Review of Cooperative Projects with Former Soviet Union Biological Weapons Institutes
Project Summary

The National Research Council will continue its committee activity in assisting the U.S. Department of Defense (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 foreign counterparts who had participated in the biological weapons program of the former Soviet Union. The committee will review project proposals submitted to DOD by research scientists from the former Soviet Union, suggest potential collaborators from the United States, and evaluate results of collaborative projects.

In order to carry out its tasks, selected committee members and staff will undertake visits once per year to each of the former Soviet laboratories that are involved with the United States in Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR)-funded projects or are being considered for such involvement. At the beginning of its work, the committee will be briefed by DOD entities concerning their interests and objectives.

For more information, please contact Glenn Schweitzer at gschweit@nas.edu, or visit our current projects system.