Deterring Death and Destruction: Chapter 4: Catastrophic Terrorism and the Proliferation of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological We

Following the recently released report of the Task Force on the United Nations, Thomas Pickering and Robert Einhorn discussed the UN’s performance in preventing catastrophic terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  The key findings and recommendations included:

• Adopting in the General Assembly a definition of terrorism and passing a comprehensive convention condemning all forms of terrorism
• Promoting the “naming of names” that is, the United States should push the Security Council to have the 1373 Committee publicly list state sponsors of terrorism
• Increasing the focus of the International Atomic Energy Agency must increase its focus on threats from nonstate actors and expand its relatively new function of investigating nuclear trafficking networks

Speakers

• Thomas Pickering
  The Boeing Company, Member of the Task Force on the United Nations, and former U.S. Ambassador to the UN
• Robert Einhorn
  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Lead Expert with the Task Force on the United Nations
• Gary Matthews, U.S. Institute of Peace, Moderator

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