Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

4 Mitigate the Effects of WMD Use5 Detect/Monitor Development, Production, Deployment, Employment of WMD6 Communicate the Ability/Will to Employ Interdiction/Response Capabilities7 Determine Vulnerabilities in WMD Development, Production, Transfer, Deployment, and Employment8 Conduct Off-site Attack to Destroy, Disable, and Deny WMD Targets9 Establish and Maintain Relations with Allies, and Potential Adversaries to DiscourageDevelopment, Production and Use of WMD10 Seize, Destroy, Disable, and Deny Transport of WMD11 Communicate the Ability/Will to Employ Defensive Capabilities12 Determine Vulnerabilities in Decision-Making Processes Related to WMD13 Conduct Information Warfare to Destroy, Disable and Deny WMD14 Support Treaties, Export Controls, And Political/Diplomatic Efforts15 Provide Alternatives to the Pursuit of WMD16 Provide Intelligence Collection Capabilities in Support of USG NP Efforts17 Conduct On-Site Attack to Seize, Destroy, Disable, Deny WMD Targets18 Provide Personnel, Training, Materiel, Equipment, to Support Security Assistance19 Destroy, Disable, and Deny Actor’s Non-WMD Resources and CapabilitiesIt is of particular note that with this year's cycle, this Joint Warfighting CapabilitiesAssessment's prioritized requirements list was also used by some of the other relevantcommittees as a part of their requirements-generation process. The Commissioncommends the Joint Staff's Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment working group ondeterrence and counter-proliferation as a positive step in the development of an end-toendplanning process. The extensive effort to collect the Department of Defenserequirements, combine them into an overall priority list, and then integrate the results intospecific operational plans is exemplary. Indeed, this results in a de facto intra-Departmentof Defense coordination mechanism of potentially high value, although it is not yeteffectively replicated throughout the department's broad efforts to combat weapons ofmass destruction proliferation.• The United States Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency (USANCA) is aU.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command organization responsible formaintaining the United States doctrine for the employment of nuclearweapons and for personnel risk and casualty criteria to nuclear weaponseffects. While it is not directly a counter-proliferation organization, much ofits integrated research priorities are directly related to the deterrence,defense and consequence mitigation categories of combating weapons ofmass destruction proliferation. The Army Nuclear and Chemical Agencyhosts an annual review and validation of nuclear research priorities invitingnuclear community experts and users across the Department of Defenseand the Department of Energy to attend. The nuclear weapons effectsresearch is categorized into a number of topical chapters and then into51