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Strategic futures : evolving missions for traditional strategic delivery vehicles
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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This report addresses the post-Cold War use of traditional U.S. strategic nuclear forces (nuclear-armed long-range bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles) from three perspectives: top-down (strategies to tasks), bottom-up (technological opportunities--today and tomorrow), and policy (how policy can affect R & D, acquisition, and counterproliferation strategy alternatives). The problem then is to converge on technological initiatives from a strategic and policy perspective, including directions for future work. The authors examine the potential contribution of advanced technology for U.S. long-range strategic nuclear forces that may have counterproliferation missions as well as traditional ones.


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The nuclear asymptote : on containing nuclear proliferation
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Year: 1993 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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The abrupt end of the Cold War has created a security environment where many nations are now reconsidering acquiring independent nuclear weapons capability. Ahead is a planetary condition where virtually any industrialized nation will have the scientific infrastructure necessary to produce nuclear weapons and associated delivery vehicles indigenously, and at an economically affordable cost. Many nations may choose to maintain "virtual nuclear arsenals" that by plan can be reliably assembled inside a nation's notional strategic warning time for the appearance of dire political-military threats. This report confronts the challenge of containing these tendencies in the direction of a more favorable end state. The authors set forward four illustrative alternative end states: (1) "High Entropy" Deterrence--a highly proliferated world with few "rules of the nuclear road"; (2) An Ever-Slowly-Expanding Nuclear Club--an inexorable slow growth in the number of nuclear-armed states; (3) a Two-Tiered Static "Have-a-Lot/Have-None" System--a handful of "haves" maintain substantial "at-the-ready" nuclear arsenals and commit to maintaining the security of the "have-nots"; and (4) the Virtual Abolition of Nuclear Arsenals--a handful of states maintain a few hundreds of nuclear weapons with a highly intrusive inspection and collective enforcement regime. The 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference looms large as a key passage which will reveal the direction that the world's leading nations will take on the nuclear proliferation problem.

Strategic information warfare
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ISBN: 0833023527 9786612451263 128245126X 0833048465 9780833048462 9780833023520 Year: 1996 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

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Future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing, rapid evolution of cyberspace--the global information infrastructure--and in particular by the growing dependence of the U.S. military and other national institutions and infrastructures on potentially vulnerable elements of the U.S. national information infrastructure. To examine these effects, the authors conducted a series of exercises employing a methodology known as the Day After ... in which participants are presented with an information warfare crisis scenario and asked to advise the president on


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Bioterrorism preparedness training and assessment exercises for local public health agencies
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ISBN: 083305998X 0833038982 9780833059987 Year: 2005 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

Strategic information warfare rising
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ISBN: 0585350469 9780585350462 9780833048615 0833048619 9780833026224 0833026224 Year: 1998 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rand

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Cyberpayments and money laundering : problems and promise

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Exploring money laundering vulnerabilities through emerging cyberspace technologies : a Caribbean-based exercise

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How should nations and financial institutions begin to address the thorny problems posed by the vulnerability of cyberpayments, Internet banking, and Internet gambling to abuse by money launderers and other perpetrators of financial crime? Which questions need to be asked so that law enforcement agencies from different nations can begin to cooperate without stifling the positive aspects of the frontierless world of Internet finance? This report outlines the first steps in an emerging international dialogue on the promise and potential problems of cyberspace as an economic environment. It summarizes research performed by RAND for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This research was done in concert with the ongoing efforts of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force and the Commonwealth Secretariat as part of an international undertaking to examine financial crime concerns, particularly as they relate to the Caribbean.

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