id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uc1.b5154993 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 2000 .txt text/plain 94863 5415 64 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 and Kazakhstan after those new nations inherited thousands of nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union in 1991 and the implementation of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici cooperative threat reduction programs in these states. 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/uc1.b5154993.pdf ./txt/uc1.b5154993.txt