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This is congressional testimony for a hearing on "Stemming the Plutonium Tide: Limiting the Accumulation of Weapon-Usable Nuclear Material" before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights, House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 23, 1994. The prepared statement focuses on three areas. What are the problems arising from the spread of plutonium? Are the steps being taken by the United States and other countries sufficient to stem the plutonium tide? What other measures need to be implemented by the United States and other countries?

Soviet efforts to end the Cold War were intended to help revitalize the USSR. Instead, Nick Bisley argues, they contributed crucially to its collapse. Using historical-sociological theory, The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse shows that international confrontation had been an important element of Soviet rule and that the retreat from this confrontational posture weakened institutional-functional aspects of the state. This played a vital role in making the USSR vulnerable to the forces of economic crisis, elite fragmentation and nationalism which ultimately caused its collapse.