Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker directs the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Prior to this appointment, he worked on chemical and biological weapons issues at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and on the staff of the Presidential ...

Abstract In recent decades, verification methods, technologies and procedures have been significantly developed further, both technically procedurally. The competence expertise of the IAEA CTBTO considerably improved national as well international research programmes developed. A global culture with a lot knowledge, experiences has evolved in some areas. When it comes to concrete reductions cre...

paper. Its treatment of the technical issues associated with verifying both the abolition of nuclear weapons and the peaceful nature of civilian nuclear programs is a significant contribution to the debate. The paper disappoints, however, in its discussion and analysis of the political issues surrounding nuclear weapons abolition. In some way, I realize this is an unfair criticism, as the autho...

In 1950, Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He might more appropriately have been honoured with the Prize for Peace, given his ardent commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Yet, intellectually, his greatest contribution has been in philosophy for which there is no Nobel Prize. In particular, he is remembered for his paradoxes and their implications for the...

Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) leads to a chronic disarmament of the immune system. The process is progressive, having different manifestations as the status of the immune system slowly deteriorates. Some of the most common manifestations of HIV infection are cutaneous in origin, and they can have infectious, neoplastic, or noninfectious or non-neoplastic etiologies. A br...