Combating WMD: Challenges for the Next 10 Years

Authors

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Description

One need only glance at newspaper headlines each morning to appreciate that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat environment is dynamic. President George W. Bush has identified WMD in the hands of rogue states and terrorists as the greatest security threat to the United States. The pace of WMD events in recent years has been truly remarkable. Taking stock of what has occurred since the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction was issued nearly 2 years ago, it is clear that combating WMD is a difficult but far from hopeless task. Important progress has been made, though major challenges continue to confront the United States. The threats that dominate the near-term vision are those posed by hostile state and nonstate actors that seek or possess familiar forms of WMD. But the longer-term vision must remain focused on the ways in which technology potentially can transform the nature of the threat—perhaps in ways that will redefine the conception of weapons of mass destruction.

Document Type

Book

Topic(s)

Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Publication Date

2-2005

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, D.C.

Recommended Citation

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, "Combating WMD: Challenges for the Next 10 Years" (2005). Books and Book Chapters. 2.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/wmdcenter-books/2