The International Science and Technology Centers, of which the United States is the leading sponsor, engaged 58,000 former weapons scientists in peaceful work.

The international science and technology center will provide assistance and training for scientists and engineers and organize exchange projects intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

The International Science and Technology Center participates in the WorldWideScience global science gateway.

Only Vector, the country's other leading former germ warfare center, has received more assistance from the international group, the International Science and Technology Center.

Aid from the United States, much of it channeled through a multinational group known as the International Science and Technology Center, now pays roughly half of the institute's costs.

This collaborative project is taking place under the financial and management authority of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow, in cooperation with several Russian research institutes.

The USA, European Communities (EC), Japan and Russia initialled an agreement establishing an international science and technology centre to employ ex-Soviet nuclear scientists.

Washington has also persuaded Europe and Japan to join the United States in financing the International Science and Technology Center, based in Moscow, which tries to find peaceful work for former weapons scientists.

He is also Chair of the Governing Board of International Science and Technology Center, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Moscow and is a member of the Department of Defense Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.

The White House also intends to expand State Department programs that help Russian scientists engage in peaceful work through the Moscow-based International Science and Technology Center, which the European Union and Japan also support, and other institutions.

The response of the Commission has been adequate in proposing to beef up the EURATOM Safeguards inspectorate and to develop closer links with the International Science and Technology Centre under the TACIS Programme.

He and Mr. Baker said the United States, Russia and Germany would establish in Russia "an international science and technology center that would support scientists and engineers of the former Soviet Union to redirect their talents to non-military endeavors."

"Some people say they don't want the Russians doing anything with nuclear power because they don't think the Russians can do anything well," said Glenn E. Schweitzer, the executive director of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow and an American expert on Russian science.