Speaking Truth to Nonproliferation
Abstract
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) proposes a project that would produce detailed histories--nowhere else available--describing how U.S. intelligence officers and policy makers worked together on several challenging proliferation cases, with a view to distilling practical lessons for improving future collaboration in this area. The project would include research to evaluate U.S. intelligence and policy collaboration in countering proliferation in India, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Taiwan, South Korea, and a set of nuclear-capable rocket cases. This research would be discussed and evaluated at workshops funded by supplemental grants, which would bring together outside experts and the retired intelligence and policy officials who were involved in these cases. The outside experts would review the open literature on each case and identify additional questions to research with the project’s policy and intelligence practitioners. They would then seek advice from other former officials, as necessary, to complete a new primary history of each case. After each unclassified workshop, a second session would be held to consider what additional historical analysis should be done. Final workshops then would be held to identify lessons from the case histories that might enhance future policy/intelligence collaboration efforts to stem nuclear proliferation. NPEC would share these results with key policy makers, military planners, academics and NGOs to stimulate further research and discussion. We would follow with outreach to academics, think tanks, and U.S. officials.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 10, 2016
- Source ID
- N002441510021
Entities
People
- Henry Sokolski
Organizations
- Nonproliferation Policy Education Center