CNS Occasional Papers

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OP#14: Nuclear Challenges and Policy Options for the Next US Administration

Occasional Paper #14: Papers by participants of the Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group meeting on August 20-21, 2008.

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OP#13: Trafficking Networks for Chemical Weapons Precursors: Lessons from the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s

Occasional Paper #13: New information on the illicit sale of chemical-weapons materials to Iran and Iraq during the 1980s sheds light on how international trafficking networks operate and suggests some practical steps for countering them.

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OP#12: New Challenges in Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security

Occasional Paper #12: Continuing a collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton.

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OP#11: Commercial Radioactive Sources: Surveying the Security Risks

Occasional Paper #11: Focuses on the security of commercial radioactive sources, the sources that represent a significant category of radioactive materials that are widely used throughout the world for beneficial applications in medicine and industry, and—until recently—have not been considered high security risks.

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OP#10: Future Security in Space: Commercial, Military, and Arms Control Trade-Offs

Occasional Paper #10: Identifying areas of common ground in the field of future space activity. A collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton.

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OP#09: The 1971 Smallpox Epidemic in Aralsk, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet Biological Warfare Program

Occasional Paper #9: The first authoritative English translation of an official Soviet report describing a previously unknown outbreak of smallpox in 1971 in the city of Aralsk, Kazakhstan.

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OP#08: After 9/11: Preventing Mass-Destruction Terrorism and Weapons Proliferation

Occasional Paper #8: A collection of papers examining the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, and analyzing U.S. and international responses to 9/11. They also propose measures to avert terrorism and to reduce mass-destruction threats to U.S. and international security.

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OP#07: Missile Proliferation and Defences: Problems and Prospects

Occasional Paper #7: This series of papers on missile proliferation and possible responses focuses on international and unilateral control mechanisms, regional perspectives, and implications for space.

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OP#06: WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration

Occasional Paper #6: Offering pragmatic guidance for the Bush administration on key nonproliferation issues regarding U.S. foreign relations, nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism, and organizing the U.S. government. It outlines measures to help defend the United States and construct a safer world.

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OP#05: International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses

Occasional Paper #5: The focus of this series reflects the concern of both centers that the spread of ballistic missiles constitutes one of the most serious and complex nonproliferation challenges today.