National Security Analysis
National Security and Nonproliferation
Policy Architects International is a private research and analysis, consulting and advisory services organization that provides analytical services to U.S. Government agencies and authorized contractors in defense and foreign affairs, with special emphasis on the areas of nuclear, missile and other arms control. Policy Architects offers expertise and invites proposals in the following areas:
Counterproliferation and Threat Reduction
- Threshold states and 'Small Nuclear Forces'
- Incipient nuclear weapon programs and capabilities
- Sensitive missile and space programs
- Regional threats, rivalries, and defensive capabilities
- Potentials in Russia and NIS for illegal diversion
- Evolving nuclear and CBW doctrines
- Terrorist threats
- U.S. and Allied planning, coordination and response
- Force projection implications
- Theater missile defense programs
- Technical intelligence implications
- Enforcement and incentive strategies
Nonproliferation Regimes
- International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards systems
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Nuclear export control laws, policies and coordination
- Missile Technology Control Regime
- Nuclear weapon free zones
- Regional arms control measures and institutions
- Security and confidence-building measures
- Strengthening nonproliferation norms
- U.N. resources for security and peacekeeping
- Negotiations on fissile material production cutoff
- Verifying ban on nuclear explosive testing
Regional Security
- Policital-military developments in key regions and countries:
- Security threats and perceptions
- Decision-making institutions and patterns
- Military balances
- Alignments
- Subnational conflicts
- Conventional arms transfers
- Indigenous defense production
- Industrial and military R & D infrastructure
- WMD capabilities
Strategic Arms Control
- Arms reduction treaties: INF, START I, and START II
- Follow-on strategic arms negotiations
- Unilateral arms control initiatives
- Safety, security and dismantlement
- Stockpile reductions and transparency measures
- Defense posture stability measures
- Elimination, conversion and reconstitution
- Strategic missiles and commercial space launch
- Second tier nuclear powers
- Verification capabilities
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