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There are currently 310 documents Atoms for War? U.S.-Indian Civilian Nuclear Cooperation and India's Nuclear Arsenal
Ashley J. Tellis Click on the icon above to read the full text of this Carnegie report.
Among the most serious criticisms leveled at the U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation initiative agreed to by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is that it would enable India to rapidly expand its nuclear arsenal. This criticism rests upon two crucial assumptions:
that New Delhi in fact seeks the largest nuclear weapons inventory its capacity and resources permit; and, (more)...
Ballistic Missile Defense: Historical Overview
Steven A. Hildreth, Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division For some time there has been a growing sense of urgency to develop and deploy effective missile defenses against a range of long and short range ballistic missile threats. Although many might believe this to be relative new to U.S. national security objectives, such interest has been ongoing since the end of World War II. Many current technologies being investigated date their start to the 1980s, and earlier. This effort has been challenging technically1 and politically controversial. Some $110 billion (more)...
Beyond the Dirty Bomb: Re-thinking Radiological Terror
James M. Acton, M. Brooke Rogers and Peter D. Zimmerman The murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006 by polonium-210 ingestion was likely the first provable act of radiological terror. Yet the radiation was administered by a route that has been largely overlooked. Previous threat assessments have focused on the dispersal of radioactive materials into the environment. Although frightening and disruptive, spreading radioactive material widely would be unlikely to kill large numbers by direct irradiation. Once ingested or inhaled, however, radioactive materials (more)...
Biological Safety Training as a Component of Personnel Reliability
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Biosecurity: A Comprehensive Action Plan
Andrew J. Grotto aand Jonathan B. Tucker
The federal government's plan for responding to the twin threats of natural pandemics and biological terrorism bears a striking resemblance to the plan that was to guide the federal response to Hurricane Katrina: both assume that state and local entities have the resources and capabilities to take over primary responsibility for managing the crisis. Unfortunately, the reality is that they do not.
The Center for American Progress brings together a distinguished group of experts from the homeland (more)...
Boost-Phase Intercept: A Better Alternative
Richard L. Garwin Garwin explains that mid-course defense is not feasible. Rather, the US should pursue boost phase defense. He talks about a system heavily dependent upon satellites and anti missile batteries placed close to the ICBM threat.
Border Security: The Relationship Between CBP and APHIS
I. Miley Gonzalez, Ph.D.Director/Secretary, New Mexico Department of Agriculture
Summary of Presentation at a Capitol Hill Briefing on Border Security: The Relationship Between CBP and APHIS.
Border Security: The San Diego Fence
Blas Nuņez-NetoAnalyst in Domestic SecurityDomestic Social Policy DivisionMichael John GarciaLegislative AttorneyAmerican Law Division This report outlines the issues involved with DHS's construction of the San Diego border fence and highlights some of the major legislative and administrative developments regarding its completion; it will be updated as warranted. Congress first authorized the construction of a 14-mile, triple-layered fence along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996. By 2004, only nine miles had been completed, and construction was halted because of environmental concerns. The (more)...
Building the Biodefense Policy Workforce
AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security PolicyAAAS Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Following 9/11 and the anthrax letters in 2001, the field of biodefense significantly expanded to address global health, public health preparedness and response, medical countermeasure development, and civilian biological research, some of which includes select agents. The increasing investment in biodefense and concern about a bioterrorism attack within the United States and abroad suggests that the landscape for biodefense policy issues and workforce needs continue to evolve. During the past year alone, concerns about oversight of high-containment laboratories; vetting of (more)...
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released an interim final rule that imposes comprehensive federal security regulations for high risk chemical facilities.
This rule establishes risk-based performance standards for the security of our Nation's chemical facilities. It requires covered chemical facilities to
prepare Security Vulnerability Assessments, which identify facility (more)...
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