Recommending the appointment of a single senior official both in the United States and in Russia “to reduce the continuing impediments to the implementation of joint nonproliferation...
On December 11, the Bush administration released a three-prong strategy for tackling threats posed by biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
On December 30, the UN Security Council voted 13-0 to expand the list of items that a UN committee can prevent Iraq from importing.
In a provocative decision, North Korea announced December 12 that it was restarting nuclear facilities that had been frozen since 1994, and it ordered international monitors to leave the country.