In 2001 , the U.S. General Accounting Office criticised the progress made so far , and recommended merging NCI and the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention into a single programme to improve efficiency . By the end of the Clinton administration , over $ 30 million had been secured for the project , but this was heavily cut by the following Bush administration who reduced expenditure to $ 6.6 million . However , the 2002 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act , which merged IPP and NCI , resulted in a substantial increase in funding to $ 42 million as it brought funding from the Russian Transition Initiatives budget , which was further increased by $ 15 million after the September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Nuclear Cities Initiative