Dr. Victor Bragin has been involved in the development of a fissile material cut-off treaty since 1994, first as Safeguards Analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and since January 1996 as Safeguards Adviser at the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO). Mr. John Carlson is Director-General of ASNO, and is a statutory officer responsible directly to the Australian...

India and Pakistan, both the south Asian countries accepted that have nuclear capability but this is only for maintaining peace not developing weapons. International bodies pressurized to open their installation checking activities as well sign NPT denied it due security reasons. The lack of talk confidence building measures between two countries. Pakistan engaged in official or unofficial talk...

Disarmament has had its ups and downs, to say the least. If Dr. Johnson were with us tonight, he might quip that its persistence marks a triumph of hope over experience. Progress in this field is often slow and incremental. Sometimes it is ambiguous or subject to conflicting interpretations. Sometimes it is hard to assign credit to individuals or specific policies when progress is made, or to a...

A number of proposals for a tax on the international trade with weapons have been made during the last 20 years. Originally, the major objectives were both to reduce the level of trade in arms and raise money for purposes such as development and disarmament. Later proposals focused on the compensation of victims of the use of specific types of weapons. Various objections have been raised agains...

Negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) were agreed to in 1998 at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva after several years’ delay caused by debates over its scope and linkage to nuclear disarmament measures. However, the negotiations have yet to get underway, as they have not been reauthorized by the CD in subsequent years. Should the negotiations move forward, it is ex...

The Nonproliferation Review (NPR) recently interviewed Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil, who presided over the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Ambassador Duarte discussed his views on the outcome of the conference and the future of the treaty. He provided NPR with valuable insights into the outcome of the conference and...

In 2014, the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) filed lawsuits against several major Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) to International Court Justice (ICJ). connection with conclusion nuclear arms race and disarmament, RMI a lawsuit alleging breach negotiating duties. However, ICJ concluded that such complaint should be dismissed since there was no urgency in case. There is concern this judgment doe...

Let me say at the outset how pleased I am to have the honour of visiting your beautiful state and of speaking with you tonight. I come, as you know, from an organization created through the vision of American leaders like Franklin Roosevelt -an organization, however, that has recently been widely caricatured as a giant paper factory and a talk shop -a huge, sprawling bureaucracy, totally out of...