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Help With Using This Section
Navigating
Program Pages
Interactive Budget Database
This section is intended to provide comprehensive, "one-stop-shopping" on the threat posed by insecure nuclear weapons and materials and the steps being taken to eliminate that threat. Below are some tips on how to make the best use of the information available here.
Navigating This Section
Getting back to NTI's research library.This section is part of the larger NTI Research Library. Click on "Research Library" in the toolbar at the top of any of the pages of this section to get to the home page for the entire research library.
Getting back to the "Securing the Bomb" home page. Click on the blue area that says "Securing the Bomb" on the top of the navigation bar on the right hand side of each page.
Using the section's navigation bar to find the information you need.Directly underneath the blue area entitled "Securing the Bomb" is the menu bar to be used for navigating this section. The top level of the menu bar is organized around the threat posed by insecure nuclear weapons and materials and the steps needed to reduce that threat (rather than by U.S. government department or by country in which the program is engaged). Clicking on any of these top-level menu items will bring up a page that introduces that topic and points the user to the additional, more detailed pages contained within that section. The first two menu items provide cross-cutting overview material and descriptions of the threat posed by inadequate controls over nuclear warheads, materials and expertise; the remaining six menu items are categories into which we have divided the many threat reduction programs focused on reducing these threats.
Moving the cursor over any of the main items in the menu bar, or over the double arrows next to any one of those main items, automatically causes a list of the pages contained under that particular heading to appear. (If you want the list to go away again, just move the cursor away from the menu items and their pointers.) You do not have to click anything to pull down the list of programs; just roll the cursor over the item and the listing of programs will appear. Once the list you want has appeared, you can just go down that list and click directly to the particular page you want to see. To select the listing of pages under a different main item, simply move the cursor off to the left or right of the menu bar, and then roll the cursor to the new main item; the new listing under that heading will appear.
You can also roll over and click on the double arrows to the left of each main heading to quickly and easily view, then select, the pages listed under each main heading.
The navigation bar is organized in a way that offers varying levels of detail to users based on their levels of interest. Users interested in the big picture can read just the summary pages in the Overview and Budget section and the main pages for each of the other main items. If you are looking for more detail, and know which program or issue you want to find out more about, you can use the navigation bar to go directly to the page on the subject you are interested in.
Program Pages
Each major U.S.-funded cooperative threat reduction program relating to reducing the chance that nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise will fall into the hands of terrorists or hostile states has a separate page in this section.
Program menu.At the top of each of these program pages is a table of contents that allows you to skip down to the particular section you may be most interested in ? the program's status and accomplishments to date, its budget, key issues it faces and recommendations for overcoming them, and annotated links to other useful information about the program available on the web. At the end of any of those individual sections within the page, the user can either click to go "back to top" or to "print page." In addition, every page contains a listing of Related Links that the user might find helpful
Photos.In many pages, pictures of relevant facilities or equipment are included. Users can click anywhere on the picture to bring up a larger version of the image, with a more detailed explanation of what is being shown.
Programmatic Budget Tables and Graphs. Where appropriate, directly at the beginning of the Budget section for each program, users can click to "See Budget Table". Doing so will bring up a table of data on the current, future, and recent past funding budgeted for that particular program. For the last year on each table for which data is available, users will see information on the current state of the budget process ? what the President proposed in his budget, what level the House of Representatives and the Senate each approved (if those votes have occurred), and the final amount signed into law (if that has taken place).
At the bottom of each program's budget table, users can also choose to see graphs showing the full history of funding for that program, or the full history of funding for all cooperative threat reduction programs. For these graphs, users can simply roll the cursor over any individual piece to see the exact figure represented in the graph. In addition, by rolling the cursor over the year along the bottom axis of the graph, the user can see the total amount of funds budgeted for that particular year.
In addition, at the bottom of each individual program table, users can access the Interactive Budget Database that we have compiled for this web section.
Interactive Budget Database
Underneath the menu bar is a red tab titled "Threat Reduction Budgets". Clicking on the "GO" button pops up a separate screen that allows users to take advantage of the extensive cooperative threat reduction budget data that we have collected for this site. This part of the site will walk you through a step-by-step process that allows you to create your own table of budget information, with any threat reduction programs you choose, and any budget years you may be interested in.
First, you will be asked if you want to select whole groups of programs all at once. If you do not want to do that, and know exactly which programs you want to work with, you can instead choose to select those individual programs from complete lists of threat reduction programs, categorized in several possible ways.
Next, you will be asked to select the particular programs or groups of programs for which you want budget data. Once you make that selection and click on "Next", you will be asked to select the first and last years for which data should be shown (going back as far as 1992, the first year of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program in the former Soviet Union, and as far forward as the current fiscal year).
The Securing the Bomb section of the NTI website is produced by the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) for NTI, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. MTA welcomes comments and suggestions at atom@harvard.edu. Copyright 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.