U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress (open access)

U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the United States' relationship with India as it relates to nuclear arsenals and nuclear nonproliferation policies. The report includes background information on India's nuclear history and nuclear weapons-specific U.S. legislation.
Date: December 17, 2009
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress (open access)

U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress

This report discusses the United States' relationship with India as it relates to nuclear arsenals and nuclear nonproliferation policies. The report includes background information on India's nuclear history and nuclear weapons-specific U.S. legislation.
Date: November 5, 2009
Creator: Kerr, Paul K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
India-U.S. Relations (open access)

India-U.S. Relations

This report focuses on relations between the United States and India. India is South Asia's dominant actor with more than one billion citizens, one that many analysts view as a potential counterweight to China's growing clout.
Date: January 30, 2009
Creator: Kronstadt, K. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations (open access)

Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations

This report evaluates the Copenhagen climate talks, including the status of the negotiations on the key issues under the formal negotiating tracks and the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord, and draws implications for the implementation of actions in developing countries.
Date: November 5, 2009
Creator: Leggett, Jane A. & Lattanzio, Richard K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations (open access)

Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations

This report discusses the negotiations among United States and 200 other countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regarding the climate change. Parties agreed to complete the negotiations by the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) from December 7-18, 2009, in Copenhagen. However, some nations' leaders have indicated that the Copenhagen outcome is likely to be a political agreement providing a mandate for a later legally binding, comprehensive agreement.
Date: December 9, 2009
Creator: Leggett, Jane A. & Lattanzio, Richard K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations (open access)

Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations

As an aid to Congress in understanding nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, and arms control matters, this report describes which agency is responsible for research and development (R&D) of nuclear weapons (i.e., nuclear explosive devices, as distinct from the bombers and missiles that deliver them) in the nine nations with nuclear weapons and whether these agencies are civilian or military. It also traces the history of such agencies in the United States from 1942 to the present.
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan; Kan, Shirley A.; Kerr, Paul K.; Migdalovitz, Carol; Mix, Derek E.; Nikitin, Mary Beth et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The G-20 and International Economic Cooperation: Background and Implications for Congress (open access)

The G-20 and International Economic Cooperation: Background and Implications for Congress

This report discusses the background of the G-20 (an international forum for discussing and coordinating economic policies) and some of the issues that it has addressed. It includes historic background on the work of the G-20, information about how the group operates, overviews of G-20 summits, major issues that the group is likely to address and the likely effectiveness of the G-20 in the near future.
Date: December 9, 2009
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Partnerships to Control Tuberculosis, Report to Congress: 2008 (open access)

Building Partnerships to Control Tuberculosis, Report to Congress: 2008

Report summarizing the USAID's efforts in preventing and controlling tuberculosis worldwide.
Date: September 2009
Creator: United States. Agency International Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library