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Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

Office of Missile, Biological, and Chemical Nonproliferation

Our Mission

The Office of Missile, Biological, and Chemical Nonproliferation leads working-level U.S. government efforts to impede, roll back, and eliminate the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons, missile delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction, and related equipment, materials, and technology.

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future