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Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction
Our Mission
The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) seeks to prevent proliferator states and terrorist groups from developing or acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and delivery systems that could threaten the U.S. homeland and U.S. interests abroad.