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        <p class="style21">In my capacity as U.S. Assistant to  the Secretary of Defense for nuclear, chemical, and biological defense  programs, I am responsible to the armed forces of the United States  to mitigate the threat posed by the use of a weapon of mass destruction, be it  nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological. Therefore I would like to focus  today on which threats face us and what we can do as a nation and a global  community to counter them.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Last  year at this workshop I spoke about several specifics regarding the threat  associated with a clandestine nuclear attack. This type of attack is still  real, still serious, and still present; the dynamics for such an attack have  not changed, although some significant progress has been made in addressing  them. I will talk again today about this type of attack. But additionally I  will also speak on the evolving threat of chemical and biological agents.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Although  the underlying science behind nuclear, chemical, and biological threats is  completely different, I believe the key to combating all of them is the same.  That key is integrating our collective capabilities and renewing our focus on  how best to meet and respond to the threats as well as new emerging threats.  The post&ndash;September 11 environment finds us combating an adversary who hides  within our midst, who attacks without warning, and who has no regard for the  sanctity of human life. In the name of religious fanaticism or another similar  justification, this adversary seeks out any means to destroy us. Because of this,  and now more than ever, the global community must exert its considerable  capabilities, through private industrial, academic, and governmental means, to  develop the methods and techniques necessary to defeat this enemy.</p>
        <p align="center" class="style34 style36"><strong>ELEMENTS OF THE NUCLEAR-ATTACK  POTENTIAL&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">Let me first talk about the  nuclear threat and point out some of the noteworthy accomplishments we have  achieved since the end of World War II. First of all, it is my opinion that the  NATO nuclear umbrella agreement has prevented more countries from developing  nuclear weapons than all the treaties we have developed. Many, if not all, of  the original NATO countries had the technical and financial ability to design  and build a nuclear weapon. However, by participating in the NATO agreement,  the need and the financial burden to do so, both perceived and real, was  reduced.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>Lack of Nuclear Agreements&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">There are no similar  agreements in the Middle East and other  regions. Therefore, in the daily papers, we have seen clear illustrations of  the desire of several countries, including Iran,  Iraq, Libya, Pakistan,  India, and North Korea, to  develop nuclear weapons. In fact, since the end of the Cold War the number of  countries that possess the knowledge, materials, and technical capability to  produce nuclear weapons has nearly doubled.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>Increased Supply and Demand&nbsp;</strong></p>
        <p class="style21">There are two elements  necessary for the development of a nuclear capability: demand and supply. Let  me first focus on demand. The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency  recently commented that, &ldquo;The desire for nuclear weapons is on the upsurge.  Additional countries may decide to seek nuclear weapons as it becomes clear  that their neighbors and regional rivals are already doing so. The domino  theory of the twenty-first century may well be nuclear.&rdquo; (George Tenet, Feb.  11, 2004) &nbsp;In addition, rogue states and substate groups seem to be  motivated by both the destructive potential as well as the psychological impact  of these devices.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Based on what we have learned  in the recent past, it seems that the demand for nuclear weapons is not going  to decline in the coming years. Posturing by North Korea regarding their public  statements on their nuclear capabilities as well as their refusal to  participate in diplomatic discourse to ease the problems are a prime example of  the increasing demand. Add to that the developments in Iran, where that  nation&rsquo;s leadership has repeatedly taken a position contrary to what the rest  of the world would like to see regarding the development of an enrichment  capability, and you are confronted with a continuing upward spiral of nations  looking to develop a nuclear capability that could easily be converted from  peaceful to destructive use.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">From a supply perspective,  the knowledge, technology, and materials required to implement a successful  nuclear program are spreading at an accelerated rate to both state and  non-state actors. The most difficult obstacle now facing a terrorist is  acquiring fissile material to use in a weapon or an improvised nuclear device.  While states have traditionally sought to produce plutonium or highly enriched  uranium themselves, there remains the dangerous potential for procuring this  material on the black market as well as stealing it from poorly secured areas.  Because the Cold War ended, surplus nuclear assets, including people,  technology, facilities, and materials, exist.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>Unsecured Weapons and Weapon Materials&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">The transition of the former Soviet Union from a secret military infrastructure to an  open commercial enterprise raises issues today related to safety, security, and  the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction material.  Several countries are currently providing financial and technical assistance to  Russia  to help secure its nuclear weapons and its usable weapon material. But previous  methods for controlling proliferation, designed to limit trade where necessary  and prevent the diversion of civilian material, will not work, either in Russia or in Iran, because of the co-mingling of  defense and civilian infrastructures and materials. The global community must  instead find better ways to identify and prevent diversion, ensure  transparency, and assure the irreversibility of this dual-use process.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Similar issues have also  arisen concerning other nations that are part of the burgeoning nuclear  suppliers network. Over the last 20 years, several of these countries, both  developed and underdeveloped, have slowly weaned themselves from any need for  foreign support, goods, and services; they have emerged as a nascent suppliers  group able to provide competitive cradle-to-grave nuclear energy services  throughout the world for the next 10 to 20 years. These are the suppliers that  will provide nuclear goods and services to support third-world  industrialization and the global energy demand. As this emergent suppliers club  expands its membership, so too will the number of targets increase for  ambitious nuclear proliferators.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">In 1996, 15 countries had  developed complete and indigenous nuclear-fuel-cycle capabilities. Some of  these countries, including Japan,  China, South Korea, Argentina,  India, and Brazil, now  stand poised to become very competitive nuclear suppliers to the next growth  area. Some have already established an independent multilateral cooperative  network.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">In addition to this, it is  not necessary to have weapons-grade material to produce a radiological  dispersal device, which disperses radioactive material and thereby causes  destruction, contamination, and injury&mdash;a &ldquo;dirty bomb.&rdquo; Acquiring such material  through theft or illegal commerce is less difficult than obtaining material for  a nuclear weapon or an improvised nuclear device.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father  of Pakistan&rsquo;s  nuclear program, has already demonstrated a large and potentially enormous  appetite for nuclear materials, technologies, and expertise. Because of his  public role, he was also well positioned to succeed in his other, more covert  role: As a prominent black marketer of nuclear materials and knowledge to state  regimes and, perhaps more directly, to substate terrorist groups determined to  acquire a nuclear capability to further their horrific schemes.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">But in addition to Khan&rsquo;s  work selling instruments of terror and destruction, he also helped to create  menacing networks that persist despite the reduction of his role as an arms  dealer. Khan became quite wealthy selling Pakistan&rsquo;s nuclear technology, but  his significant and frightening success resulted from a simple economic  formula: Demand creates supply.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>Secondary Suppliers&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">It is going to take great  effort to reduce the demand as well as eliminate, or at least reduce, the  supply, as it will to address the additional threat of the construction of  radiological dispersal devices or &ldquo;dirty bombs.&rdquo; But there is yet another  concern, that of the issue of secondary supply, which has emerged as a growing  concern in recent years.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">As their domestic nuclear  capabilities have improved, nations that traditionally have been recipients of  nuclear-related technology and materials are themselves becoming suppliers of  those same technologies and materials. Pakistan  is a prime example of this phenomenon, although Iran  and North Korea  are also cause for concern. In fact, North Korea has resumed its  production of plutonium, and information provided by Abdul Quadeer Khan  confirms the country&rsquo;s efforts to develop highly enriched uranium. Coupled with  its withdrawal from the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and its nuclear weapons  capabilities, there is justified concern that North Korea could sell or otherwise  provide plutonium or other nuclear weapons&ndash;related material and technology to  other substate groups.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>ADDRESSING THE NUCLEAR THREAT&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">Containing this threat is  something that we, the global community, must do. Within the United States  we have begun to bring together various players that will have a near- and  long- term impact on the development of technologies. Specifically, the U.S.  government, through the Department of Homeland Security, is creating the  Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. This office&rsquo;s mandate will be to develop and  employ technologies and methods of nuclear detection that will greatly enhance  the overall security of the United    States and its allies.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">To facilitate this ability,  we are bringing together parts of the Department of Energy, the Department of  Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies to  build a research-and-development center that incorporates an extensive testing  capability. This office will allow us to focus our efforts on those threats  that are most likely to impact our nation. By bringing together the brain trust  of our various departments we will finally be able to use our resources to  combat problems related to detecting shielded special nuclear material and  threatening radioisotopes. This will act as a needed first step in meeting the  challenges we face in the future. From this beginning, we must look to forming  a more global alliance that will incorporate other nations&rsquo; capabilities and  resources in this fight to protect our nations.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>ELEMENTS OF THE BIOLOGICAL-ATTACK  POTENTIAL&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">The threat from biological weapons,  unlike nuclear-based weapons of mass destruction, is much more diverse and  constantly changing. Traditional biological warfare agents include bacteria,  viruses, and toxins, including some pathogens that before September 11 were  relatively unknown to the average person. Now anthrax, plague, smallpox,  botulism, tularemia, Ebola, various types of encephalitis, hemorrhagic fevers,  and other diseases are making headlines on a daily basis. Even natural changes  in bacteria and viruses are creating new or emerging infectious diseases that  may also be used intentionally. Over the past few years, SARS, the West Nile virus, antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, and  highly pathogenic avian influenza have emerged as significant threats to human  health.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Even more potentially  devastating is the capability to create new diseases through genetic  engineering techniques, including making changes to existing pathogens so that  they are resistant to medical treatments or can avoid detection or defeat other  protective measures. The potential now exists to create entirely new species of  pathogens.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>USING A CAPABILITIES-BASED APPROACH&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">Our strategy should emphasize  a capabilities-based approach rather than the previous approach of prioritizing  threat agents and targeting budgetary resources based on validated  intelligence. Capabilities-based planning focuses more on how adversaries may  challenge us than on whom those adversaries might be or where we might face  them. This strategy enables a more cost-effective employment of a broader range  of defensive measures. It also reduces the dependence on specific intelligence  data and recognizes the impossibility of predicting complex events with  precision. This strategy drives a top-down, competitive process that enables us  to balance risk across the range of complex threats, to balance risk between  current and future challenges and within fiscal constraints.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Implementing this approach  depends on the international biological, medical, and chemical communities.  Just as the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention  were built upon the inputs from academia, industry, government, and the private  sector, to correctly identify a constantly changing capability we will need  multiple and varied viewpoints. This includes the viewpoints of those with  knowledge of the previous work and those who are on the cutting edge of  biological and chemical  technology research. Again, no one nation holds a monopoly on biological and  chemical technology, thus we will have to work together to first quickly  identify threats and then implement balanced and risk-based mitigation plans.  Doing so will be difficult, but we must balance the good that biochemical and  biomedical technology can bring to society with the adverse consequence of  putting it in the hands of terrorists.&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="center" class="style34"><strong>FOLLOWING THE PATH TO A SAFER WORLD&nbsp;</strong> </p>
        <p class="style21">The threat of weapons of  mass destruction continues to loom over our nations. It is a cloud that we  cannot currently remove. It is also a cloud that, if handled without visionary  leadership, could easily create massive budgetary problems for all nations as  we scatter about trying to develop solutions in an isolated environment.  Therefore it is imperative that we recognize the broad reach of this threat  and, more importantly, the will and intent of the enemy: &nbsp;to destroy us  and our way of life at any cost.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Once we understand this  intent we cannot treat this problem as we did threats during the Cold War. New  visions and paths are required to meet this devastating capability. The threat  of nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological attack increases with each  day that we fail to act to prevent it. Now is the time for our governments to  move forward on a new path, a path that will allow us to collectively chart a  way and a means to defeat the threat of weapons of mass destruction, and, more  importantly, defeat this enemy that would even consider their use. By creating  new capabilities that will allow us to prevent their use, we remove a potent  weapon from the terrorists&rsquo; bag of tricks and, in doing so, provide the time to  effect more permanent change in our adversary.&nbsp; </p>
        <p class="style21">Our goals must be lofty and  far reaching. We are in a period of prosperity never before seen, yet at the  same time we are more vulnerable than ever before. The threats I have just  described, if realized, would create such panic and havoc in nations that a  recovery would be at best difficult. Together we can find the elusive path that  will lead our world into a safer, more secure, and peaceful time. We must  choose that path.&nbsp; </p>
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