Reference Guide

Protecting America: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threat Reduction

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I- Introduction

Chapter II - Issue Briefs

1. Strategic Nuclear Reductions
2. Reducing the Threat of Biological Weapons
3. The Threat of Chemical Weapons
4. Radiological Dispersal Devices: “Dirty Bombs”
5. Inventory of Russian Nuclear Weapons and Materials
6. Tactical Nuclear Weapons
7. Increasing Border Security in Russia and other States of the Former Soviet Union
8. The G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
9. Plutonium Disposition
10. Accelerating and Expanding the HEU Purchase Agreement
11. The Fate of Russian Nuclear Cities
12. Nuclear Submarine Dismantlement
13. Development of New Nuclear Weapons
14. Increasing U.S./NATO-Russia Theater Missile Defense Cooperation
15. Increasing Presidential Decision-Making Time in Nuclear Operations
16. North Korea
17. 17 - The Stockpile Stewardship Program
18. Liability Issues in WMD Threat-Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs in Russia
19. Proliferation Security Initiative
20. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Background and Achievements
21. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Proposals for Strengthening
22. U.S. Russian Ballistic Missile Early Warning Cooperation
23. Global Cleanout of Weapons-Usable Nuclear Materials from the World’s Most Vulnerable Sites
24. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
25. International Nuclear Security Standards
26. Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials Outside Russia
27. Brazil
28. Iran

Chapter III - Additional Resources

Chapter IV - NTRC Contacts

Chapter V - Appendices

• Glossary
• Voter Attitudes on Foreign Policy-post election poll results
• Treaties
  • STARTI
  • Treaty on The Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
  • Treaty of Moscow (U.S-Russia Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty)
  • Biological Weapons Convention
  • Chemical Weapons Convention

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