12724. NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. This paper explores and analyzes nuclear proliferation in the post-Cold War era. The investigation is limited to an overview of the problem (versus a search for solutions), with a close focus on what analysts consider to be among the key issues: disarmament and the reversal of bilateral nuclear competition between the world's two biggest nuclear powers (the United States and Russia), deliberate proliferation by rogue states and undeclared nuclear powers, and proliferation stemming from "nuclear leakage" out of the former Soviet Union. 23p. 54f. 33b.