Contents

• Editorial: New Nuclear Weapons? Perish the Thought!
  by Rebecca Johnson
• A President's Assessment of the 2005 NPT Review Conference
  by Sergio de Queiroz Duarte
  
• Enhanced Participation and Politicking: Report on the 2005 UN First Committee
  by Rebecca Johnson, including: 2005 First Committee Resolutions: Summary and Explanations
• Keeping Test Ban Hopes Alive: The 2005 CTBT Entry-into-force Conference
  by Daryl Kimball, including the Final Declaration of the Conference and the NGO Statement
  
• The Korean Nuclear Divide: View from the South
  by Lew Kwang-Chul, including Joint Statement on North Korea's nuclear programme
  
• Safeguarding Space: Building Cooperative Norms to Dampen Negative Trends
  by Theresa Hitchens
  
• Books in Review
  • An International Law Perspective on Common Security in Outer Space, by Detlev Wolter
• In the News
  • UK Trident Replacement a 'Material Breach' of the NPT, including:
    • The Future of UK Nuclear Weapons, by Lord Garden
    • Does Britain need nuclear missiles? No. Scrap them, by Michael Portillo
    • A new nuclear weapon is irrelevant to the real issues, by Clare Short
    • The Blairite love affair with the bomb will cost Britain dear

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Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
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