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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.

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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.

Money laundering --- Internet fraud --- Electronic funds transfers --- Banks and banking --- Corrupt practices --- Corrupt practices