2007 Issue 1 - New York City Bar Association

I N T E R N A T I O N A L S E C U R I T Y A F F A I R S
velop a comprehensive plan to dramatically accelerate the timetable for
securing all nuclear weapons material around the world ….” 145
(2) G-8 Initiatives
In June 2002, the G-8 member states agreed to participate in a “Global
Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass
Destruction.” Pursuant to this partnership, the United States agreed to
spend $10 billion toward dismantlement efforts over ten years, and the
other G-8 nations agreed to collectively spend an additional $10 billion.
The Global Partnership is intended to enhance programs in Russia and
other former Soviet states, including the following:
• Reducing strategic missiles, bombers, silos and submarines;
• Ending weapons-grade plutonium production;
• Reducing excess weapons-grade plutonium;
• Upgrading storage and transport security for nuclear warheads;
• Upgrading storage security for fissile material;
• Reducing nuclear weapons infrastructure;
• Destroying chemical weapons;
• Eliminating chemical weapons production capability;
• Securing biological pathogens;
• Providing peaceful employment for former weapons scientists;
• Enhancing export controls and border security; and
• Improving safety of civil nuclear reactors. 146
At the 2004 G-8 Summit, members of the global partnership recommitted
to raising $20 billion by 2012 and welcomed the expansion of the
Global Partnership to include other donor governments. 147 The most
recent progress review at the 2005 G-8 Summit noted “visible progress”
with projects to address the priority areas of destruction of chemical weapons,
dismantling submarines, disposition of fissile materials and employment
of former weapons scientists. The review warned, however, that
“more needs to be done to increase the momentum so that the current
145. Id.
146. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, Fact Sheet: G-8 Summit – Preventing the
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (June 27, 2002), available at http://
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020627-7.html. See also James C. Kraska,
Averting Nuclear Terrorism: Building a Global Regime of Cooperative Threat Reduction, 20
Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 703, 744-56 (2005).
147. G8 Action Plan on Nonproliferation (June, 2004).
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