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Baker, Glenn. Cuban Biotechnology: A First-Hand Report, Center for Defense Information, May 2003.

Blix, Hans.  U.N. Security Council Briefing, New York:  United Nations, Feb. 14, 2003.

Briefing Book on Building A New Generation of American Nuclear Weapons, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, May 2003.

Briefing Book on Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Feb. 26, 2003.

Central Intelligence Agency, Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects, May 2003.

Central Intelligence Agency, The Worldwide Threat in 2003: Evolving Dangers in a Complex World, Feb. 11, 2003.

Continuity of Government Commission, American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, The Congress: Preserving Our Institutions, June 2003.

Foster, John et. al.  FY 2003 Report to Congress of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety and Security of the Untied States Nuclear Stockpile, Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile, April 11, 2003.

General Accounting Office, Weapons of Mass Destruction: Additional Russian Cooperation Needed to Facilitate U.S. Efforts to Improve Security at Russian Sites, March 2003.

Office of the British Prime Minister, Iraq — Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation, January 2003.

Office of the British Prime Minister,  Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction:  The Assessment of the British Government, Sept. 24, 2002.

O’Sullivan, Meghan.  Shrewd Sanctions:  Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism, Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003, 424pp.

Shambroom, Paul.  Face to Face with the Bomb:  Nuclear Reality after the Cold War, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

White House, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 2003, 119pp.

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Radiological Weapons:  G-8 Plans Action on Securing Radioactive Materials

By Mike Nartker
Global Security Newswire

EVIAN, France — The Group of Eight today released an action plan designed to improve the security of radioactive sources that could be used by terrorists to create “dirty bombs” worldwide.

The G-8 leaders here expressed support for an International Atomic Energy Agency effort to improve the safety and security of radioactive sources (see GSN, March 14).  To help those efforts, the G-8 has agreed to consider helping the IAEA in the event of a radiological accident or act of terrorism, and possibly to aid IAEA preventive measures.

G-8 members have also begun aiding countries considered the most vulnerable to radioactive material theft to securely manage all radioactive sources on their territory, including searching for and securing uncontrolled sources, according to the action plan. 

The G-8 today also pledged to begin a long-term review of measures to prevent the theft of radioactive sources.  Two measures being considered, according to the action plan, include political commitments by countries to uphold the principles of safe and secure radioactive material management and the identification of the most effective measures identified by the IAEA.  These measures could include the creation of national registers for radioactive sources, national legislation to punish the theft of such sources and national physical protection measures, the action plan says.

The G-8 praised the success of the March International Conference on Security of Radioactive Sources in Vienna, and supported a French proposal to hold a similar conference in France in the first half of 2005.

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