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Proliferation: Threat and Response
Auteur | US. Dep. Of Defense |
6-03-0-00-99.pdf | |
Datum | 2001 |
Classificatie | 6.03.0.00/99 (PROLIFERATIE - ALGEMEEN) |
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PROLIFERATION: THREAT AND RESPONSE January 2001 Office of the Secretary of Defense OF ENT DE M T R FE D E PA NSE UN A IC T I E R D E ST M AT E S O F A Proliferation: Threat and Response January 2001 This document, along with other DoD materials related to nonproliferation and counterproliferation, may be found at http://www.defenselink.mil Message of the Secretary of Defense At the dawn of the 21st Century, the United States now faces what could be called a Superpower Paradox. Our unrivaled supremacy in the conventional military arena is prompting adversaries to seek unconventional, asymmetric means to strike what they perceive as our Achilles heel. At least 25 countries now possess — or are in the process of acquiring and developing — capabilities to inflict mass casualties and destruction: nuclear, biologi- cal and chemical (NBC) weapons or the means to deliver them. For example: ■ North Korea is building and selling long-range