Chemical Security Program

The Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR), part of the Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), sponsors foreign assistance activities funded by the Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs (NADR) account, and focuses on mitigating weapons of mass destruction (WMD), related delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons proliferation and security threats from proliferator states and non-state actors. Please carefully follow all instructions below. CTR’s Chemical Security Program (CSP) works with foreign partners’ law enforcement, government, academic, industrial, and technical scientific communities to strengthen their ability to prevent, detect, mitigate, and respond to chemical attacks, the malign proliferation and use of weaponizable chemicals, and advances in vertical chemical weapons (CW) proliferation by states in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) as the program’s top priority, as well as chemical attacks by non-state actors as an area of decreased emphasis in FY23. As proliferator state and non-state actor use of CW continues to evolve, CSP uses its programmatic global resources to adapt rapidly.