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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Defense, security and strategies
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Defense, security and strategy series.
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The evolution of cooperative threat reduction : issues for Congress / Mary Beth D. Nikitin and Amy F. Woolf -- Statement of Rebecca K.C. Hersman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Department of Defense. Hearing on "Proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and at the Department of Defense" -- Statement of Kenneth A. Myers III, Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Defense. Hearing on "Proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and at the Department of Defense" -- The global nuclear detection architecture : issues for Congress / Dana A. Shea -- Global security contingency fund : summary and overview / Nina M. Serafino. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The United States uses a number of policy tools to address the threat of attack using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. These include a set of financial and technical programs known, variously, as cooperative threat reduction (CTR) programs, nonproliferation assistance, or, global security engagement. Congress has supported these programs over the years, but has raised a number of questions about their implementation and their future direction. Over the years, the CTR effort shifted from an emergency response to impending chaos in the Soviet Union to a broader prog. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Confidence and security building measures (International relations) -- United States.
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Confidence and security building measures (International relations) |
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United States. |
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Arms control -- Government policy -- United States.
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Arms control -- Government policy. |
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Arms control. |
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Security, International.
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Security, International. |
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Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation.
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Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation. |
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Nuclear disarmament -- International cooperation.
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Nuclear disarmament -- International cooperation. |
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Nuclear disarmament. |
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Nuclear nonproliferation -- International cooperation.
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Nuclear nonproliferation -- International cooperation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Burke, Rachel D., editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooperative threat reduction New York : Nova Publishers, [2015] 9781634637237 (DLC) 2015300875 |
| ISBN |
9781634637510 ebook |
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1634637518 |
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9781634637237 handbook |
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