Projects and Initiatives

The project works for restraint in the global production and trade of weapons by reporting on and analyzing U.S. government policies on arms exports and military assistance. It publishes the Arms Sales Monitoring Bulletin and has produced a handbook on the U.S. arms export policy.

The program has works to develop technical and political confidence-building measures to encourage all signatories to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) to abide by its spirit and to explore ways to prevent further proliferation of biotechnology for military applications.

Through research, advocacy, and public education, the project works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight. It aims to reduce the scope of government secrecy, to accelerate the process of declassification of Cold War documents and to promote reform of official secrecy practices. It publishes the Secrecy & Government Bulletin

Leader: Steven Aftergood

Combining the resources of the Project on Government Secrecy, and the Space Policy Project, this initiative has emerged as a leading public interest voice on intelligence reform, promoting public discussion and review of the deliberations of the National Commission on Intelligence Roles and Missions, as well as other ongoing intelligence reform efforts.

This program carries out research to develop the basis for new policy initiatives and organizes international workshops on these proposals jointly with foreign colleages. A major focus of effort is the development of the technical basis for the verified elimination of nuclear warheads, a moritorium on plutonium production, seeking economic alternatives for nuclear industrial complexes in Russia and de-altering of nuclear weapons.