Combating Proliferation
Ellis, Jason D. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) / Kiefer, Geoffrey D. (Research Support Specialist, National Defense University)
The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems -- and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments -- illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Examining a broad range of recent case studies -- among them Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, North Korea's defiance of U.N. watchdogs, and Russia's transfer of...