OP#06: WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration

June 5, 2001
Michael Barletta, ed.

Occasional Paper #6

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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WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration

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 Théregrave;se 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