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pst.000047034969	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations.	The formulation of effective nonproliferation policy : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, March 21, 23, 28, 30, 2000 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.106-655	2000		.txt	text/plain	90490	5315	63	About a dozen states, including several hostile to western democracies-Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and Syria-now either possess or are actively pursuing offensive biological and chemical capabilities for use against their perceived enemies, whether internal or We are also worried about the security of Russian WMD materials, increased cooperation among rogue states, more effective efforts by proliferants to conceal illicit activities, and growing interest by terrorists in acquiring WMD capabilities. Hundreds of articles and speeches have cited the South Asian tests and the Korean and Iranian missile launches as proof that future threats are inherently unpredictable, intelligence estimates are consistently unreliable, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is fundamentally unstoppable, and, thus, the only truly effective response is reliance on American defense technology. � Lt. General Patrick Hughes, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, concludes bluntly in his annual testimony to Congress, "The proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, missiles, and other key technologies remains the greatest direct threat to US interests worldwide."	./cache/pst.000047034969.pdf	./txt/pst.000047034969.txt