| Praise "The Carnegie report Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, is by far the most comprehensive, the most creative, the most useful analysis and prescription I have ever seen. If you leave here and do not take a copy with you, if you take a copy with you and do not read it – you are making a big mistake. It really is superb.....It is a comprehensive blueprint and I can not say how much more I think it contributes to the dialogue. I recommend it to you."
—Robert Gallucci, Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service This draft strategy report offers a blueprint for U.S. leadership in rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The proposed strategy synthesizes some innovative approaches of the George W. Bush administration, the benefits of the traditional treaty-based regime, and many new elements. It highlights both the necessity for strict enforcement of nonproliferation agreements and for global cooperation to forge those agreements. The draft report is in two parts: The first details the core principles and policies of this new nuclear security strategy. The second section is an in-depth technical and political elaboration of the various elements of the strategy, including restructuring of the nuclear fuel cycle, a global threat assessment, and pathways to resolve regional proliferation crises. Why is this a draft? This work builds on and incorporates the ideas of a great many experts in the field, but it is still a work in progress. Therefore, it is being issued as a draft expressly in order to elicit additional detailed critiques from the United States and abroad. The authors will coordinate a five month process of discussions, conferences, and publications to improve and expand the draft strategy and to develop an expert consensus on the necessary next steps. The authors will assimilate the comments they receive through the fall of 2004, and then release a final version in December 2004 to help inform the next administration as it designs its policies. Click on the link above for full text or the links to the right for specific sections of this report. About the Authors
George Perkovich is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Joseph Cirincione is a senior associate and director of the Non-Proliferation Project. Rose Gottemoeller is a senior associate conducting research jointly for the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Global Policy Program. Jon B. Wolfsthal is associate and deputy director for the Non-Proliferation Project. Jessica T. Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Request a print copy. |
