Radioactive Waste in the Nordic and Far East Seas; a Soviet

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Legacy with International Environmental and National Security

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Repercussions

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Center for Counterproliferation Research, National Defense University

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INTRODUCTION

Between 1959 and 1991, the Soviet Union engaged in an aggressive initiative to design, develop,

and deploy nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs in support of national security objectives.

The focused, single-minded approach of the Soviet's nuclear effort, and the urgency of their

developments rejected any considerations of cost: financial, human, or environmental. As a result,

radioactive waste management received virtually no attention, and nuclear waste disposal was

conducted in a criminally negligent fashion.