Globalizing Cooperative Threat Reduction: A Survey of Options

Abstract

Increasingly, Congress and the Bush Administration are looking to utilize nonproliferation assistance programs, including cooperative threat reduction, to help reduce the risk of terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In the FY2004 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 108-176, Sec. 1308), Congress authorized the Bush Administration to spend $50 million of unobligated funds from the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in states outside the former Soviet Union. As of September 2006, the Administration had spent such funds only in Albania ($38.5 million) for the purpose of eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. The report of the 9/11 Commission called for continued support for threat reduction assistance to keep WMD away from terrorist groups. This report, which will be updated as needed, analyzes the range of possible applications of CTR funds, the kinds of assistance that might be supplied, and describes legal, financial, technical, and political constraints on possible assistance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 05, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456455

Entities

People

  • Sharon Squassoni

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Congress
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Fuels
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Reactors
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Treaties

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  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Strategic Security Studies