1. Buying Security: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
- Author
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Newnham, Randall
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NATIONAL security , *MILITARY policy , *NUCLEAR weapons , *ORDNANCE - Abstract
This paper will argue that the Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR, also sometimes called the Nunn-Lugar program) represents an important new method for states to protect their security. The program has used carefully targeted spending rather than military means to eliminate much of the nuclear threat from the former Soviet Union. The CTR program has succeeded in removing all nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan, Belarus, and the Ukraine, and has helped to greatly reduce Russia's forces and safeguard its WMD installations. It has also quietly removed dangerous nuclear material from the former East Germany, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. The paper will argue that this program has been remarkably cheap and effective compared to military alternatives. It seems to offer a model of carefully targeted cooperative incentives which could help in engaging other WMD states. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008