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Summary
This paper reports the results of a study of the potential to apply the principles and practice of threat reduction cooperation to countries beyond the territory of the former Soviet Union. The study focused on the application of concepts and tools used in the former Soviet Union to the region of South Asia. The research was designed to explore what might be done cooperatively to enhance the security of the nuclear assets of India and Pakistan, lest they fall into the hands of terrorists or leaders of rogue states who would use them to threaten other states or peoples.
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About the Authors
Rose Gottemoeller is senior associate in the Non-Proliferation Project and the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment. She previously served as deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy.
Rebecca Longsworth, formerly with Science Applications International Corporation, is president of Keen Management Solutions.
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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program
Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ambassador Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
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