CO 5 719 6 ' 7 G IED- U S Department · of State Case No F-2015-00561 Doc No C05719676 Date 08 21 2015 ' -· RELEASE IN FULL sEC RET ' MIDS PRINT REQUESTED BY OSDl AT CRT 123 PAGE 1 ' AAAAA AAA H-AAA AAAAAAAAAA S E C R I T SPECAT 'lrlr w · cosH NID715 MCN a 93190 10809 TOR c 93190221a ·Fl'STOR 683660000 ortSZYUW RUEHCM8814 · 1902212·SSSS·-RUEKHID ZNY SSSSS BBBBB ZZH o 09220SZ JUL 93 iM SECSTATE WASH INFO DOD WASBDC IMMEDIATE BT JJL I 2 1933 RODIS NOBIS DECAPT ONED u LW f YES ONLY FOR SHERFIELD FOLLOWING MOSCOW 20178 DATED 07 03 93 SENT ACT ION SECSTATE BEING REPEATED FOR YOUR IlfFO •I QDOTE SEC RI T MOSCOW 020178 HODIS E O 12356 OADR TAGS PREL PABM MHUC MTCRE US RS SUBJECT YELTSIN TOKYO UIRAIHE NUCLEAR DEAL MICR 1 SECRET - ENTIRE 'IEX'l' 2 St MKARY -AMBASSADOR TALBOTT DELIVERED PRESIDENT CLINTON'S MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT YELTSIN OH TH NUCLIWl TESTING MORATORIUM AND lf GO'tIATIONS FOR A CTB FOR WHICH YELTSIN UPUSSED HIS GRAflTUDE YELTSIN DESCRIBED PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR DJ SKAHTLEMD't AND THEN 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Nunn-Lugar collection of the National Security Archive DISPERSED TO SEVERAL HEW CIS STATES OP 'n1E FOBMEK SOVIET UHIOH BUT WAS ND'l' PREPARED TO AGREE TO U S µHGUAGZ- ON INDIA RE HADE THE CASE THAT CONTRACTS PRE•EXISTED U S LAW AND HE PROPOSED A TRANSirIOH P ltIOD UNTIL JANUARY 1994 BEFORE MODIFICATIONS TO CONTRACT TO CUT on TRANSFER OF P DUCTIOH TECJilfOLOCY COME INTO EFFECT ElfD SUMMARY CO 719 97 6 IED • PAGE U' S Departme t of St te C se No F-2015-00561 Doc No C05719676 Date 08 21 2015 3 ' H tiAAAAiAAAAAAAAAiwk ti S I C ll B T SPECAT H tAiAAAAAiHA1WrA AAAAA AAAAA RUSSIA WOULD HELP DISABLE K SSILE SILOS IN 1J1CRAINE WHICH UlOW' HlANS WERE HESITANT TO DEST-JlOY VITH EXPLOSIVES BY nLLING THEM WITH CONCRtTE HE STRESSED HAT URRAINE RAS NOTRIHG TO·DO WITH START II THESE ARRANCEMENl'S COVEREb ONLY START I HE ADDED 'DIAT 68 TONS OF NUCLEAR PDEL WOULD BE SUPPLIED IN RETURN F R THE MIRV WARHEADS mE MECOTIATIONS COULD BE BILATERAL OR tllILATERAL AND RUSSIA PREFERRED mAT THE U S SHARB RALF OF 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