Number: RL32745
Title: Pakistans Nuclear Proliferation Activities and the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission: U.S. Policy Constraints and Options
Authors: Richard P. Cronin, Alan Kronstadt, and Sharon A. Squassoni, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: This report: (1) recounts previous failed efforts to reconcile American nuclear nonproliferation and other policy objectives regarding Pakistan; (2) documents Pakistans role in supplying nuclear technology to rogue states and how these activities escaped detection by U.S. intelligence agencies; (3) considers issues regarding the objectives, and viability of the military-dominated government headed by President Pervez Musharraf; and, (4) outlines and evaluates several U.S. options for seeking to gain more credible cooperation from Pakistans regarding its nuclear activities while still maintaining its counterterrorist cooperation.
Pages: 48
Date: May 24, 2005