The National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (Russian: НЦУЯО, Национальный центр по уменьшению ядерной опасности) is part of the

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, and known also as ''The Directorate for Control of Agreements' Implementation'' (In Russian: ''Управление Министерства обороны Российской Федерации по контролю за выполнением договоров''). It has counterpart in Washington D.C. in the

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. The main task is the organization of work on the implementation of agreements in the field of Arms reduction and implementation of all the international agreements which were signed by the Russian Ministry of Defence. Sergei Ryzhkov is the current head of the Directorate.

History

On September 15, 1987, an agreement between the USA and USSR was signed for the establishment of National Centers for nuclear risk reduction in Moscow and Washington. Thus, On December 14, 1987 the Government of the Soviet Union established the NTsUYaO (Национальный центр по уменьшению ядерной опасности ,НЦУЯО) National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center which was subordinate under the Soviet Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. From its establishment the center has been tasked with informing the government about launches of missiles, but soon its tasks increased due to the

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with the United States about the removal and elimination of intermediate and short range missiles, from December 8, 1987. Shortly, after that the center become the primary body responsible for control and inspection of nuclear and strategic weapons in Soviet Union. Since February 24, 1988 the center has been active full time, and since April 1 in the same year, a hotline between the center and its US counterpart, the

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, was established. Its purpose was to create an additional channel of communication for the prevention of nuclear war, in addition to the Hot Line

and diplomatic channels. The Center is online 24 hours a day and relays information regarding the arms activities of both nations so as to prevent accidental outbreak of nuclear war. The Center is taking part in open skies agreements. The Treaty on Open Skies establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. It was signed in March 1992 and became one of the major confidence-building measures in

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after the Cold War. It entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 34 States Parties, including

and the majority of the

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countries. Moscow ratified the Treaty on Open Skies on May 26, 2001. The treaty allows its participants to openly gather information on each other's military forces and activities.

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* ttp://fas.org/nuke/control/nrrc/docs/nrrc1.htm Agreement between the United States Of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics On Establishment of Nuclear Risk Reduction Centersbr> Federation of American Scientists information on the NRRCs in Washington and Moscow
Ministry of Defence (Russia) Nuclear weapons governance Cold War history of the Soviet Union 1987 establishments in Russia

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