Defense analysts caution that while recent U.S. proposals to expand post-Cold War programs could provide experience and technology to improve the security of nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India, adapting the programs to circumstances in South Asia might be difficult.

Lawmakers are considering two bills to allow the U.S. president to reduce, cancel or sell part of Russia?s debt to fund joint nonproliferation programs in Russia.

Defense analyst Selig Harrison warns that the Bush Administration's current hard-line stance towards North Korea risks inciting a war or nuclear proliferation.

To prevent the threat of an accidental nuclear attack, the United States should cut its nuclear arsenal further than the reductions in the new U.S.-Russian agreement, said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg.

Michael Krepon of the Henry L. Stimson Center warns that without a concerted, high-level U.S. effort to ease tension between India and Pakistan, ?there?s a high probability of a war in South Asia? with the potential for nuclear conflict.

The United States should consider swapping a portion of Russian debt for nonproliferation programs, a senior State Department official said yesterday, praising last month?s Group of Eight agreement to provide funds for nonproliferation programs in the former Soviet Union.

A new study from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace paper argues that the United States should expand cooperative threat reduction programs to other countries, taking advantage of the post-Sept. 11 focus on terrorism and a decade of experience securing former Soviet weapons of mass destruction.