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Globalizing Cooperative Threat Reduction: A Survey of Options
Increasingly, Congress and the Bush Administration are looking to utilize nonproliferation assistance programs, including cooperative threat reduction (CTR), to help reduce the risk of terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This report analyzes the range of possible applications of CTR funds, the kinds of assistance that might be supplied, and describes legal, financial, technical, and political constraints on possible assistance
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Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments
Since 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of Iran’s
nuclear program have revealed significant undeclared activities with potential
applications for nuclear weapons, including uranium enrichment facilities and plutonium
separation efforts. Also since 2003, Iran has been negotiating with Germany, France,
and the UK (EU-3) for a wide range of assistance in exchange for a halt to such
activities. Yet, most evidence indicates that Iran has never completely suspended its
enrichment activities, raising the question of whether Iran is buying time to build nuclear
weapons
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U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress
As part of the 1950s-era Atoms for Peace program, the United States actively
promoted nuclear energy cooperation with India from the mid-1950s, building
nuclear reactors (Tarapur), providing heavy water for the CIRUS reactor, and
allowing Indian scientists to study at U.S. nuclear laboratories. When other nations
joined the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968, however, India refused
to join the treaty on the basis that it was discriminatory. In 1974, India exploded a
“peaceful” nuclear device, demonstrating that nuclear technology transferred for
peaceful purposes could be used to produce nuclear weapons. As a result, the United
States has refused nuclear cooperation with India for twenty-five years and has tried
to convince other states to do the same
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Globalizing Cooperative Threat Reduction: A Survey of Options
This report analyzes the range of possible applications of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) funds, the kinds of assistance that might be supplied, and describes legal, financial, technical, and political constraints on possible assistance
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