At a meeting on issues of atomic energy, President Vladimir Putin said that this decision had been passed in the framework of administrative reform and improving the activity of the Government.
At the meeting, Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov outlined the three key areas of cooperation between the Ministry and the Federal agency for atomic energy.
They are: forming proposals on nuclear safety; developing, manufacturing, modernising, maintaining and salvaging nuclear weapons; and joint activity on supporting and developing the nuclear testing ground on Novaya Zemlya.