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Export Controls: Sales of High Performance Computers to Russia's Nuclear Weapons Laboratories

T-NSIAD-97-128 Published: Apr 15, 1997. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the sale of high performance computers to Russia's nuclear weapons laboratories, focusing on: (1) the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and its implications for high performance computer exports to Russian laboratories; (2) U.S. export regulations as they apply to the Russian nuclear weapons laboratories; (3) the Russian request for such computers during the summer of 1996; and (4) the executive branch's decision to return without action several export license applications for high performance computers to the Russian laboratories and the implications of that decision.

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Dual-use technologiesExport regulationForeign military sales policiesForeign trade policiesInternational trade restrictionLicensesNuclear proliferationNuclear weapons plantsSupercomputersComputers