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Global Security Engagement: A New Method for Cooperative Threat Reduction

The government's first Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs were created in 1991 to eliminate the former Soviet Union's nuclear, chemical, and other weapons and prevent their proliferation. Originally designed to deal with immediate post-Cold War challenges, the programs must be expanded to other regions and fundamentally redesigned as an active tool of foreign policy that can address contemporary threats from groups that are that are agile, networked, and adaptable. As requested by Congress, Global Security Engagement proposes how this goal can best be achieved.
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Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015: Proceedings of A Russian-U.S. Workshop

The NAS and the RAS held a joint workshop aimed at identifying U.S. and Russian views on the international nuclear security environment in 2015, what challenges may arise from that environment, and what options the U.S. and Russia have in partnering to address those challenges.
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Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges

The NAS and the RAS assessed the technical, economic, legal/regulatory, and non-proliferation criteria necessary for the implementation of an international civilian nuclear fuel cycle. The study addresses both institutional and technical questions concerning schemes for international fuel cycles.
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English-Chinese Chinese-English Nuclear Security Glossary

CISAC with and its Chinese counterpart, the Chinese Scientists Group for Arms Control at the Institute for Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing produced a glossary of nuclear security terms in English and Chinese.
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Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism

This report presents the papers and summarizes the discussions of a workshop between Indian and U.S. experts to examine the terrorist threat faced in both countries and elsewhere in the world, and explore opportunities for the U.S. and India to work together in the future.
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