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The human dimension

Overview
The Human Dimension to Kazakhstan’s Plutonium Mountain
Cooperation in a Closed Nuclear City
Not by Bread Alone: Notes on the Margins of Collaboration
Second Chances
American Poems in Sarov
Memories of Visits to Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Recollections of Nuclear Cooperation
Averting a Baltic Sea Disaster
Lab-to-Lab cooperation between Russia and U.S. on nuclear export controls
The Beginnings of the American Lab-to-Lab Export Control Interactions
Here and There, Now and Then
Winter in Sarov
The Special Thing
Poems of Sarov and Los Alamos
Ballads from Lab-to-Lab Visits
The Walking Stick
Humor and Personal Recollections
The Curious Incident of the Dosimeter in the Day-Time

Interviews

Overview
Interview with Nerses (Krik) Krikorian
Interview with Olga Martin
Interview with Harry Dreicer
Interview with Hugh Casey
Interview with Molly Cernicek
Interview with Thomas Bowles
Interview with Robert Thomsen
Interview with John Ruminer
Interview with Dennis J. (Denny) Erickson and Paul C. White
Interview with Deniece Korzekwa and Franz Freibert
Interview with Jim Sprinkle
Interview with Sara Scott
Interview with Loren (Jake) Jacobson
A Conversation with Lev Dmitrievich Ryabev
Roundtable on the Warhead Safety and Security Exchange Agreement

Contributor directory

Documents

Overview
Early Lab-to-Lab in Five Documents
Joint Conferences on Computational Methods
Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement
LANL–VNIIEF Collaboration in Pulsed-Power and High-Energy-Density Physics: Publications and Presentations
Joint Laboratory Proposals for Nuclear Safety and Scientific Cooperation
Joint Statement on the Joint Verification Experiment
Joint Verification Experiment Airlift Fact Sheet
Joint Verification Experiment: News Media Itinerary
Agreement on the Conduct of a Joint Verification Experiment
Cooperative Threat Reduction Umbrella Agreement
Warhead Safety and Security Exchange Agreement
Summary of the U.S. and Russian Nuclear Design Laboratories’ Exchange Visit
VNIIA–U.S. Laboratories Cooperation Memorandum (Russian)
Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting Agreement
Agreement Establishing the International Science and Technology Center
PDD/NSC-47: Nuclear Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Russia
What Happened at the Avangard Plant: Official Explanation
Aloka Dosimeter Calibration Results
U.S.–Russian Venture Proposal and Correspondence
The Cerro Grande Fire: Presentation to Russian Colleagues
A Proposal to Reduce Proliferation Risks from Soviet Weapons Scientists
Laboratory-to-Laboratory Discussions: Purpose, Criteria, and Ground Rules
Moscow Meeting on Laboratory Cooperation and Defense Conversion
Russian Laboratory Directors’ Visit to Los Alamos: Agenda
Russian Laboratory Directors’ Visit to Livermore: Draft Agenda
Arzamas-16 Opens Its Gates … Briefly
Russian Ladies Give and Get Much
First Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Agenda
JCCM-1: Algorithm Development I — Full Papers
JCCM-1: Applications — Full Papers
JCCM-1: Algorithm Development II — Full Papers
JCCM-1: Applied Mathematics and Analysis — Full Papers
JCCM-1: High-Performance Computing — Full Papers
JCCM-1: Distributed Computing — Full Papers
Second Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Agenda
Third Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Attendees
Notes on I. D. Sofronov’s Opening Talk
Third Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Agenda
Proposal to Resume the Joint Computational Mathematics Conferences
Fifth Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Agenda
Five-Laboratory Conference: Overview and Participant List
Five-Laboratory Conference: Attendee Photograph Key
Fourth Joint Conference on Computational Mathematics: Abstracts
LLNL Science and Technology Cooperation Funding, 1995–2002
Historical Overview of Lab-to-Lab Interactions, 1991–2002
Why the United States and Russia Need Computer Simulation
Face-to-Face Meetings in Defining Joint Research Projects
Laptop Computers in Joint Project Work
Second Surety Technology Symposium: Joint Memorandum
Third Surety Technology Symposium: Sarov Newspaper Report
Russian–American Safety Technology Workshop: Program
VNIITF–U.S. Laboratories Safety Technology Memorandum
First Surety Technology Symposium: Program
First Surety Technology Symposium: Participants
First Surety Technology Symposium: Concluding Memorandum
Third Surety Technology Symposium: Program
Third Surety Technology Symposium: Joint Memorandum
Cold War Rivals Talk Shop Here
VNIIEF–U.S. Laboratories Safety Technology Memorandum
Third Surety Technology Symposium: Participants

Accounts & essays

Overview
Memories of Visits to Russia and the Former Soviet Union
The Story of a Cover Photo
Not by Bread Alone: Notes on the Margins of Collaboration
The Curious Incident of the Dosimeter in the Day-Time
Second Chances
Here and There, Now and Then
The Walking Stick
Winter in Sarov
The Special Thing
30 Years Since a Historic Breakthrough
Reminiscences of Russia
Symposia
Lawry and Alice Mann
Recollections of Nuclear Cooperation
Averting a Baltic Sea Disaster
Lab-to-Lab cooperation between Russia and U.S. on nuclear export controls
The Beginnings of the American Lab-to-Lab Export Control Interactions
The VNIIEF and LANL Interaction in Thermonuclear Fusion Using MAGO Systems
Experimental Studies of Magnetized Thermonuclear Plasma: Our Experience in International Collaboration
The High-Energy Liner Experiment
International Collaboration in Ultra-High Magnetic Field Investigations
Cooperation in a Closed Nuclear City
The Human Dimension to Kazakhstan’s Plutonium Mountain
Russian-American Collaboration: The Transition to Peacetime Work
Foreword to Doomed to Cooperate
Epilogue to Doomed to Cooperate
The Human Dimension: The Interpersonal Nature of Lab-to-Lab Cooperation
U.S.–Russian Teamwork Kept Nuclear Weapons Safe (Russian)
Summary of VNIIEF Joint Nuclear Safety Projects
Key Russian Leaders in Nuclear Weapons Safety Cooperation
Poems of Sarov and Los Alamos
Ballads from Lab-to-Lab Visits
Humor and Personal Recollections
American Poems in Sarov

Photos

Overview
Joint Verification Experiment at the Nevada Test Site
Vladimir Afanasiev’s Nuclear Safety Collection
Nuclear Safety Projects: Snezhinsk
Laboratory Directors’ Exchange Visits
High-Energy-Density Experiments
Albuquerque and Sarov
Moscow, Ekaterinburg, and Snezhinsk
Livermore and Pleasanton

Videos

Overview
VNIIEF First visit Oct 13, 1990
Stillman and Krikorian (LANL) at VNIIEF to explore scientific collaboration, Dec. 1991
Jan 1992. Lindemuth and Reinovsky visit to discuss collaboration in thermonuclear fusion
Feb 1992 Hecker and Nuckolls pay return Lab Directors visit
Feb. 1992 Sig Hecker speaks at the banquet dinner at VNIIEF
Sept. 1993. First experiment successfully completed!

Online Exclusive

Overview
Early Lab-to-Lab in Five Documents
Export Control
Dale E. Nielsen Jr. Document Collections
Symposia
Weapons Safety and Security Exchange (WSSX)
Physics
Reminiscences of Russia
Memories of Visits to Russia and the Former Soviet Union