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counterproliferation

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Those actions (e.g., detect and monitor, prepare to conduct counterproliferation operations, offensive operations, weapons of mass destruction, active defense, and passive defense) taken to defeat the threat and/or use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our military forces, friends, and allies. Also called CP. See also nonproliferation.
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Written for anyone interested in the development of American foreign policy, this book analyzes the failure of counterproliferation strategies and questions whether we are safer now than before 9/11.
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Lugar urged the expansion into Pakistan of the Nunn-Lugar counterproliferation regime conceived at the fall of the Soviet Union to keep Moscow's weapons out of the hands of rogue states or terrorists.
Obama must press Pakistan's Zardari on nukes: US Senator by AFP / AFP American Edition
Though Failed Diplomacy is primarily aimed at North Korea watchers, it is also useful for those concerned with counterproliferation in places where multilateral methods have been similarly unsuccessful.
Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb by Walsh, Sean P. / Joint Force Quarterly
 
 
 
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