Moscow DMZ: The Story of the International Effort to Convert Russian Weapons Science to Peaceful Purposes

As the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991 reports began to reach the West about agents shopping for weapons systems - and weapons scientists - in the beleaguered Soviet military-industrial complex. In response the United States the European Community and Japan in cooperation with the Russian government created a program to reemploy Soviet scientific personnel in civilian projects dealing with the legacy of the Soviet system - a polluted environment unsafe nuclear power facilities and economic underdevelopment. In this fascinating first-person account the American environmental scientist who led the effort to establish the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow tells the diplomatic scientific and human story behind a remarkable post-Cold War conversion initiative.