Threat awareness is the foundation of WMD security culture. Accordingly, CITS has worked with numerous international partners, primarily in Russia, to apprise the staffs at nuclear facilities of the security challenges confronting them and of the importance of nonproliferation. For instance, the Center has offered collaborative training programs with the Moscow Institute for Professional Training, an arm of the Russian Federal Agency for Atomic Energy, or Rosatom, since 1999.
The Center's WMD Security Policy Program conducts policy research, training, and outreach aimed at improving the security of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological materials that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction. The program's objective is to strengthen the international standards that pertain to these deadly materials and to persuade governments and international institutions to work together to control them.
