The Comparative Strategic Cultures Curriculum project is an ASCO effort that explored approaches for leveraging strategic culture analyses to understanding WMD behavior. The report includes a collection of commissioned essays and case studies that examine the field of strategic culture and assess its applicability as a methodological approach to understanding decisions to acquire, proliferate, or use WMD, or abide by or violate international norms regarding WMD. More information about this project, and the essays and case studies, can be found at http://www.dtra.mil/
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CURRENT ARTICLES - Global
The West is currently engaged with Iran in a
diplomatic process that has only one recognizable
role: waiting until the US Presidential elections in November . . .view article
Six-Party Talks Move Towards North Korea’s Denuclearization
On June 27, 2008, the North Korean government ostentatiously blew up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear facility before the world’s media. . . .view article
Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism: Steady, but Slow Progress
In early July, the Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial states reaffirmed their high-level support for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) at their summit in Japan . . .view article
PSI Celebrates Fifth Anniversary with Mixed Record
On May 28-29, representatives from over 80 countries attended a conference in Washington to mark the fifth anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), launched by President George W. Bush in a May 31, 2003 speech in Krakow, Poland.. . .view article
UN Security Council Resolution 1540
PART I: Resolution 1810: Progress since 1540
On April 25, 2008, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1810, reaffirming its commitment to Resolution 1540 . . .view article
UN Security Council Resolution 1540
PART II: The Caribbean States: A Case Study
In February 2008, a one-day workshop on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 was convened in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic to address development priorities in the Caribbean as they pertain to key governance issues related to the resolution’s implementation. . . .view article
Canada’s Nuclear Paradox: CANDU Exports and Nonproliferation
Canada’s involvement in the Manhattan Project in the 1940s and its subsequent renunciation of the bomb foreshadowed early on that Canada’s nuclear identity would include inconsistencies . . .view article
