Publication

This report argues that the end of the Cold War touched off an unprecedented era of war demobilization, transferring a menu of technologies from government to private hands. This, the authors argue, presumes that before the state was the main repository of the technology as well as the guarantor of its security from other, illegitimate actors. They explain that while the most technologically advanced governments are challenged by the proliferation of advanced technologies, the response capacities of less developed countries are even more severely limited. This study urges these governments to make greater investments in counterproliferation activities and no longer treat development and security programs as conflicting priorities in national budgets.