The bipartisan program to secure weapons of mass destruction is starved for funds - but Mr. Bush is proposing a $41 million cut in "cooperative threat reduction" with Russia.

The Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center provides intelligence support related to national and non-national threats, as well as supporting threat reduction and arms control.

(C) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP): Due to Russia's unwillingness to cooperate on biological threat reduction and enter into a bilateral cooperation agreement, DOD is reducing its engagement in Russia in the BTRP.

Belfer was founded in 1973 by biochemist Paul M. Doty as the 'Program for Science and International Affairs' within Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to provide analysis on arms control and nuclear threat reduction.

Beyond eliminating positions, the plan would restructure the Department of Defense itself, creating one new agency to oversee defense security and another to oversee treaty compliance and threat reduction.

A decade later, cooperative threat reduction is widely accepted.

DTRA's main functions are threat reduction, threat control, combat support, and technology development.

In addition to building global awareness, NTI engages in model programs to inspire private and governmental efforts toward threat reduction.

Her father, now retired, worked at the Pentagon, where he was the deputy director for cooperative threat reduction in the office of the Secretary of Defense.

The purpose of the Community instruments is to develop complete programmes of threat reduction that will offer to third countries a full range of possible cooperation on export control, border monitoring, maritime surveillance, redirection of scientists, bioscience and nuclear safety.