Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era
This book offers a chronology and history of international efforts to control weapons of mass destruction through legal arrangements. It covers more than forty agreements, negotiated during the last eight decades, to control conventional nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in outer space, the Antarctic, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and on the ocean floor. The treaties are placed in context by individual commentaries from Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Damien J. LaVera.
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This book offers a chronology and history of international efforts to control weapons of mass destruction through legal arrangements. It covers more than forty agreements, negotiated during the last eight decades, to control conventional nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in outer space, the Antarctic, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and on the ocean floor. The treaties are placed in context by individual commentaries from Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Damien J. LaVera.
Understanding
the Nuclear Threat
Reducing the risk of nuclear use by terrorists and nation-states requires a broad set of complementary strategies targeted at reducing state reliance on nuclear weapons, stemming the demand for nuclear weapons and denying organizations or states access to the essential nuclear materials, technologies and know-how.
In Depth
Global Security Newswire
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State Department Reshuffles Arms Control Bureaus
Oct. 4, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has revamped its arms control bureau in a bid to improve the Obama administration's efforts against threats posed by conventional forces and weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, March 17).
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U.N. Disarmament Committee Addresses Proliferation
Nov. 5, 2004
UNITED NATIONS — Repairing the strains in multilateral disarmament —especially the stress being placed on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) by the vision of additional nations gaining nuclear weapons and the lack of disarmament by the five recognized nuclear weapon states — was the dominant theme running through the five-week session of the U.N. General Assembly’s Disarmament Committee (see GSN, Nov. 2).
