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Disarmament Diplomacy
Between 1997 and 2009, the Acronym Institute in-house journal ‘Disarmament Diplomacy’ provided critical coverage of developments in disarmament negotiations, multilateral arms control and international security. Although Disarmament Diplomacy has now been discontinued, the archive remains an important source of information for opinion-formers and policy-makers in governments and among nongovernmental organisations and civil society around the world.
Issue No.91, Summer 2009
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Needed: Good Leaders to Cut the Nuclear Posturing
Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson
- Laying Substantive Groundwork for 2010: Report
of the 2009 NPT PrepCom
by Rebecca Johnson, including:- Recommendations to the Review Conference, 7 May 2009
- Recommendations to the Review Conference, Rev 1, 13 May 2009
- Nuclear Testing and Proliferation —
an Inextricable Connection
by Thomas Graham, Jr. and David Hafemeister
- Unfinished Business: Lessons from the CTBT
Negotiations
by Rebecca Johnson
- A Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty:
Some Observations on Scope and Verification
by Paul Meyer
- Japan’s Challenges and Dilemmas over
Nuclear Disarmament
by Masa Takubo
- Midpoint between Review Conferences: Next
Steps to Strengthen the BWC
by Nicholas A. Sims
- Towards a Negotiating Mandate for an Arms
Trade Treaty
by Michael Spies
- The Conference on Disarmament in 2009: Could
do Better
by Ray Acheson, including: - Disarmament News Review
- Obama and Medvedev agree Framework for Strategic Arms Talks, including:
- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev interview on foreign policy, 5 July 2009
- NATO Launches Strategic Concept Review
- UK publishes Roadmap to 2010, including:
- Iran Nuclear Talks Reach Critical Stage
- Second North Korean Nuclear Test underscores urgency of CTBT and Disarmament
- CTBTO prepares for Zero-growth Budget
- African Nuclear Weapon-free Zone Treaty Enters into Force
- Yukiya Amano Appointed Next IAEA Director-General
- No consensus on International Nuclear Fuel Bank
- US - UAE Nuclear Cooperation
- Indian ballistic missile submarine begins sea trials
- OPCW Director-General reports on Chemical Weapons Destruction
- Calls for Greater Progress on Implementation at Ottawa Convention Meetings
Issue No.90, Spring 2009
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Leadership, Hope and Realistic Security
Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson
- Towards 2010 and Beyond:
- Security Assurances for Everyone: A New
Approach to Deterring the Use of Nuclear Weapons
by Rebecca Johnson
- Challenges for the Non-Proliferation
Regime and the Middle East
by Sameh Aboul-Enein
- Proposals, Positions and Prospects:
Issues facing the 2010 NPT Review Conference
by Michael Spies
- Challenges for the NPT: Iran and North
Korea
by Michael Spies
- Security Assurances for Everyone: A New
Approach to Deterring the Use of Nuclear Weapons
- Trident: Still the Wrong Weapon at the Wrong
Time for the Wrong Reasons
by Nick Ritchie
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls for World
without Nuclear Weapons, 17 March 2009
- Will President Obama meet the Challenge to
Control the Conventional Arms Trade?
Natalie Goldring
- Towards a new US Nuclear Posture
- Introduction, including:
- Joint Statement by President Dmitriy Medvedev of the Russian Federation and President Barack Obama of the United States of America, London, April 1, 2009
- Barack Obama, President of the
United States of America,
Speech at Hradcany Square, Prague, 5 April, 2009
- Report I: A New Strategic Posture for the United States and a Nuclear Weapons Complex to Support it, Nuclear Weapons Complex Consolidation (NWCC) Policy Network
- Report II: From Counterforce to Minimal
Deterrence:
A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris and Ivan Oelrich
- Introduction, including:
Issue No.89, Winter 2008
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Nuclear Weapons Treaty: An Idea whose Time Has Come
Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson -
Between Irrelevance and a New Era:
Report on the 2008 UN First Committee
by Michael Spies, including: -
Bringing Biologists on Board
Report from the 2008 Meeting of BWC Experts
by Kathryn McLaughlin
- Reaching a Tipping Point:
Strengthening BWC Confidence-Building Measures
by Filippa Lentzos
- In the News
- The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world
- UK Debates on Nuclear Disarmament,
including:
- A world without nuclear weapons, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, www.guardian.co.uk, 8 December 2008.
- Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the conditions for abolishing nuclear weapons, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4 February 2009.
- Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity, The Rt Hon William Hague MP, 23 July 2008.
- Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Foreign Affairs and Defence debate, House of Commons, 10 December 2008.
- Security and Liberty in a Globalised World, Liberal Democrat Policy Paper, September 2008, excerpt.
- Shared Destinies, IPPR Commission on National Security Interim Report, 27 November 2008, excerpts
- UK does not need a Nuclear Deterrent, Letter from Field Marshal Lord Bramall, General Lord Ramsbotham and General Sir Hugh Beach to the Times, 16 January 2009.
- President Sarkozy calls for Disarmament Debate
- Toward a nuclear-free world: a German view
- Contrasting US Perspectives, including
- A New Beginning for Nuclear Diplomacy? Remarks of Senator Barack Obama, Chicago, 2 October 2008, excerpts
- Nuclear Deterrence, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Speech at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.), 28 October 2008, excerpts.
- Let's Commit to a Nuclear-Free World, Senator Dianne Feinstein, 3 January 2009
Issue No.88, Summer 2008
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Economic Insecurity: Threat or Opportunity? Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson
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The 2008 NPT PrepCom: Good Meeting, but was it Relevant? by Rebecca Johnson, including:
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What Price Nuclear Blackmail? General Sir Hugh Beach
- Renewing Trident: Can the UK's Atomic Weapons
Establishment Cope? Henrietta Wilson
- How the Cluster Munition Ban Was Won: Oslo
Treaty Negotiations conclude in Dublin, John Borrie
- In the News
- Deal or No Deal: Can the North Korea Nuclear Agreement be Salvaged?, including Press Communiqué of the Heads of Delegation Meeting of The Sixth Round of the Six-Party Talks, Beijing, 12 July 2008
- The Conference on Disarmament in 2008: Still in Denial
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd initiates New International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
- Concerns as US-India Nuclear Deal Goes Through, including Statement by US President George W. Bush on the Occasion of Signing H.R. 7081
Issue No.87, Spring 2008
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Time to Outlaw the Use of Nuclear Weapons, Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson
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Is the NPT being Overtaken by Events? by Rebecca Johnson
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Stagnation and Redundancy: Report on the 2007 UN First Committee, by Michael Spies, including:
- US and Russian Public Opinion on Arms Control
and Space Security, Nancy Gallagher
- Space War, the Logical Next Mistake for US
Exceptionalism, Mike Moore
- Bucharest Summit: US Missile Defence Bases
Continue to Divide NATO, by Nicola Butler and Martin Butcher
- In the News
- Toward a Nuclear-Free World, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn and others, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008
- A World Free of Nuclear Weapons George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007
- Laying the Foundations for Multilateral Disarmament, Des Browne MP, UK Secretary of State for Defence, Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, February 5, 2008
- Presentation of Le Terrible in Cherbourg, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, March 21, 2008 (excerpts)
- Oslo Conference on Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, March 4, 2008 (excerpts)
- North Atlantic Council (NAC) Statement on The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, March 28, 2008
- Bucharest Summit Declaration, April 3, 2008
- US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration, April 6, 2008
- Conference on Disarmament fails to adopt 2008 programme of work, tries new P-6 presidential draft decision, March 13, 2008
Issue No.86, Autumn 2007
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Intelligence on Nuclear Weapons
Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson -
New Impetus, Old Excuses - Report on the Conference on Disarmament in 2007, by Michael Hamel-Green
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Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, by Jenny Nielsen
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Rethinking Security Interests for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East, by Rebecca Johnson
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Building Blocks for a WMD Disarmament Regime in the Middle East, by Merav Datan
- In the News
- Iran masters Uranium Enrichment as US Intelligence Report Says Nuclear Weapons Programme Halted in 2003, including:
- North Korea: Good Progress, but Obstacles Remain, including:
- UK Foreign Policy emphasizes Disarmament
while MoD presses ahead with Renewing Trident, including:
- Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Margaret Beckett, Speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Conference, Washington DC, June 25, 2007
- New Diplomacy: Challenges for Foreign Policy, speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet
- Europe 2030: Model Power not Superpower, Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, College of Europe Speech, Bruges
- Ministry of Defence Accounts (Trident excerpts)
- Ballistic Missile Defence,
Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Defence Des
Browne MP
- Scotland holds Summit on Trident and
seeks NPT Observer Status, including:
- Scottish Government Summit on Trident, October 22, 2007
- Letter from Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond to States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, October 15, 2007
Issue No. 85, Summer 2007
- Scotland votes to become Nuclear Free
Editorial by Rebecca Johnson
- Back from the Brink?
The 2007 NPT PrepCom Report
by Rebecca Johnson
A detailed analysis of the conduct, dynamics, and substantive debates at the 2007 NPT PrepCom.
See also: Chair's Summary, reproduced in full
- Weapons of Terror: The Report of the WMD
Commission One Year On
by Hans Blix
The Chair of the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission reflects on the security environment and key recommendations one year after the Report was published.
- The WMD Commission One Year Later: Impact
and Assessment
by John Burroughs
A critique of the WMDC Report from a US perspective, analysing what it got right and highlighting where it should have gone further.
See also: Recommendations of the WMD Commission.
- The Road from Oslo:
Emerging International Efforts on Cluster Munitions
by John Borrie
A detailed analysis of recent progress in raising awareness of the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions and getting multilateral negotiations underway on a prohibition treaty.
- Representation from the Trenches: Ongoing
Monitoring for Implementing the BWC
by Filippa Lentzos
Discusses the roles of statutory and voluntary/self-governance mechanisms for life science oversight and provides detailed examples of different oversight mechanisms and informal monitoring systems.
- In the News
Issue No. 84, Spring 2007
- Signs of the Times: NPT not WMD
Editorial by Rebecca Johnson
- Looking Towards 2010:
What does the Nonproliferation Regime need?
by Rebecca Johnson
Consideration of the political, procedural and substantive challenges as NPT parties meet in Vienna for the first Preparatory Committee meeting of the 2010 review cycle.
- The 2006 BWC Review Conference
The President’s Reflections
by Masood Khan
The President of the Sixth Biological and Toxin Weapons Review Conference reflects on the factors that contributed to a significant success, with lessons for future multilateral diplomacy. - Rising Out of the Doldrums: Report on the BWC Review Conference
by Richard Guthrie
From the author of daily reports during the BWC conference, a detailed assessment of the conduct and outcome, with annexes on the proposed (but unadopted) Action Plans and civil society contributions.
- A Counter-Bioterrorism Strategy for the new UN Secretary-General
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
Argues for new multilateral approaches for dealing with bioterrorism, including reorganisation and resourcing of the UN Secretary-General's investigational capability to strengthen BWC compliance.
- Strategies to Prevent Bioterrorism: Biosecurity Policies in the US and Germany
by Jonathan B. Tucker
A detailed comparison of US and German approaches for addressing biosecurity in the age of international terrorism, drawing out the strengths and weaknesses.
- 2006 Review Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Study in Frustration
by Natalie Goldring
Report on the July 2006 small arms conference, with analysis of the reasons for its failure and consideration of further multilateral initiatives to curb the arms trade.
- NATO, Riga and Beyond
by Martin Butcher
Analyses the challenges facing NATO at the Riga Summit and argues that the Alliance needs to develop a more appropriate - and non-nuclear - Strategic Concept if it is to have relevance in the transformed security environment.
- In the News
Issue No. 83, Winter 2006
- The Realist Message: Abolish Nuclear Weapons
editorial by Rebecca Johnson
- The UK White Paper on Renewing Trident: the wrong decision at the wrong time
by Rebecca Johnson
Providing a critical assessment of the Trident renewal justifications by Tony Blair's government, Acronym Institute's director argues for Britain to play a more visionary and coherent role to prevent security threats that nuclear weapons will not prove capable of deterring.
See also:- Tony Blair introduces White Paper, statement to Parliament December 4, 2006
- Faslane 365: Don't replace Trident, scrap it!
- Time for a Fissban - or Farewell?
by Jenni Rissanen
The IAEA's former representative in Geneva provides an in-depth analysis of past efforts and current prospects for negotiating a fissile material production ban in the Conference on Disarmament. Includes verbatim texts of the US no-verification mandate, draft and explanation tabled in May 2006.
See also: - Cooperation and Cautious Optimism: Report on the 2006 UN First Committee
by Jennifer Nordstrom
A comprehensive report on the UN's annual disarmament and security deliberations, with a detailed summary of all resolutions and votes in the 61st First Committee and General Assembly.
- In the News
Issue No. 82, Spring 2006
- Integrated Disarmament: a Prerequisite for
Sustainable Nonproliferation
by Rebecca Johnson
- Towards the BWC Review Conference:
Diplomacy Still in the Doldrums
by Nicholas A. Sims
- Practical Steps to Accelerate BWC
Universality
by Daniel Feakes
- Small Arms and Light Weapons: Making the UN
Programme of Action work
by Rebecca Peters
- Cooperation and Defection in the Conference
on Disarmament
by John Borrie
- Implementing Resolution 1540: What the National Reports
Indicate
by Lars Olberg
- Industry and Nonproliferation: Don't
Neglect the First Line of Defence
by Matthew C. Fuhrmann
- Two Treaties to Contain Missile
Proliferation
by Thomas Graham and Dinshaw Mistry
- North Korean Denuclearisation: A Chinese
View of the Way Forward
by Hui Zhang
- In the News
Issue No. 81, Winter 2005
- 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
- UK Trident Replacement a 'Material Breach' of the NPT, including:
Issue No. 80, Autumn 2005
- Editorial: Three Cities
by Rebecca Johnson - Politics and Protection: Why the 2005 NPT
Review Conference Failed
by Rebecca Johnson
- Reviving The Disarmament Regimes: Recommendations
of the High Level Panel and Secretary-General's Advisory Board
by Harald Müller
- The Relevance of Gender for Eliminating
Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Carol Cohn with Felicity Hill and Sara Ruddick
- National Security and Neo-Arms Control in
the Bush Administration
by Jeffrey A. Larsen
- Just War and the Responsibility to Protect:
UN Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention
by Hugh Beach
- In the News
Issue No. 79, April/May 2005
- The 2005 NPT Conference in Crisis: Risks and Opportunities
by Rebecca Johnson - 2004 UN First Committee:
Better Organised, with Deep Divisions
by Rebecca Johnson
- The Right to Withdraw from the NPT:
Article X is Not Unconditional
by George Bunn and John Rhinelander
- Slow Road to Nowhere:
North Korea and the Six Party Nuclear Talks
by Nicola Butler
- Security Council Resolution 1540: WMD and Non-state Trafficking
by Merav Datan - The Fissban: Time for Renewed Commitment or a New Approach?
by Jean du Preez - Endpiece: Is anyone thinking what we're thinking?
A Light Look at the 2005 UK Election
by Nicola Butler and Rebecca Johnson
Issue No. 78, July/August 2004
- Editorial: Vote if you Can: Otherwise,
Pray
by Rebecca Johnson - Two Terrifying Reports: The US Senate and
the 9/11 Commission on Intelligence Failures Before September 11
and the Iraq War
by Joseph Cirincione
- Lord Butler's Report on UK
Intelligence
by Stephen Pullinger
- Kerry or Bush:
What Future for US Security Policy?
by John Isaacs
- Strengthening the BWC:
A Way Forward
by Jonathan B. Tucker - The Challenge of Biological Weapons:
Proposals for Greater EU Effectiveness
by Ulla Jasper - The EU and the NPT: Testing the New European
Nonproliferation Strategy
by Clara Portela
- Books in View: The Sovereignty Revolution
by Alan Cranston
Introduced by Kim Cranston - In The News
- Deep Divisions over Iraq at NATO's
Istanbul Summit, including text of:
- The Istanbul Declaration: Our security in a new era
- Statement on Iraq - Renewal of US-UK Nuclear Cooperation 'in
Breach of NPT' say Eminent Lawyers, including:
- Mutual Defence Agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Joint Advice from Rabinder Singh QC and Professor Christine Chinkin, Matrix Chambers - IAEA Censure as Iran Moves Closer to the
Brink, including:
- IAEA Resolution on Iran, June 2004 - One step Forward, Two steps Back: Six
Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Programme, including:
- Chair's Statement of the Third Round of the Six-Party Talks, June 26, 2004 - News Shorts, including:
- US proposes "no-verification" Fissban to be negotiated at the Conference on Disarmament
- South Korea Discloses Secret Nuclear Experiments to the IAEA
- India tests Agni II missile
- Deep Divisions over Iraq at NATO's
Istanbul Summit, including text of:
Issue No. 77, May/June 2004
- Editorial: Banking on Abused
Loyalties
by Rebecca Johnson - Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Europe's Redundant
WMD
by Hugh Beach
- NATO's Istanbul Challenge: Transformation or
Irrelevance?
by Nicola Butler
- Incorporating Environmental Considerations
into Arms Control
by Alexander H. Joffe
- Report on the 2004 NPT PrepCom
by Rebecca Johnson, including Chair's Summary from the PrepCom
- A Model Code of Conduct for Space
Assurance
by Michael Krepon and Michael Heller
- Libya, Iraq and Iran: Updates and Analyses, by Stephen Pullinger and Dany Shoham
- In The News
Issue No. 76, March/April 2004
- Editorial: The Nuclear Conundrum: Security or Terror by Rebecca Johnson
- The NPT in 2004: Testing the Limits
by Rebecca Johnson
- The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for
Nonproliferation
by Lawrence Scheinman
- WMD in the Middle East: A Diminishing
Currency
by Avner Cohen and Thomas Graham Jr.
- Preserving UNMOVIC: The Institutional
Possibilities
by Trevor Findlay
- Dr. Khan's Nuclear WalMart
by Christopher Clary
- Transparency and the Coming
Democracy
by Ann Florini
- Civil Society: the "Other
Superpower"
by David Cortright
- In The News (or Should Be)
Issue No. 75, January/February 2004
- Editorial: Transparency and Exposure
- From Arms Control to Cooperative Threat
Reduction
by Michael Krepon
- Enforcing WMD Treaties: Consolidating a UN
Role
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
- Building on the Experience: Lessons from
UNSCOM and UNMOVIC
by Terence Taylor
- NATO'S Future: To the Greater Middle East
and Beyond?
by Nicola Butler
- The IAEA's Strengthened Safeguards System
Gaining Ground
by Jan Lodding
- WMD in Iraq: Evidence and
Implications
by Alexis Orton and Joseph Cirincione
- In the News
- UK White Papers on Defence and Foreign Policy
- Iran, Libya, and Pakistan's Nuclear Supermarket
- North Korea: Six Party Nuclear Talks Delayed
- Hans Blix Launches International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Lord Hutton Reports on the Death of Dr David Kelly
- President Bush and Mohamed ElBaradei on WMD Proliferation
Issue No. 74, December 2003
- Editorial It's about Security, Stupid!
- Reports & Analysis "Troubled and Troubling Times":
The 2003 UN First Committee Considers Disarmament and Reform
By Rebecca Johnson - Reports & Analysis President Bush's War on Terror
By Paul Rogers - Reports & Analysis The European Union: Seeking Common
Ground for Tackling Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Stephen Pullinger and Gerrard Quille - In the News
- North Korea's Nuclear Brinkmanship
- Addressing Iran's Nuclear Programme: the US, IAEA, and European Foreign Ministers
- UK Debates Iraq War, WMD and Defence Policy
- BWC Meeting Adopts Minimal Report
- Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Meeting, Paris, September 3-4
- Mayors for Peace Launch New Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons
- Geneva Accord, December 1, 2003
Issue No. 73, October - November 2003
- Editorial Treaties Are Not Enough: A Departing Editor's Reflections
- Opinion & Analysis A Receding Disarmament Horizon? Lessons From an Era of Retreat and Defeat
By Sean Howard - Opinion & Analysis Beyond Article XIV: Strategies To Save The CTBT
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis A Sickening Episode: Nuclear Looting in Iraq and the Global Threat From Radiological Weapons
By Andy Oppenheimer - Opinion & Analysis Overcoming Deadlock in the CD
By Rakesh Sood - News Analysis
- North Korea Nuclear Talks End In Stalemate
- IAEA Adopts Critical Resolution in Deepening Crisis over Iran's Nuclear Programme
Appendix: Resolution on Iran, IAEA Board of Governors, September 12 - The Hutton Inquiry: was Iraq a Serious and Current Threat?
- US Policy: WMD, Good and Bad
- Substance Hidden Under A Mountain Of Paper: The BWC Experts' Meeting In 2003
Issue No. 72, August - September 2003
- Opinion & Analysis The First Biennial Meeting of States on
Small Arms: Building Momentum for Global Action
By Peter Batchelor - Opinion & Analysis What Price British Influence?
Tony Blair And The Decision to Back Missile Defence
By Nicola Butler - Opinion & Analysis Managing Missiles: Blind Spot Or Blind
Alley?
By W. Pal S. Sidhu and Christophe Carle - Opinion & Analysis Preparing the Ground for Modest Steps: A
Progress Report on the Hague Code of Conduct
By Mark Smith - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of Iraq WMD search, drift in the North Korea nuclear crisis, IAEA and Iran, hesitant rapprochement in South Asia, nuclear developments in US Congress and 25th anniversary of UN Special Session on Disarmament.
- See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, including Moscow Treaty, missile defence developments, and UN talks on explosive remnants of war, May 1 - July 10, 2003.
Issue No. 71, June - July 2003
- Editorial: Beware Intelligence Intimidation In Defence
Debates
By Rebecca Johnson - NPT Report Rogues and Rhetoric: The 2003 NPT PrepCom
Slides Backwards
By Rebecca Johnson - CWC Report The CWC After Its First Review Conference :
Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
By Alexander Kelle - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of the search for weapons in Iraq, North Korea nuclear crisis, US diplomatic pressure on Iran & Syria, diplomatic thaw in South Asia, and Moscow Treaty on hold.
- See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, including missile defence & Russia CW destruction, April 1 - May 10, 2003.
Issue No. 70, April - May 2003
- Editorial: Resisting the Poisoned Chalice: The UN and
the Aftermath of War
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: Incentives, Obligations And Enforcement:
Does the NPT Meet its States Parties' Needs?
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: Biological Disarmament Diplomacy in The
Doldrums: Reflections After The BWC Fifth Review Conference
By Nicholas A. Sims - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of the Iraq conflict, North Korea NPT crisis, US insists Iran poses growing nuclear threat, US nuclear and missile defence developments, Duma delays SORT ratification.
- See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, February 1 - April 1, 2003.
Issue No. 69, February - March 2003
- Editorial: Is Bush The Terrorists' Dream
President?
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: International vs. Domestic Nuclear
Safeguards: The Need for Clarity in the Debate over
Effectiveness
By Roger G. Johnston and Morten Bremer Maerli - Opinion & Analysis: Good News for Non-Proliferation? The
Changing Relationship Between Russia, NATO and the NPT
By Sverre Lodgaard - Opinion & Analysis: Defending Against Biodefence: The Need for
Limits
By Barbara Hatch Rosenberg - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including hourglass runs towards war with Iraq, North Korea turns its back on the NPT, US WMD strategy, US missile defence and nuclear weapons programmes, UK supports missile defence, US nuclear allegations against Iran, South Asian nuclearisation continues, and further non-proliferation news.
- See also: News Review Special Edition, for extensive coverage of International Developments, November 15 2002 - February 1, 2003.
Issue No. 68, December 2002 - January 2003
- Opinion & Analysis: Stuck on the Launch Pad? The Ballistic Missile Code of Conduct Opens for Business
By Mark Smith - Opinion & Analysis: Anti-Satellite Capabilities of Planned US Missile Defence Systems
By David Wright and Laura Grego - BWC Report: Waiting for Godot or Saving The Show? The BWC Review Conference Reaches Modest Agreement
By Marie Isabelle Chevrier - First Committee Report: Anxiety, Hope and Cynicism:
The 2002 UN First Committee
By Fiona Simpson - Appendix: Summary of Resolutions
- News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Last Chance for Peace in Iraq, North Korea crisis escalates, Carter, Butler condemn double standards, Russia stresses missile defence cooperation, US enhances stockpile stewardship, troop withdrawals in South Asia, Moscow Siege - use of gas.
- See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, October 1 - November 15, 2002.
Issue No. 67, October - November 2002
- Editorial: A Farewell to
Acronym but not to Disarmament
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: From
the Lab to the Battlefield? Nanotechnology and Fourth-Generation
Nuclear Weapons
By André Gsponer - Opinion & Analysis: US
Space Policy: Time to Stop and Think
By Theresa Hitchens - CWC Report: Emerging From a
Trial by Fire?
By Fiona Tregonning - CD Report: CD Closes 2002 Still
Deadlocked
By Rebecca Johnson - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Iraq crisis, new US security strategy, Moscow Treaty, US Tritium plans, Cuba to join NPT, CTBT anniversary, North Korea, Tension in South Asia, and international non-proliferation and disarmament news.
Issue No. 66, September 2002
- Editorial: One Year After 9/11:
What Have We Learned?
By Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: Drawing
the Line: the Path to Controlling Weapons in Space
By Philip E. Coyle and John B. Rhinelander - Opinion & Analysis: Preventing Terrorist Access to Dangerous
Pathogens: The Need for International Biosecurity Standards
By Jonathan B. Tucker - Opinion & Analysis: Deterrence or a Deadly Game? Nuclear Propaganda
and Reality in South Asia
By Achin Vanaik - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries, India-Pakistan crisis, US-Russia relations, US nuclear posture, Russia-China draft space treaty, Iraq inspections crisis, and international non-proliferation news.
Issue No. 65, July - August 2002
- Editorial: Nuclear Brinkmanship
Is Not Deterrence
by Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: Nanotechnology and Mass Destruction: The Need for
an Inner Space Treaty
by Sean Howard - Opinion & Analysis: The
Emerging European Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Agenda on
Chemical and Biological Weapons
by Daniel Feakes - Opinion & Analysis: Preventing Chemical Warfare and Terrorism: The CWC
and the Middle East
by Pamela Mills - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including India and Pakistan go to the brink, US-Russia summit, new NATO-Russia relationship, US shakes off ABM Treaty, continuing discussion of new nuclear weapons/test readiness, Japan nuclear controversy, and latest developments on North Korea, Iraq, and BWC.
Issue No. 64, May - June 2002
- Editorial: Democracy and
Security,
by Rebecca Johnson - Opinion & Analysis: The US
Nuclear Posture Review:
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
by Jack Mendelsohn - NPT Report: The 2002 PrepCom:
Papering over the Cracks?
by Rebecca Johnson - CD Update: Conference Remains
Deadlocked after First Part of 2002 Session
by Rebecca Johnson - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including OPCW Director-General ousted, US-Russia missile defence and nuclear developments, Cooperative Threat Reduction, IAEA Nuclear Terrorism plan, US nuclear waste disposal, and all the latest arms control developments concerning North Korea, Russia, South Asia, Iran and Iraq.
Issue No. 63, March - April 2002
- Politics v. Procedures: Implementing the NPT, by Rebecca Johnson
- International Law and the Military Uses of Space, by Ambassador Thomas Graham
- Fostering Nuclear Transparency in South Asia through Cooperative Remote Sensing Projects, by Gaurav Rajen
- Rules for the Road?
The International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, by Mark Smith - News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including US-Russia talks, US nuclear spending plans, missile defence developments, US nuclear posture controversy, Response to Axis of Evil speech, and the latest developments in arms control and disarmament.
Issue No. 62, January - February 2002
- Editorial: The Law of the Jungle, by Rebecca Johnson
- Opinion & Analysis: Alternative Approaches to Arms Control in a Changing World, by Kerry M. Kartchner and George R. Pitman
- Opinion & Analysis: The First CWC Review Conference: Challenges and Opportunities, by Alexander Kelle
- BWC Report: Left in Limbo: Review Conference Suspended On Edge of Collapse, by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review, including: South Asia crisis; US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty; speculation on future US nuclear testing; low yield nuclear weapons; latest on Iraq and North Korea, and latest arms control developments.
Issue No. 61, October - November 2001
- Editorial: Summits that Cheat Security, by Rebecca Johnson
- CTBT Report: Boycotts and Blandishments: Making the CTBT Visible, by Rebecca Johnson
- Business as Usual in a Changed World: The 2001 UN First Committee by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Bush-Putin summit; Bush Statement on BWC; Concern over Pakistan Nuclear Weapons; Russia and Iran; US-Korea; UN-Iraq relations stalled; No Breakthrough in US-China discussions.
Issue No. 60, September 2001
- Editorial: To Defeat Terrorism, by Rebecca Johnson
- The 2001 UN Conference on Small Arms: A First Step? by Peter Batchelor
- Multinational Security Cooperation and Military Doctrines in the OSCE Area by Harald Müller
- The Case for a BWC Committee of Oversight: Draft Mandate and Commentary by Nicholas A Sims
- Monitoring Results: Landmine Monitor Report 2001 by Mary Wareham and Stephen D. Goose
- CD Update: Annual Session Ends In Shadow of Attacks in US by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: UN Secretary-General's Annual Report; Ottawa Convention Meeting; IAEA General Conference; Interview with Russian President; Speech by Russian Foreign Minister; US Quadrennial Defense Review; US-Indian Nuclear Policy; MTCR Plenary Meeting; Missile Defence Overshadowed by Attack on US; US lifts South Asia sanctions; DoD Reported to Recommend Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons; US Biological Warfare Research.
Issue No. 59, July - August 2001
- Editorial: Is Disarmament Being Left To Rust?
- Squaring The Circle: Can NMD And Nuclear Arms Control Be Reconciled? by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jack Mendelsohn, John B. Rhinelander and Alexander Yereskovsky
- Who Needs the Nuclear Test Ban?, by Rebecca Johnson and Daryl Kimball
- BWC Update: A Turning Point to Nowhere?, by Jenni Rissanen
- CD Update: Special Coordinators Report No Agreement as Session Nears End by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Full Coverage of Bush-Putin talks in Genoa; Missile Defence Test; Putin P-5 initiative; UK Controversy over Missile Defence; UN Small Arms Conference documents; and US position on Testing.
Issue No. 58, June 2001
- Who's for a Nuclear Free-For-All?, by Rebecca Johnson
- People's Disarmament by Angie Zelter
- The Unlawfulness of the United Kingdom's Policy of Nuclear Deterrence: The Invalidity of the Scottish High Court's Decision in Zelter by Charles Moxley
- Four Decades of Missed Opportunities to Strengthen the BWC: 2001 Too? by Nicholas A. Sims
- CD Update: Modest Appointments by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Full Coverage of President Bush Visit to Europe; Carnegie Non-Proliferation Conference; Rumsfeld Testimony; Missile Defence Plans; South Asia; North Korea; Russia.
Issue No. 57, May 2001
- Preventing Missile Proliferation: Incentives and Security Guarantees by Viacheslav Abrosimov
- Preventing Missile Proliferation: A Shield for Europe? by Mark Smith
- UK Parliament Report: The Labour Government and Missile Defence by Lorna Richardson
- CWC Update: Implementation on a Low Flame by Alexander Kelle
- BWC Update: US Jeopardises BWC Protocol by Jenni Rissanen
- CD Update: CD Inches Forward: Reform Coordinators But No Negotiations by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: US Missile Defence Consultations; NATO Ministerial Meetings; US Space Policy Initiative; Indian Anti-Nuclear Movement; China and Taiwan; Russia; North Korea; Iraq.
Issue No. 56, April 2001
- Conventionally-Armed UK Trident? by Robert Green
- Multilateral Approaches to Preventing the Weaponisation of Space by Rebecca Johnson
- BWC Update: Hurdles Cleared, Obstacles Remaining: the Ad Hoc Group Prepares for the Final Challenge by Jenni Rissanen
Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Bush speech on Missile Defence; UN Disarmament Commission; Bush Administration on nuclear weapons and non-proliferation spending plans; Scottish High Court ruling on Trident; North Korea; Pakistan on CTBT; Iraq.
Issue No. 55, March 2001
Uncertainties in US Arms Control; Nuclear Cooperation in South Asia; Moving Beyond Missile Defence; Reviving the CD Agenda; CD and BWC Updates; statements on misile defence and nuclear threat reduction; US-North KOrea relations on hold; no concrete progress in UN-Iraq talks.
Issue No. 54, February 2001
Nuclear command and control in South Asia; NATO's nuclear review; WMD production and the environment; the future of the MTCR; CD Report; BWC Report; Russian and US ABM Plans; Congressional Testimony; Scientists' and Engineers' Anti-WMD Pledge; US-UK airstrikes in Iraq; Indian misisle test; Russia CW destruction plans.
Issue No. 53, December 2000/January 2001
US-Sino Arms Control; the Bush Presidency and the CTBT; Canada and Nuclear Disarmament; CD Update and Analysis; NATO Arms Control Report and Meetings; Bush Team Confirmation Hearings; Missile Defence Developments; Warnings on US and Russia Nuclear Stockpiles; UN-Iraq Policy Crisis.