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CNS has produced many resources for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) at http://www.NTI.org.

  • Issue Briefs
    Review briefing papers on key issues written by experts from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies with links to a range of expert views on each topic.

  • Public Databases
    The nonproliferation databases compiled by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies are the most comprehensive open source data resources in the world on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and missile proliferation developments.

    Experts and scholars at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies sift through and verify facts from over 400 publications and information sources in several languages to create these uniquely accurate and extensive databases. The databases contain current and archived information from various sources including trade journals, government and defense publications, periodicals and electronic news sources, academic journals, U.S. congressional testimony, conference proceedings, books, United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency documents, correspondence from international advisors, unpublished papers, and Internet sources.

    The databases include:

    • WMD Country Profiles
      Find summary information on the nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and missile programs of selected countries. The section also includes selected links to additional resources, including official documents, related publications, selected reports and websites.
    • NIS Nuclear and Missile
      The NIS Nuclear and Missile database is an electronic reference handbook organized by country and topic. It provides extensive information on nuclear facilities, nuclear weapons, nuclear material protection as well as accounting, international nonproliferation participation, and nuclear and missile exports.
    • NIS Nuclear Trafficking
      This database highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States.
    • China Profiles
      This is the world's most complete open-source electronic database on Chinese arms control and nonproliferation developments, featuring analyses of Chinese nonproliferation policies, and an extensive collection of primary documents in Chinese and English.
    • Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes (CNS version also available)
      The Inventory is designed to identify the full range of actual and potential international organizations and other nonproliferation regimes, and their existing institutional ties, inter-relationships, and overlapping areas of responsibility. It provides descriptions of each organization, treaty and agreement as well as contact information and summaries of recent activities. Appendices contain charts showing the membership and status of key treaties and agreements.
    • ChemBio Weapons and WMD Terrorism
      The Washington, D.C. office of CNS distributes an e-mail containing links to and key excerpts from articles and other resources about chemical and biological weapons and terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. This database contains the abstracts from these e-mails with links to the original items. To subscribe to the e-mail listserv service, please e-mail chembio-terror@miis.edu with the subject heading "subscribe" and your e-mail address in the message body.
    • Nuclear & Missile Developments (Archived as of January 2002)
      This database tracks proliferation developments such as missile tests, nuclear exports, major policy statements or key negotiations. Although other regions are covered, more than 32,000 records in the database focus on events in South Asia, Northeast Asia and the Middle East. Each record contains an abstract of the essential, proliferation-significant information from a single source or several sources. Most abstracts are from sources published or available between 1985 and 2000.

      Read more about these databases along with the CNS subscription-only WMD Terrorism database and the Eye on Nonproliferation CD.

  • Tutorials
    Explore these interactive tutorials for complete overviews of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and issues surrounding the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical warfare terrorism. View expert analysis of the issues, interactive timelines, maps, and numerous links to relevant resources.

    • Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) Tutorial
      This tutorial provides an in-depth introduction to regional agreements banning the use, transfer, and development of nuclear weapons. In this tutorial, you will learn various aspects of NWFZ including the definition and characteristics of a NWFZ, the relationship between NWFZs and the NPT, the process for establishing a NWFZ, the history and current status of existing NWFZs, the prospects and challenges for establishing future NWFZs, the benefits of NWFZs, and their role in nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
    • NPT Tutorial
      This tutorial examining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has been designed to educate and provide introductory material about the treaty through interactive text and enriched multimedia.
    • Radiological Terrorism Tutorial
      This tutorial considers the possibility of radiological terrorism by analyzing the most common types of radiological sources, characteristics and motivations of terrorists, and steps being taken to prevent and prepare for a possible attack using a radiation dispersal device.
    • Chemical Warfare (CW) Terrorism Tutorial
      This tutorial introduces definitions of terrorism and CW, a brief history of CW, motivations of terrrorists for using CW, and options for prevention and response.
    • Biological Warfare (BW) Terrorism Tutorial
      This tutorial addresses several aspects of BW terrorism including biological agents of concern, characteristics and motivation of terrorists, approaches to prevention, and possible policy responses.

  • Educational Resources - WMD411
    WMD411 offers authoritative information on the threats from weapons of mass destruction and explores a range of policy options to reduce those threats. WMD411 provides students a thorough overview of the issues and links to a wide variety of resource materials.