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handle is hein.crs/crsainm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21840 October 5, 2004 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Expanding Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs: Concepts and Definitions Amy F. Woolf Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary President Bush, Members of Congress, and analysts outside government have suggested that the United States provide threat reduction and nonproliferation assistance to nations outside the former Soviet Union. Some propose expanding assistance to contain proliferation; others support programs to stop terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Some support assisting only those nations with WMD programs; others support assistance for any nation with WMD materials or knowledge. Some support assistance with the storage or elimination of weapons; others believe the United States should lock down all WMD materials. Some believe the United States can fund expanded programs from the existing budget for nonproliferation and threat reduction assistance; others support large increases in the existing budget. The report of the 9/11 Commission called for continued support for threat reduction assistance. H.R. 10, the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act, calls for a review of U.S. policy in this area. This report will be updated as needed. Background In November 1991, Congress passed the Nunn-Lugar amendment authorizing the use of $400 million in DOD funds to provide threat reduction assistance to the former Soviet Union. The United States now spends nearly $1 billion per year on threat reduction and nonproliferation programs administered by the State Department, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.! Together these programs seek not only to contain and eliminate nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials in the former Soviet 1 The amendment was attached to the implementing legislation for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, P.L. 102-228. For detailed descriptions of these programs, see CRS Report RL31957, Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union, by Amy F. Woolf. Congressional Research Service **o The Library of Congress

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