Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Metrics alone cannot ensure that the best options have been identified or are being implemented, but they can be helpful to program managers and overseers as they work to ensure that efforts are focused in productive directions. Impact and effectiveness in some projects is easily measured quantitatively, particularly where the objectives yield tangible products, such as constructing secure storage facilities, consolidating materials into a secure facility, or destroying a stock of a chemical agent.
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When three heads of the former Soviet republics signed the Minsk Agreement on December 8, 1991, followed by eight others on December 21, formally dissolving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and forming the Commonwealth of Independent States, approximately 4,000 nuclear weapons remained in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. These agreements and the subsequent Lisbon Protocol signed with the United States on May 23, 1992, helped to ensure strategic stability by defining roles and future responsibilities under existing arms control treaties and establishing commitments for consolidation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Russia.
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eliminated 492 SLBM launchers eliminated 32 nuclear submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles destroyed 155 bombers eliminated 906 nuclear air-to-surface missiles destroyed 194 nuclear test tunnels eliminated 503 nuclear weapons transport train shipments secured upgraded security at 24 nuclear weapons storage sites built and equipped 20 biological monitoring stations neutralized 1680.4 metric tons of Russian and Albanian chemical weapons agent While this table is succinct and readable, text supporting the scorecard captures a greater accomplishment of the CTR Program: "Perhaps most importantly, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus are nuclear weapons free as a result of cooperative efforts under the Nunn-Lugar Program. Those countries were the third, fourth, and eighth largest nuclear weapons powers in 10 See http://lugar.senate.gov/nunnlugar/scorecard.html; accessed January 11, 2012.
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(ASD/GSA) Policy Implementation Guidance Guidance Deputy Assistant to the & Defense Threat Reduction Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Agency Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Treaties and Threat Oversight (DASD(CWMD)
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The report from that study concluded that Expanding the nation's cooperative threat reduction programs beyond the former Soviet Union, as proposed by Congress, would enhance U.S. national security and global stability.
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.14 The DoD Metrics Report consists of a brief introduction followed by descriptions of the metrics for all but one of the CTR programs: CBEP Program, the Chemical Weapons Elimination Program, the Nuclear Weapons Safety and Security Program, and the WMD Proliferation Prevention Program. The Strategic Offensive Arms Elimination Program was not included because that program uses the "Nunn-Lugar Scorecard" metrics, and will continue to do so until that mission is completed.
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