Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

• Sen. Jack Reed Holds a Hearing On the Fiscal Year 2009 Department of Defense's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, Proliferation Security Initiative, and Nuclear Nonproliferation Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration

SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGING THREATS AND CAPABILITIES HOLDS A HEARING ON THE FISCAL YEAR 2009 DEPARTMENT O...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 26, 2009

• Statement On the 15th Anniversary of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

Under the CTR Program, thousands of nuclear warheads have been deactivated, and thousands of delivery systems-including missiles, strategic bombers, and strategic ballistic nuclear submarines-have been eliminated. Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine are free of nuclear weapons and strategic delivery systems.

• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
• August 21, 2009

• Meetings:

...Closed Meeting of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee. AGENCY: Department o... biological defense, the future of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, and other matters relate...

• FR, November 05, 2010
• Notices
• Defense Department

• Parsons Corp. To Help Disarm the World

PASADENA - Parsons Corp. has secured a deal potentially worth $950 million to help disarm the world. The Pasadena-based engineering firm announced Thursday that it has been selected by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency as one of four integrating contractors for its Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• June 03, 2011

• Joint Statement: Meeting of President Obama and Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev

WASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At their meeting on April 11 in Washington, Presidents Nazarbayev and Obama discussed strengthening the strategic partnership between the United States and Kazakhstan and pledged to intensify bilateral cooperation to promote nuclear safety and non-proliferation, regional stability in Central Asia, economic prosperity, and universal values. Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation: The Presidents underlined the 15-year track record of close cooperation between Kazakhstan and the United States and success in reducing nuclear threats in Kazakhstan and around the world. They share the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. The U.S. appreciates the leadership of President Nazarbayev and the contribution of Kazakhstan to nuclear disarmament an...

... to contribute $50 million to a new program to educate Afghans at Kazakh universities. The Pre...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 12, 2010

• Bush Requests Less for Threat Reduction Program

Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) establishing the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program in the early 1990s, recently suggested that Congress should augment this shift by granting the executive branch greater flexibility to allocate money quickly to address short-term needs, such as the planned dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear facilities (see page 42). In a Jan. 30 speech at a conference organized by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Lugar suggested that Congress should grant the executive branch greater authority to provide nonproliferation aid to countries that are normally banned from receiving most U.S. assistance because of legal restrictions, such as sanctions.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 2, March 2008

• Threat Reduction Program Extends Reach to Ukrainian Biological Facilities

United States cooperation with Ukraine under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program was expanded Aug 29 with an agreement to use US CTR funds to improve security for pathogens stored at biological research and health facilities in the former Soviet republic. Under the agreement, CTR funds will for the first time flow directly to projects aimed at securing pathogen strains and sensitive biological knowledge within Ukraine.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 8, October 2005

• Our Country Needs Uc in Charge On 'the Hill'

Jeff Bingaman's message to Los Alamos National Laboratory was right on: The New Mexico senator, who visited the lab last week, restated his long-held vision of the place as the vanguard of scientific research -- into something besides more nuclear weapons. He praised the assembled scientists and engineers for their work with the international Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to ratchet down the menace of nuclear warfare and noted that the lab is working on hydrogen fuel cells and safer forms of nuclear-energy generation. But Bingaman for years has touted -- and encouraged -- creative thinking in civilian science, medical technology and the like.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• March 10, 2005

• White House Nonproliferation Office Created

The act also removes several provisions, enacted in 1993, permitting the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program to disburse funds for safeguarding and destroying weapons of mass destruction to former Soviet bloc countries only if the White House deems them "committed" to disarmament and upholding human rights and in compliance with international arms control agreements. In fashioning a final compromise, a House-Senate conference committee struck a provision for sanctioning entities involved in transferring nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technology, which could produce material for nuclear weapons.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 7, September 2007

• Nuclear material containment and US aid to former Soviet States.

... replaced by a different sort of nuclear threat--the potential for terrorist use of weapons of mas...has undertaken efforts such as the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to assist the FSU states ...

• Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 2, February 2010