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National Security Office: Current Reports and Readings

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• Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Reports
• Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
• Congressional Commission Reports
• Counterproliferation
• DoD Task Force
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)
• Nuclear Posture and Strategy
• Nuclear Terrorism and Counterterrorism
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) II
Nuclear and Conventional Forces Issues Conference 2003

Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Reports

• Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase I:
  Report Defense Reform for a new Strategic Era (pdf)
• Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase II Report:
  U.S. Government and Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era (pdf)
• Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase III Reports:
  --Department of Defense Acquisition and Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System Reform (pdf)
  --The Future of the National Guard and Reserves (pdf)
• Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase 4 Reports
  The Department of Defense and the Nuclear Mission in the 21st Century (pdf)

Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency History Series, FY 2008
  Responding to War, Terrorism, and WMD Proliferation History of DTRA, 1998-2008 (pdf)
• Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program, May 2008
  Annual Report to Congress (pdf)

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

• Congressional Research Service: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty,
  January 28, 2009
  Background and Current Developments (pdf)

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Congressional Commission Reports

• Stimson Report: Task Force on Leveraging the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories for 21st Century Security, March 2009
  Leveraging Science for Security: A Strategy for the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories in the 21st Century (pdf)

Counterproliferation

• Congressional Research Service: Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials,
  November 6, 2008
  Science, Technologies, Observations (pdf)
• USAF Counterproliferation Center: The Counterproliferation Papers Series, September 2007
  Not In Our Own Backyard: Posse Comitatus and the Challenge of Government Reorganization (pdf)

DoD Task Force

• Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management, September 2008
  Phase I: The Air Force’s Nuclear Mission (pdf)
• Report of the Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management, December 2008
  Phase II: Review of the DoD Nuclear Mission (pdf)

Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)

• Congressional Research Service: Arms Control and Nonproliferation, April 10, 2009
  A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program,
  September 12, 2008
  Background and Current Developments (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: Nuclear Cooperation with Other Countries,
  August 12, 2008
  A Primer (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service, February 4, 2008
  Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: Proliferation Control Regimes, January 31, 2008
  Background and Status (pdf)
• Securing the Bomb: Index
  Securing the Bomb 2008, Commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (pdf)

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Nuclear Posture and Strategy

• Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, May 2009
  Executive Summary (pdf), Final Report (pdf), and Report Website
• Congressional Research Service, March 15, 2009
  Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: Nuclear Weapons in U.S. National Security Policy,
  December 30, 2008
  Past, Present, and Prospects (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: U.S. Nuclear Weapons, January 23, 2008
  Changes in Policy and Force Structure (pdf)
• DOE and DoD Report, September 2008
  National Security and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century (pdf)
• DoD, June 2008
  National Defense Strategy (pdf)
• Government Accountability Office: Defense Management, March 26, 2009
  Key Challenges Should be Addressed When Considering Changes to Missile Defense Agency's Roles and Missions (pdf)
• Government Accountability Office: Defense Acquisitions, March 30, 2009
  Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs (pdf)
• Interim Report, December 15, 2008
  The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States (pdf)
• Orienting the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, Center for American Progress
  Orienting the 2009 Nuclear Posture review: A roadmap, Structuring the 2009 NPR (pdf)
• US Nuclear Weapons Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2009
  US Nuclear Weapons Policy, Independent Task Force Report, No. 62 (pdf)

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Nuclear Terrorism and Counterterrorism

• Congressional Research Service: The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture,
  September 23, 2008
  Issues for Congress (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Missiles,
  February 20, 2008
  Status and Trends (pdf)
• Government Accountability Office: Global War on Terrorism, March 30, 2009
  Reported Obligations for the Department of Defense (pdf)
• National Counterterrorism Center, April 30, 2008
  2007 Report on Terrorism (pdf)
• Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, April 2008
  Country Reports on Terrorism 2007 (pdf)
• Preventing Nuclear Terrorism, November 18, 2008
  Matthew Bunn and Andrew Newman outline specific steps that President Obama should take to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism.
  Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: An Agenda for the Next President (pdf)

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) II

• Congressional Research Service, January 28, 2009
  Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons (pdf)
• Congressional Research Service: Nuclear Arms Control, December 30, 2008
  The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (pdf)

Nuclear and Conventional Forces Issues Conference 2003

DVD Videos are available from the 2003 Conference on Nuclear and Conventional Forces Issues. The conference was sponsored by The National Security Planning and Analysis Office, Deputy Director of National Security. Contact the NSO Office at 667-6120 for a copy of the taped conference.

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