Pulsed-Power Physics
Collaboration in pulsed-power-based high-energy-density physics: four VNIIEF papers and a listing of 25 years of joint publications.
Memoirs
Recollections written by Americans who worked in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Reminiscences of Russia
More than 25 years of scientific collaboration with VNIIEF in Sarov, from the first contacts in 1989 to the epilogue of 2006–2016.
Memories of Visits to Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Environmental conferences, the MOX fuel project, and later work for the ISTC and CRDF across Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.