Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Stanford University


Research at FSI Stanford


Industrial Restructuring and the Political Economy in Russia

CISAC Project (Completed)
1998-2003

Investigators
David M. Bernstein (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University
Linn E Schulte-Sasse

The nuclear cities have been isolated for security reasons for many decades, and this has also resulted in economic isolation. Their sole output has been research, materials, and hardware for nuclear weapons. As Russian government funding for these activities decreases, it is strongly in US interests to find productive civilian activities for the weapon scientists and technicians to discourage proliferation to aspiring nuclear weapon states. The best chance of doing this in a sustainable fashion is to help build the civilian economies of the cities.