Non-Proliferation

State Dept. Has ‘Potential Concerns’ Over U.S.-Russian Plutonium Disposal Pact

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The State Department has kept the moribund U.S.-Russian Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) in a congressionally mandated annual report of arms-control compliance concerns.
The agency expended some 80 words of the roughly 5,000-word Adherence…

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