Evaluating the accomplishments of the cooperative threat reduction program

dc.contributor.advisorYost, David S.
dc.contributor.authorGrams, Stacy A.
dc.contributor.corporateNaval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
dc.date2000-12
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-09T19:27:34Z
dc.date.available2012-08-09T19:27:34Z
dc.date.issued2000-12
dc.description.abstractThis thesis offers an analytical survey of evaluations of the effectiveness of the U.S-sponsored Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program. The CTR remains the principal source of U.S.-Russian interactions regarding WMD proliferation. Russia's internal problems, including political, economic, military and social instability, have created the risk that rogue states or terrorists may attempt to exploit the uncertainties in Russia to buy or steal nuclear weapons and/or materials and/or to acquire the expertise to develop a nuclear capability. This thesis explores four competing perspectives in the United States on the accomplishments of the CTR's nuclear agenda. The key points of discord among the competing schools of thought include the significance of limitations on the ability of the United States to effectively monitor and accurately assess the contributions of the program, and the expansion of the program to include projects that do not directly concern weapons dismantlement. This thesis concludes that the CTR's contributions to countermg WMD proliferation could be more effectively pursued if the United States enhanced the quality of the CTR and worked cooperatively with Russia to address the full spectrum of common interests. The thesis also finds that if Russia fails to develop an enduring safeguard culture much of the CTR assistance may prove to have been of no avail.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/evaluatingccompl109459176
dc.format.extentxiv, 84 p.;28 cm.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/9176
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.subject.lcshNUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.;RUSSIA.;THREAT EVALUATION.en_US
dc.titleEvaluating the accomplishments of the cooperative threat reduction programen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineNational Security Affairsen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameM.A. in National Security Affairsen_US
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