WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration
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Barletta, Michael
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2001
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Center for Nonproliferation Studies
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The George W. Bush Administration confronts a daunting array of challenges ensuing from the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which pose grave threats to the United States at
home and to its allies and friends abroad. Increasingly, national policies and international institutions
designed to cope with WMD threats are being outpaced by technical and political changes that undermine
the effectiveness of existing measures to reduce WMD risks. Moreover, domestic pressures in key
states notably China, France, India, Russia, and the United States make it increasingly difficult to
reach consensus and generate political will for effective collaboration against WMD proliferation. Fortunately,
however, the new administration can rely in part upon the military alliances, diplomatic arrangements,
and other political and economic instruments developed by the last ten U.S. presidents,
who have labored since 1945 to constrain the spread of dangerous technologies in order to defend the
United States and help construct a safer world...
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Occasional Paper No. 6, foreward written by Micheal Barletta, Coordinator, Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group.
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Monterey Institute of International Studies
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.