Universal compliance: a strategy for nuclear security

A team of leading nonproliferation experts offers a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. They offer a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and fissile materials through a twenty-step, priority action agenda.This is the final version of a report released in June 2004 for worldwide review. The authors consulted with experts and officials in the United States and twenty countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the former Soviet states, and Russia.The final report captures the varying national interests driving nonproliferation policies - critical knowledge if the United States' strategy is to win international support. Local commitments already have been made, prepublication, to translate the strategy into Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, and to distribute it in India.The five authors from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have more than 100 years of combined experience in international security. They have held senior positions in the U.S. Congress, the White House, and other U.S. government agencies. The strategy of universal compliance -- Why a new strategy? -- Core concepts and key actions -- Elements of an enforceable regime -- Strengthening enforcement -- Blocking supply -- Abating demand -- Applying the strategy to regional crises -- Summary of policy recommendations -- Toward universal compliance: a 2007 report card.