Modern China has been linked with the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and missile weapons technology to states of proliferation concern, and its compliance with arms control and disarmament is seen as key to the effectiveness of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) nonproliferation efforts. In this context, the answer to Gerald Segal’s question, “Does China really matter?” is most definitely, ...

Scientists have, within the frame of the Conference on Disarmament, been successfully engaged in support of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) for many decades, starting long before negotiations began. This article proposes an International Scientific Network (ISN) to engage the global scientific community to explore how scientific and technological developments can support nuclea...

Michael Moodie is President of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a former Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he had responsibility for a range of arms control matters, including negotiations concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention and issues related to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Dr. Amy S...

Commentators differ on whether nuclear disarmament would be desirable, but many argue that disarmament is impractical because it could not be verified. Three reasons are often offered for such pessimism. First, nuclear weapons are small and difficult to detect, and one could not be sure that a few weapons had not been hidden away. Second, nuclear weapons are so destructive that a mere handful w...

I wish to express my deep gratitude to the Bonn International Center for Conversion for inviting me as the keynote speaker this evening. I have been an admirer of the work of BICC for many years in many fields of international peace and security and wish in particular to acknowledge the excellent work of Herbert Wulf and Michael Brzoska. BICC in many ways epitomizes the benefits that civil soci...

The automated detection, recognition, and identification of small arms through deep learning tools is a recent process that seems to offer interesting possibilities in the field conventional disarmament. As research has so far mainly focused on detection models context domestic security, it explore, this paper, development basic recognition model its potential use disarmament; paper lays founda...