Eric Hundman surveys the history of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and finds that while progress has been slower than expected, the program has "has focused attention worldwide on nuclear security and conversion programs."
A panel of experts has urged Russia and the United States to expand their cooperation on biological security issues.
A U.S. program to secure and catalog biological agents at former Soviet laboratories has moved forward quickly in recent years, with increased cooperation from five former Soviet republics speeding progress.
An overview of the successful cooperative threat reduction programs to reduce the threat of Russian 'loose nukes', including the successful Megatons-to-Megawatts program.
The author proposes expanding U.S. cooperative threat reduction programs to address the threat from the Soviet Union's system to defeat bubonic plagure.
The United States should use programs it has used to contain the former Soviet Union’s WMD arsenal in efforts to end the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program, according to a group of experts.
The authors argue for increased funding for cooperative threat reduction programs to reduce the threat from Soviet-era biological weapon stockpiles.
Russia faces grave environmental and terrorist threats unless donors accelerate a slow trickle of international aid for dismantling its rusting nuclear submarines, a senior official said.
The author calls for greater care and more intensive international cooperation to safeguard strategic nuclear command and control systems against incursions by terrorists bent on causing unauthorized and by definition catastrophic attacks.
An international partnership of the U.S. and other leading industrial nations to help Russia safeguard their chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons is at risk due to legal disputes, bureaucratic hang-ups, Russia's reluctance to allow access to sensitive sites, and public resistance in Russia to cooperation with the United States and the West.