Year
2003
Abstract
This paper provides a summary and update of the key points in Controlling Nuclear Warheads and Materials: A Report Card and Action Plan.1 The paper attempts to outline the key steps that must be taken to keep nuclear weapons and materials from being stolen and falling into the hands of terrorists and hostile states; outlines rough metrics for judging how much progress has been made in accomplishing those steps, in six broad categories of effort; provides an assessment of the progress of current programs in these areas, using these metrics; and makes recommendations for accelerated and expanded actions by the U.S. government and other governments to address these threats. The paper also describes the ongoing project to improve and update these assessments and recommendations, and the additional supporting information available in a major new web site of the same title.