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| Name: | Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
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| Position: | No Position Found to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?" | |||||||||
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no stated position
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| A. Description: |
"CNS at the Monterey Institute of International Studies is the largest nongovernmental organization in the United States devoted exclusively to research and training on nonproliferation issues... CNS is organized into five research programs: the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, the International Organization and Nonproliferation Program, the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program, and the WMD Terrorism Research Program. Each program supports the Center's mission by training graduate students, building a worldwide community of nonproliferation experts, publishing both on-line and print resources on all aspects of WMD, providing background material to the media, and creating seminars and on-line tutorials to be used by high school and college instructors and the general public."
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| B. Mission: | "The Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis."
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| C. Structure: | Research Organization
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| D. Members: | none listed
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| F. Sr. Executive: | Dr. William Potter | |||||||||
| G. Title: | Institute Professor and Director | |||||||||
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| I: # of offices: | 3 | |||||||||
| J: Staff: | "CNS has a full-time staff of more than 40 specialists and over 45 graduate student research assistants."
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| Publications: | "Three times a year, CNS publishes the peer-reviewed journal The Nonproliferation Review, whose international roster of authors discuss a wide range of issues related to the consequences and control of WMD. CNS also produces an Occasional Paper series, as well as other publications, and maintains comprehensive databases on WMD developments and nonproliferation regimes." Studies Cited by ProCon.org: |
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| Relevant Affiliations: | Monterey Institute of International Studies
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