Research Paper Proposal Format-Due Week 3/Paper Due Week 7

Name: Patrick Speir

Title: Does Monitoring of Nuclear Tests Promotes National and Global Security?

Course Objective Link: Your topic must be much narrower than these objectives. They just need to fall under one of these large subject areas.

The topic of my paper is directly related to the CO below (Place an X):

_______CO-1:  Deconstruct the flow of intelligence to support strategic decision making at the White House, Congress, and the executive departments and agencies.

__x_____CO-2:  Assess the challenges and role facing strategic intelligence analysis and strategic counterintelligence.

_______CO-3: Critique the elements, methods, processes, and capabilities of strategic covert action.

CO-4: The role of congress is explored during your Mid-term Paper and should not be explored during this paper.

_______CO-5: Differentiate the fundamental capabilities and limitations of strategic intelligence collection.

Thesis Statement:

The intelligence processes and systems for monitoring of nuclear tests are insufficient and have little impact national and global security.

Outline:

1. Introduction

The national security is one of the fundamental functions which the United States government is entitled to carry out. The number of organizations and officials who require both domestic and foreign intelligence to ensure that they fulfill their responsibilities is substantial. Their duty is to make policies or/and implement them accordingly to ensure that the nation is secure at all costs from any threats and intrusions both internally or external[footnoteRef:1]. Intelligence is a very crucial aspect of ensuring national security. It can be generally referred to like the resulting product from the available information which gained through evaluation, integration, processing or even analysis of concerns about any potential hostile element (s) or force(s) which poses threat to the national security. Despite the tremendous effort by the U.S. security agencies to keep an eye of the maintenance of the nation’s security, nuclear forces continue to pose an ultimate deterrent to their capability of supporting national security. The intelligence processes and systems for monitoring of nuclear tests are insufficient and have little impact national and global security. [1: ]

2. Nuclear forces pose an ultimate deterrent to the capability of intelligence systems and policies towards supporting national security. Comment by Stephen Fowler: I don’t understand what you are saying. I can guess but they it is written doesn’t make sense.

a. There has been calls for increased budget towards intelligence systems and recent activities are putting a toll on these budgets Comment by Stephen Fowler: What activities?

b. Global systems and policies against nuclear threat have been failing and are weak against the powers by individual states and allies.

c. The increased threat of immediate deployment and propaganda on increased budget and expenditure on high-tech nuclear weapons is a threat that requires better investigation systems Comment by Stephen Fowler: I didn’t see much with respect to why the intelligence systems are not up to the task.

3. The threat of nuclear war is inevitable and keeps increasing each and everyday

a. There is the willingness as demonstrated by some governments to transfer sensitive weapon technologies or/and even advanced groups to some groups that are a threat to global security.

b. There is a radical evolution of the security environment in the current global setup.

c. Regional states now have ability to attain and have weapons of mass destruction

4. Systems, policies and laws that have been not in place to counteract nuclear threat are not sufficient to protected high risk countries from a nuclear threat.

a. The 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty ahs has been violated leading to independent states to work on their intelligence

b. NATO’s resolve to work together to ensure our collective security had diminished and organization is weakened following divided policies by member sates

c. There are more countries that are not recognized by Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as nuclear weapon states that are currently testing them.

5. Conclusion.

There is a broad range of uncertainties which characterize the security environment in the future. The portfolio of strategies and the capability of the U.S. government to ensure that the nation is secured from any external aggression and especially about nuclear tests are both conventionally offensive and defensive. All these are aimed to help in the achievement of the goals to deter o put regulatory measures on the nation’s accessibility and testing of the WMD in accordance with the NNT. Comment by Stephen Fowler: You did not address your thesis about capability of intelligence systems to monitor/identify threat

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Cimbala, Stephen. “The Trump Nuclear Posture Review: Three Issues, Nine Implications.” Strategic Studies Quarterly 12, no. 2 (July 1, 2018): 9–16. http://search.proquest.com/docview/2166948264/.

Kihl, Young W., and Hayes, Peter. Peace and Security in Northeast Asia : the Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

Kroenig, Matthew. “US Nuclear Weapons and Non-Proliferation: Is There a Link?” Journal of Peace Research 53, no. 2 (March 2016): 166–179.

Richelson, Jeffrey. The U.S. Intelligence Community 7th ed. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016.