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"In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: to what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weapons strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployed plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected."--Publisher's description

The Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) was established in 1980 as a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to bring together leading scholars in science, technology, and medicine with military, diplomatic, and policy experts initially to address critical problems of international security, particularly issues concerning nuclear weapons, and subsequently to address additional issues including biosecurity, cybersecurity, space security, and terrorism. CISAC engages influential counterparts through its formal dialogues in Russia, China, and India, and through projects and less formal interactions with key organizations in other countries. All of CISAC's work through the dialogues and the projects is based on technical security issues and is intended to lead to policy insights and options. The NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences' (RAS) CISAC dialogue has operated continuously for over 35 years for the promotion of understanding between our nations. The remarks in the meetings are not for personal attribution. NAS CISAC participants provide direct briefings on the dialogues to government officials and bring what they learn from CISAC's dialogues into a variety of forums, including the Academy, advisory committees, other dialogues, and collaborations with other experts working on international security issues in the United States and Russia. CISAC's dialogues also lay the foundations for or enhance other activities with public products, such as NAS studies, joint NAS-RAS studies, and other projects. ; Carnegie Corporation of New York ; Defense Threat Reduction Agency's nuclear verification office ; National Academy of Sciences Council ; This final progress report results from research supported by the Naval Postgraduate School's Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC) via Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-15-1-0040 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego). ; Assistance Grant/Agreement No. N00244-15-1-0040 awarded by the NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (NAVSUP FLC San Diego)

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- In Remembrance -- Summary -- 1 The History of Cooperative Threat Reduction (1991-2018) -- 2 The Changing Biothreat Landscape -- 3 Addressing Biothreats through Successful Engagement -- 4 Key Roles for the Department of Defense in Biological Threat Reduction -- 5 Strategic Vision and the Way Forward -- 6 Key Findings and Recommendations -- References -- Appendix A: Committee Biographies -- Appendix B: Congressionally-Appropriated Funding for the Biological Threat Reduction Program (2007-2020) -- Appendix C: U.S. and International Agencies and Organizations Engaged in Global Health Security.