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Strategic Goal 4: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Public Benefit, Selected Performance Trends, and Strategic Context

FY 2003 Performance and Accountability Report

Bureau of Resource Management

December 2003

I. Public Benefit

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) including nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons and their delivery systems can threaten our territory and citizens, our armed forces, our national interests, and our allies and friends overseas. The Department helps combat this threat by working with other countries to fight WMD and missile proliferation, to defend against WMD attack, and to deny them to terrorist groups and rogue states. Our efforts improve the safety and security of the United States and its friends and allies by lowering the risk of conflict; minimizing the destruction caused by an attack or conflict; denying access to such indiscriminate weapons and the expertise necessary to develop them; and preventing potentially devastating WMD-related accidents.

The Department is committed to reducing the WMD and missile threat through agreements to reduce current nuclear weapons stockpiles; cooperative efforts to develop missile defenses as appropriate; strengthening nonproliferation treaties and commitments and their implementation; and active measures to improve and enforce export controls. The Department is helping shape U.S. and international strategies to eliminate threats remaining from the Cold War?s WMD legacy, enhance controls on biological agents and toxins, especially in the area of national controls; and, most recently, redirect Iraq?s former WMD scientists. To ensure our WMD strategies are both robust and effective, the Department seeks to integrate verification measures into arms control negotiations and nonproliferation agreements and commitments. The Department also works to ensure that compliance is rigorous and enforced. WMD and missile proliferation, especially in troubled regions, exacerbates regional instability and its associated negative political, economic and social consequences, including the danger that terrorists might acquire WMD and delivery systems. The Department is on the leading edge in responding to these and other WMD challenges that might arise.

Iraqi missiles are transported to a safer place for further testing in Baghdad, Iraq. Following the war in Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein from power, the search continues for weapons of mass destruction. ? AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

II. Selected Performance Trends

Number of Countries Signing the International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Protocol (Cumulative)

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Countries	6	35	44	52	60	66	78

 

Missiles and Rockets Destroyed as a Result of U.S. Funding of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Fund (Cumulative)

	1998	2000	2002
SCUD	107	107	154
SS-23	-	6	30
FROG	-	-	50

III. Strategic Context

The Weapons of Mass Destruction strategic goal is supported by three performance goals. Shown below are the major initiatives/programs, bureaus and partners that contribute to accomplishment of the strategic goal.

STRATEGIC GOAL: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
(Components that Contribute to Goal Accomplishment)

Performance Goal (Short Title)	Initiative/Program	Lead Bureau(s)	External Partners
Bilateral Measures	Curb Access	Nonproliferation, Verification and Compliance	DoC, DoD, DoE, DHHS, EPA, FBI, IC, NRC, NSC, USDA, CRDF, Australia Group, EU, G-8, IAEA, ICOC, MTCR, NATO, NPT, NSG, UNSC, Zangger Committee, ISTC, STCU
	Cooperation With Allies and Friends on Missile Defense	Arms Control	DoD, IC, NSC, NATO
	Cooperation with Russia on New Strategic Framework	Arms Control, Verification and Compliance	DoD, IC, NSC, NATO
Multilateral Agreements and Nuclear Safety	Strengthen Global Norms	Nonproliferation, Verification and Compliance	Same as "Curb Access"
	Chemical Weapons Convention	Arms Control, Verification and Compliance	DoD, DoC, DoJ, DoE, IC, NSC, OPCW
	Biological Weapons Convention	Arms Control, Verification and Compliance	DoD, DoE, DoC, DHHS, IC, NSC, WHO, FAO
	Promote Safe Nuclear Cooperation	Nonproliferation, Verification and Compliance	DoE, EPA, NRC, NSC, OVP, Treasury, USAID
Verification and Compliance	Arms Control and Nonproliferation Verification	Verification and Compliance	DoD, DOE, IC, DoC, JCS, DHS, FBI, NSC, OVP, DoJ, USDA, OPCW, Australia Group, EU, G-8, IAEA, ICOC, MTCR, NATO, NPT, NSG, UNSC, Zangger Committee
	President?s Annual Noncompliance Report	Verification and Compliance	Same as above
	Compliance Diplomacy	Arms Control, International Organizations, Verification and Compliance, Nonproliferation	Same as above
	All Source Intelligence Collection; Technology R&D	Verification and Compliance	IC, DoD, DOE, DHS, OSTP, TSWG, DTRA, National Labs, NSC, OVP
	Rapid and Accurate Communication for Arms Control	Arms Control, Verification and Compliance	DoD, DoE, DoC, NSC, IC