Carnegie
Corporation
of New York
Summer 2004
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Towards Nuclear Nonproliferation: An Evolving Strategy
Editor’s Note: Since the 1983 inception
of its work in the international security field, Carnegie Corporation
of New York has sought to identify and address some of the most pressing
challenges to the achievement of a peaceful and secure world. One aspect
of these efforts has been a focus on nuclear nonproliferation, which has
been addressed through an evolving but interconnected set of strategies
aimed at responding to the different problems and dangers presented by
changing times. This issue of the Carnegie Results explores how, over
more than two decades, the Corporation has honed and refocused its grantmaking
in this area—first under its Avoiding Nuclear War program in the
1980s, moving through the Cooperative Security program in the first half
of the 1990s, to the Preventing Deadly Conflict program in the second
half of the 1990s, and now, under the International Peace and Security
program—while retaining a consistent focus on applying its resources
to the reduction of grave threats to world peace.
Introduction
Carnegie Corporation of New York’s work in the area of peace and
security germinated in the early 1980s, a time when the Cold War was still
a major factor in international relations and the potential for nuclear
confrontation existed between the United States and the Soviet Union,
the world’s two superpowers. With the breakup of the Soviet Union
and a weaker, but still nuclear-armed Russia emerging, the Corporation
provid-ed support for the work leading up to the landmark Soviet Nuclear
Threat Reduction Act of 1991—renamed the Cooperative Threat Reduction
Program in 1993 but commonly known as “Nunn-Lugar” after the
bipartisan team of Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Republican
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana who sponsored and vigorously lobbied
for the legislation—which helped to safeguard nuclear weap-ons in
that part of the world during this dangerous time. Nunn-Lugar was a major
landmark in the Corporation’s body of work, but there are other
Corporation-supported studies and programs that have greatly added to
the depth and strength of activities geared toward promoting nuclear nonproliferation.
“Many of the projects don’t have the headline-producing effect
of Nunn-Lugar, but there is a cumulative body of grantmaking that advanced
the cause,” notes Stephen Del Rosso, senior program officer in the
Corporation’s International Peace and Security program.