The Strengthening the Global Partnership project is a CSIS-led consortium of 23 research institutes in 18 European, Asian, and North American countries working to build political and financial support for G8 efforts to reduce the dangers from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, beginning in the former Soviet Union. Although international cooperation has significantly reduced these dangers since the end of the Cold War, the task of eliminating them is far from complete. The risk that materials or weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will fall into terrorist hands remains alarmingly high.
