The Partnership for Global Security (PGS), originally incorporated as the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, seeks “to create the broad and integrated networks of private and public partnerships that are necessary to meet the 21st century’s global security challenges. PGS’ goal is to prevent foreseeable weapon of mass destruction threats from becoming a reality by complementing and supplementing the work of governments and achieving tangible results.” The Biological Threat Reduction Project “focuses on reducing the potential for the proliferation of dangerous biological agents by promoting security for sensitive biological infrastructure, monitoring bilateral and multilateral efforts to create peaceful market-oriented and public health-related employment opportunities for biological experts in Russia and the former Soviet states, and developing new initiatives that can facilitate these goals.”