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This paper reviews the CNS Visiting Fellows program targeting young and mid-career professionals from the former Soviet Union and East Asia, including governmental officials, technical experts, researchers, and faculty. This program designed to enhance participants’ knowledge of various aspects of nonproliferation and arms control field provides research, training, dialogue, and networking opportunities that the fellows carry back to their home institutions. The paper describes main components of the training, which includes lectures and selected graduate-level courses, seminars, and independent research, explaining benefits of each component. Reflecting upon successful outcomes of such program, the paper investigates benefits of joint training of professionals from different countries with different backgrounds, and examines dynamics of their interactions between each other and CNS experts. The paper concludes with the importance of such training for the international community, emphasizes the need to expand this program to other regions of the world, and gives recommendations to policy-makers. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]