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       Foreword						  vi
       Members of the Task Force			viii
       Executive Summary				   1

   I.  Introduction					  14
  II.  Preventing Nuclear Anarchy			  22
 III.  Strategic Arms Control				  31
  IV.  The ABM Treaty and Ballistic Missile Defense	  37
   V.  Conventional Forces in Europe			  48
  VI.  The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty		  57
 VII.  The Chemical Weapons Convention			  59
VIII.  The Biological Weapons Convention		  64
  IX.  Conclusion					  67

       Additional and Dissenting Views			  70

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE TASK FORCE wishes to thank the following people: Anthony Harpel, Isabelle Kaplan, Erin Klett, Jennifer Powell, and Joel Shin from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for their research and logistical assistance; Merle Cachia and Mary E. Richards of the Council, and Paul Saunders of the Nixon Center, for their administrative support; and Patricia Dorff and Sarah Thomas of the Council for their editing and production help.

We also want to express our appreciation to Dr. Alvin H. Bernstein and Ambassador Marshall Brement of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, for hosting a meeting for distinguished European experts to critique an earlier draft of the report; and Dr. Sergei Karaganov and the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow for arranging a session and separate meetings with Russian political figures and specialists to comment on the Task Force's deliberations. None of these foreign interlocutors necessarily endorse the report in any way.

Finally, the Task Force Chairman and Director wish to acknowledge the Carnegie Corporation of New York, whose grant helped underwrite this effort.

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