25 Steps to Prevent Nuclear Terror: A Guide for Policymakers
January 31, 2007
There is no greater threat to global security than the diffusion of
nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons expertise and materials.
Without an integrated approach to securing the large inventories of WMD
materials and expertise around the world, the United States will have
failed to accomplish its primary national security goal to keep the
"world's most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the world's most
dangerous people." The Cooperative Nonproliferation programs of the US
Government have been remarkably successful in the past fifteen years,
but they have never been used to their full potential to help reduce the
WMD threat.
Brian Finlay and Elizabeth Turpen of the Cooperative
Nonproliferation Program articulate a series of pragmatic,
politically viable steps that must be taken to ensure the full and
effective implementation of these critical national security programs
and maximize the return on investment in these programs. It also offers
policymakers, program mangers, and their private sector counterparts an
innovative guide for reinvigorating Cooperative Nonproliferation
efforts, making them sustainable and leveraging their impact across the
full spectrum of foreign policy goals, from economic development to
international public health. This publication accompanies a more
extensive discussion of the history and obstacles to the Cooperative
Nonproliferation programs published by the Stimson Center in January
2007 and entitled, Cooperative
Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster.
This relates to…
January 29, 2007
Cooperative Nonproliferation: Getting Further, Faster
This book provides a critical and contemporary assessment of the programs intended to reduce the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons' proliferation risks stemming from collapse
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