Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense

From Foreign Assistance to Sustainable Partnerships

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9780309179515
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This Congressionally-mandated report identifies areas for further cooperation with Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program of the Department of Defense in the specific area of prevention of proliferation of biological weapons. The report reviews relevant U.S. government programs, and particularly the CTR program, and identifies approaches for overcoming obstacles to cooperation and for increasing the long-term impact of the program. It recommends strong support for continuation of the CTR program.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
• COMMITTEE ON PREVENTION OF PROLIFERATION OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Summary
• Introduction
• 1 Security Context for the Biological Threat Reduction Program
• 2 Achievements of the Biological Threat Reduction Program
• 3 U.S. Government-Wide Biological Threat Reduction Programs and Interagency Coordination
• 4 Overcoming Obstacles Confronting the Biological Threat Reduction Program
• 5 Future of the Biological Threat Reduction Program
• 6 Recommendations
• Appendix A National Research Council Committee on Prevention of Proliferation of Biological Weapons
• Appendix B Extracts from Recent National Research Council Reports
• Appendix C Relevant Reports by the National Academies
• Appendix D Relevant Recent Reports by the U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Appendix E Other Reports of Interest
• Appendix F Research Projects Supported under the Cooperative Biological Research Program (1999-present)
• Appendix G Agenda
• Appendix H Foreign Colleagues Who Participated in Discussions of BTRP in Garmisch, Germany (April 2007)