Nuclear Terrorism: US Policies to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Terror

Abstract

The study below acknowledges that the US government has taken important steps to prevent nuclear proliferation and to detect and interdict the international transfer of potentially dangerous nuclear materials. Yet it also finds that US government money and authority remains overly stovepiped within agencies, and poor interagency coordination hampers overall policy effectiveness. At the other end of the policy process, foreign government partners often do not share US goals and expectations, while investments in sustainable and transparent civilian opportunities for WMD experts are inadequate, undermining long-term US goals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486354

Entities

People

  • Brian D. Finlay

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Foreign Policy
  • Globalization
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Terrorism
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies