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Published online 30 January 2008 | Nature 451, 506 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451506b
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Cash for Russian nuclear scientists criticized
US payments to beat proliferation attacked as ineffective.
A post-cold-war US programme that pays nuclear weapons scientists from the former Soviet Union to prevent them working for 'rogue' states has come under fire in Congress, after a governmental investigative report questioned its usefulness.
The Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) programme run by the Department of Energy (DOE) pays nuclear scientists in Russia, Ukraine, Libya, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Iraq to work on non-proliferation technologies with potential commercial applications.
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