Proliferation: Threat and Response.

Abstract

During the height of the Cold War, the Russian physicist Andre Sakharov said, 'Reducing the risk of annihilating humanity in a nuclear war carries an absolute priority over all other considerations.' The end of the Cold War has reduced the threat of global nuclear war, but today a new threat is rising from the global spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Hostile groups and nations have tried - or have been able - to obtain these weapons, the technology, and homegrown ability to make them or ballistic missiles that can deliver the massive annihilation, poison, and death of these weapons hundreds of miles away. For rogue nations, these weapons are a ticket to power, stature, and confidence in regional war.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA314341

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Employment
  • Explosives
  • Fissile Materials
  • International Organizations
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Military Applications
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Treaties
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Physics
  • Political science

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies