WMD Insights

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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This monthly publication seeks to provide timely and noteworthy unclassified information on international attitudes towards weapons of mass destruction and efforts to curb their proliferation. Our goal is to assist our readers in planning for today’s issues and those that may be just over the horizon. Your opinions about this product are important to us. Please click Feedback to take a short electronic survey. Thank you

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Michael Moodie
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The WMD Insights project is sponsored by the Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). ASCO identifies, encourages, and executes high-impact projects to promote new thinking, address technology gaps and improve the operational capabilities of DTRA, DOD and other government agencies in response to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and related threats. A variety of ASCO studies, conference reports, and papers can be found at http://www.dtra.mil/
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CURRENT ARTICLES - Europe

On July 13, 2008 a high-level summit meeting was held in Paris attended by representatives – almost all either presidents or prime ministers – from 43 states, mainly EU member states and their southern Mediterranean partners. The purpose of the summit was to launch French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s idea for a new Mediterranean Union . . . view article

PREVIOUS ARTICLES - Europe

October 2008 Issue

Syria: Coming in From the Cold?

June 2008 Issue

U.S. BMD Plans Gain NATO’s Endorsement but Not Russia’s

April 2008 Issue

NATO Debates BMD Ahead of April Bucharest Summit

New French Nuclear Deals in the Middle East Generate Proliferation Concerns

March 2008 Issue

Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: An Old Problem Resurfaces

Russian BMD Anxieties Impact CFE Treaty

December 2007/January 2008 Issue

South Africa, Germany Announce Significant Developments in Prosecution of Suspected Khan Network Participants

November 2007

Niger Ends France’s “De Facto” Uranium Mining Monopoly, Grants Rights to China and India

October 2007

Experts Offer Extraterritorial Enforcement of Domestic Laws, Tighter Export Controls, Regional Cooperation to Improve Implementation of Biological Weapons Convention

September 2007

Franco-Libyan Nuclear Protocol Triggers Controversy

Update: German and U.K. Investigations Target Nuclear Exports to Iran

July/August 2007 Issue

The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Drives Forward

May 2007 Issue

European Union-Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: What's Next?

April 2007 Issue

Special Report: The European Ballistic Missile Defense Dispute

Part 1 - U.S. The View from Eastern Europe

Part 2 - U.S. The View from Western Europe

November 2006

U.S. – Turkey Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Stirs Debate in Turkey, Sets Benchmarks for Anticipated U.S. – India Nuclear Accord

July/August 2006

Iran Exploited Turkish Trading Firm to Procure Dual-Use Goods From Western European, U.S. Companies

Controversy Over Belarusian Air Defense Systems and Seizure of Dual-Use Goods in Austria Turn Spotlight on Iranian Missile Program

June 2006

Germany, Belgium, and UK Act on Iranian WMD and Missile Equipment Trafficking

April 2006

Turkey Copes with Iran, Using Mix of Strategies

Kurds Accuse Turkish Military of Using Chemical Weapons