Non-Proliferation - overview

Intelligence ought to incorporate a three-fold strategy when exploring non-proliferation: delivery systems, technological advancements, and current non-proliferation strategies.

First, delivery systems are important to understand because of their potential for nuclear delivery. This is among the first steps toward incorporating nuclear weapons into a national defense strategy. Current countries of interest are: Egypt, Iran, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Secondly, testing nuclear capabilities give countries technological advances. Such tests endanger the world and the non-proliferation movement. These countries are known to have nuclear weapons, though not signatory members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. They include North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel.

Lastly, non-proliferation strategies apply to the countries with current nuclear capabilities. Such intelligence explores how they are avoiding nuclear conflict and how they are helping countries avoid a nuclear defense system. These are France, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Resources

Sutcliffe, Kathleen (2006), The Growing Nuclear Club, retrieved January 21, 2009 from www.cfr.org/publication/12050/
www.cfr.org/publication/12050/

President Bush Administration (2005), Bush Administration Actions To Implement WMD Commission Recommendations, Retrieved January 6, 2009 from www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/WMD-Commission-Matrix-6-29-05.pdf; since move; viewable at www.scribd.com/doc/342148/02184WMDCommissionMatrix62905