Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991

Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991,, was chartered to amend the Arms Export Control Act enacting the transfer of Soviet military armaments and ordnances to NATO marking the conclusion of the Cold War. The Act sanctions the Soviet nuclear arsenal displacement shall be in conjunction with the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. It funds the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
The United States legislation was passed by the 102nd Congress and enacted by U.S. President George H. W. Bush on 12 December 1991.

Provisions of the Act

The Act was penned as four titles with the principal titles as Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty Implementation Act of 1991 and Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991.

Subsequent developments

The subsequent developments listed here are a subset of the Belfer Center document entitled "Cooperative Threat Reduction Timeline".

On 21 December 1991, the CIS held a summit in Alma-Ata Kazakhstan, at which Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine signed the Agreement on Joint Measures on Nuclear Weapons, whereby Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus pledge to withdraw all tactical nuclear weapons to Russia by 1 July 1992, and Ukraine and Belarus pledged to eliminate strategic nuclear weapons on their territories by 1994 and to join the international Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as non-nuclear-weapons states. CIS members agree that Russia should succeed the USSR as permanent member of the UN Security Council.
17 June 1992 Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation
2 October 1999 Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Regarding Cooperation in the Area of Nuclear Material Physical Protection, Control, and Accounting
23 July 2008 law On the Ratification of the Protocols to the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of Weapons Proliferation of 17 June 1992, followed the protocol meeting of 16 June 2006. At the 2006 protocol meeting it was decided to extend the 1999 Agreement for seven years.