Discussions among practitioners and pundits are incriminating evidence of the failure to deal with the threats and dangers of proliferation. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has made an important contribution in years past, but its success remains limited as it has become an unambitious static regime, solidifying prevailing inequities or a status quo that will not st...

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...

James Clay Moltz is Research Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He also directs the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project at CNS. From 1993-98 (Vols. 1-5), Dr. Moltz was Editor of this journal. When the authors of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) crafted the...

An inspection game is a mathematical model of a situation in which an inspector verifies the adherence of an inspectee to some legal obligation, such as an arms control treaty, where the inspectee may have an interest in violating that obligation. The mathematical analysis seeks to determine an optimal inspection scheme, ideally one which will induce legal behavior, under the assumption that th...

Although the nuclear non-proliferation regime has enjoyed considerable success, today it is facing serious threats. Recent and continuing violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), particularly by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran, as well as the lack of substantive outcome from the 2005 NPT Review Conference, have led some critics to question whether the ...

This paper addresses the current uncertain status of NPT Review Conference, originally scheduled for 2020. When Conference is eventually held, three principal issues likely to be examined are continued failure bring CTBT into force; lack progress leading an international conference on importance promptly negotiating a Weapons Mass Destruction Free Zone Middle East, cause 2015 Conference; and ef...