Countering Russian Chemical and Biological Threats

ISN/CTR sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Antiterrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD), related delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons proliferation and security threats from proliferator states and nonstate actors. The United States has determined that Russia is in non-compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, as indicated by its use of nerve agent in the poisonings of Sergei Skripal and Alexey Navalny, Russia retains an undeclared chemical weapons program. The United States has also concluded that the Russian Federation has failed to fulfill its Article II obligation to destroy or to divert to peaceful purposes and assessed that Russia maintained an offensive biological weapons program in violation of Article I of the Convention.