and an international legal regime with universal jurisdiction to enable the cap-
ture, interdiction, and prosecution of such smugglers by any state in the world
where they do not disclose their activities.
a willing partnership combining their national capabilities to use military, eco-
nomic, and diplomatic tools to interdict threatening shipments of WMD and
missile-related technology.
NATO countries. Russia and China should be encouraged to participate.
securing the weapons and highly dangerous materials still scattered in Russia
and other countries of the Soviet Union.The government's main instrument
in this area, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (usually referred to as
"Nunn-Lugar," after the senators who sponsored the legislation in 1991), is
now in need of expansion, improvement, and resources.The U.S. government
has recently redoubled its international commitments to support this program,
and we recommend that the United States do all it can, if Russia and other
countries will do their part. The government should weigh the value of this
investment against the catastrophic cost America would face should such
weapons find their way to the terrorists who are so anxious to acquire them.
acquire or make weapons of mass destruction for at least ten years.
There is no doubt the United States would be a prime target. Pre-
venting the proliferation of these weapons warrants a maximum
effort--by strengthening counterproliferation efforts, expanding the
Proliferation Security Initiative, and supporting the Cooperative
Threat Reduction program.
The general public sees attacks on terrorist finance as a way to "starve the ter-
rorists of money." So, initially, did the U.S. government.After 9/11, the United
States took aggressive actions to designate terrorist financiers and freeze their
money, in the United States and through resolutions of the United Nations.
These actions appeared to have little effect and, when confronted by legal chal-
lenges, the United States and the United Nations were often forced to
unfreeze assets.