Homework Response

As we develop methods to extend the security of the nation globally through maintaining partnerships, rebuilding and renewing old partnerships and developing new ones, these interactions also result in the social contempt for the U.S directly or it’s resulting relationships with our allies.

Our global strategy of stabilizing regions that support the security of our nation and our economic advancement and the destabilization of countries who are in opposition has created these amorphous and dangerous terrorist groups both internationally and domestically. As these groups manifest it is nearly impossible to detect, deter and define these groups until their first physical act of aggression.  We will never be able to cut out the source of these groups; however, it is possible to cut away at the source of the nuclear threat.

Nuclear material proliferation is one of the most significant threats in a more modern and better educated society of today.  Our approach and strategy must continue to be a unified global reduction of the materials that provide this threat.  “It is hard to imagine that there could be much of a future for such efforts if the nuclear materials associated with them could not be kept out of the hands of terrorists or other malign actors,” (Dr Christopher Ford, Sep 2018). In his statements Dr. Ford identifies that through initiatives the United States has converted reactors to use lower enriched uranium and repatriated a significant amount of enriched uranium.  This practice along with bilateral support in NATO with the passing of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540 significantly improves the limiting of available resources to non-state actors who desire acquisition of these materials in pursuit of terrorist acts.

As Graham Allison states “When, not if” (Dr Christopher Ford, Sep 2018) in regards to nuclear terrorist attacks.  In military training we are trained to understand at a basic level that if you get into a knife fight that you will get cut, and during conflict or war people will die.  We must also prepare strategies to support the U.S. and its partners in response to these potential threats “when” it happens. 

 

Respectfully,

Duane

Citations:

Dr. Christopher Ashley Ford, Nuclear Security Challenges and Opportunities (20 September 2018), Remarks to the Nuclear Security Contact Group Vienna Austria, U.S. State Department

Retrieved from: https://www.state.gov/remarks-and-releases-bureau-of-international-security-and-nonproliferation/nuclear-security-challenges-and-opportunities/