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WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration

Michael Barletta, ed.

May 2001

This collection of concise papers offers pragmatic guidance for the Bush administration on key nonproliferation issues regarding U.S. foreign relations, nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism, and organizing the U.S. government. A product of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group, it outlines measures to help defend the United States and construct a safer world.

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Contents

Foreword

by Michael Barletta

Critical Issues in U.S. Foreign Relations

• U.S. Allies and Friends: Maintaining Productive Ties in Nonproliferation
  by Nobuyasu Abe
• Time for Clarification in Transatlantic Relations
  by Thérèse Delpech
• North Korean Ballistic Missile Programs: Soviet and Russian Legacies?
  by Timothy McCarthy
• U.S.-Russian Relations: Practical Measures to Restore Nuclear Nonproliferation Cooperation
  by William Potter and Serguei Batsanov
• China’s Proliferation Policies and the United States
  by Harry Harding
• China and Nonproliferation: The Changing Context
  by Brad Roberts

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Terrorism

• NBC Terrorism: Assessing Risks and Crafting Responses
  by John Hamre
• Bioweapons and the National Interest
  by Judith Miller

Organizing the U.S. Government for Nonproliferation

• Bureaucratic Balkanization: The Need for a Functioning Interagency Process
  by Rose Gottemoeller
• The Deutch Commission and Beyond
  by Neil Joeck
• Strategic Planning for U.S. Nonproliferation Initiatives in Russia
  by Leonard Spector

Clear and Present Dangers

• Critical Choices, Fateful Consequences
  by Michael Barletta