New Approaches to Nonproliferation : Supplementing or Supplanting the Regime ? Viewpoint

Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: Searching for Common Ground Verification of and compliance with the nuclear nonproliferation regime: Renewed commitments or new approaches?

In the Shadow of Anthrax: Strengthening the Biological Disarmament Regime Viewpoint

Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker has directed the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, since March 1996. He is the editor of Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (MIT Press, 2000), and the author of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Atlantic Month...

VIEWPOINT : THE CTBT AND THE 1997 NPT PREPCOM by Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson is an independent analyst on disarmament issues based in London and Geneva. She has published several reports on the NPT Review and Extension Conference and on negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament. She represented the ACRONYM Consortium at the NPT Conference as a nongovernmental representative. The relationship between comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) negotiations a...

Nonproliferation Prospects after the South Asian Nuclear Tests

by Wade Huntley The May 1998 nuclear tests by both India and Pakistan, accompanied by the expressed intentions of both countries to become fullfledged nuclear weapon states, present the prospect of a new nuclear arms race in South Asia. Perhaps even more ominous is the potential for these events to promote degradation of security relations and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction beyond...

The Gas Centrifuge and the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The gas centrifuge is a particularly challenging technology for the institutions of the existing nonproliferation regime. Centrifuge facilities can be reconfigured for the production of weapon-grade uranium in a comparatively short time-frame, while clandestine facilities are virtually impossible to detect with technical intelligence tools. A potential expansion in nuclear power and the natural...