"Participants in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism are committed to the following Statement of Principles to develop partnership capacity to combat nuclear terrorism on a determined and systematic basis."
Defeating the threat of terrorists seeking to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction demands unprecedented cooperation at the expert level among partner nations, at all levels of government, and with the private sector. Partnership capacity building to combat WMD Terrorism refers to a results-oriented collaboration between two of more organizations from distinct nations with the goal of improving on a continuous basis their individual national as well as collective capabilities. Partnership capacity building aims to enable the efficient and effective transfer of best practices and capabilities - skills, expertise, procedures, laws, regulations, systems, equipment, and technology - to strengthen our global layered defense-in-depth against terrorist attacks involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.
The Global Initiative aims to strengthen international capacity across a broad range of combating nuclear terrorism areas, including:
For more information regarding the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, please contact us at GlobalInitiative@state.gov.
