Global Threat Reduction
Squassoni, Sharon / Woolf, Amy F
Non-proliferation assistance programs are a relatively new tool in combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Co-operative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs, funded by the Department of Defense (DOD), are the most visible of these programs. Begun in 1991, CTR initially aimed to help Russia meet its START obligations to reduce strategic nuclear weapons, 1. Within a decade, however, CTR took on the goal of reducing the threat ...