* This paper has been prepared for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict by John Steinbruner, David Owen, Roald Sagdeev, David Hamburg, and Cyrus Vance and does not necessarily reflect the position of individual members of the Commission or their respective countries.
** A review of the problem and an assessment of disposition options was recently conducted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Its report, Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994), provides the technical basis for the suggested disclosure initiative.