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Saddam’s Security and Intelligence Network and The Iraqi Security Apparatus

A report and a diagram outlining the Iraqi security apparatus.

“Suitcase Nukes:” A Reassessment

Russian official admits government is missing an unknown number of portable nuclear devices, suitcase nukes.

Statement by H.E. Mr. Felipe Perez Roque, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba

Statement made to the United Nations General Assembly, September14, 2002, New York

2001 WMD Terrorism Chronology

From the perspective of CBRN terrorism, 2001 was certainly an unprecedented year.

“Dirty Bomb” Threat Awakens Dormant Disarmament Conference

Materials for dirty bombs can be found throughout the world, with most countries lacking controls & programs to prevent theft.

CNS article

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.

CNS Releases Secret Soviet Smallpox Report

Report on growing concerns that terrorists could gain access to laboratory stocks of the smallpox virus and use them as a deadly weapon.

Challenges in US-Russian Cooperation

The United States and Russia have to adjust old patterns of thinking to new political realities in order to further cooperation on nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation.

CNS article

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.

CNS article

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.