Economic and Technological Trends Affecting Nuclear Nonproliferation

Historical trends related to bioterrorism: An empirical analysis.

Address for correspondence: Jonathan B. Tucker, Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 425 Van Buren Street, Monterey, CA 93940, USA; fax: 831-647-6534; e-mail: [email protected]. Since the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, killing 12...

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

A Systems Approach to Assessing Nonproliferation Strategies

Nuclear nonproliferation efforts traditionally have focused on controlling the supply of proliferation-relevant technology, material, and expertise. As barriers to diffusion of all three have been lowered, there is increased acknowledgement of the need to reduce demand for such weapons, and, in cases where efforts to prevent proliferation have failed, the need to develop effective international...

Japan’s Plutonium Program: a Proliferation Threat?

The Japanese plutonium program continues to dwell on the minds of nuclear nonproliferation watchers. Japan remains the only non-nuclear weapon state that is operating uranium enrichment and reprocessing plants, all of which are technically capable of producing fissile materials for nuclear weapons. The magnitude of these projects exceeds those of other nations that have either abandoned or post...

Stewards and Custodians: Tomorrow’s Crisis for the Russian Nuclear Weapons Complex?

For years to come, the Russian nuclear weapons production complex will remain responsible for missions that are central to international security and nonproliferation, including: • dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons; • support to Russia’s operational nuclear warhead stockpile to assure its safety, security, and reliability; • safe and secure storage, management, and disposition of hundred...