DEVELOPMENT, SECURITY, AND COOPERATION

Committee for Review of Research Proposals for Cooperation with Former Soviet Biological Weapons, Personnel and Institutes

Statement of Task

In 1996, the National Research Council established a committee to assist DOD in the development and implementation of a program of expanded scientific cooperation and exchange in peaceful applications of the biological sciences between American research scientists and Russian research scientists who had participated in the biological weapons program of the former Soviet Union. The committee reviews project proposals submitted to DOD by research scientists from Russia, suggesting potential collaborators from the Unites States, and evaluating results of collaborative projects. In order to carry out its tasks, selected committee members and staff undertake visits once per year to each of the Russian laboratories that are involved with the United States in Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR)-funded projects or are being considered for such involvement.

Committee Information

Publications

Controlling Dangerous Pathogens: A Blueprint for U.S.-Russian Cooperation

Also see our Current Projects page for more information about this project, or contact Sara Gray at sgray@nas.edu.