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A collection of analytic, source material, and official documents related to Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation listed in reverse chronological order.

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The Risks of Deterrence: From Superpowers to Rogue Leaders

Nuclear issues now compete more strongly for the attention of policy makers and the media that often shapes their interest. Converts are being won on many fronts to the propositions that these issues matter, that nuclear arsenals can and should be sharply reduced, that high alert postures are a dangerous anachronism, that first use policies are an affront to democratic values, and that proliferation of nuclear weapons is a clear and present danger. Speech by General Lee Butler at the National Press Club,, Washington, D.C., February 2, 1998

 

U.N. Moves to Curb Nuclear Terrorism

The United Nations is getting ready to contain a new post-Cold War military threat: nuclear terrorism. A U.N. Adhoc Committee, comprising all 185 member states, will begin a two-week session Feb. 16 to formulate a new U.N. convention specifically aimed at nuclear terrorists. By Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service, February 1, 1998

 

The Proliferation Primer

Discusses proliferation by the major suppliers of weapons of mass destruction technology, missile delivery systems, and key enabling tech-nologies by examining cases in the public record. It includes evidence that implicates Russia, China, and North Korea, and it questions the current responses of the Clinton Administration to deal with the realities of proliferation and to assure the protection of America's interests. From the Majority Report of the United States Senate Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services Committee on Governmental Affairs, January 1998

 

Russia's National Security Concept

"Russia is not attempting to maintain quantitative parity with leading world states in arms and armed forces." (5) On the other hand, Russia "must possess nuclear forces capable of deterrence, causing unacceptable damage to any aggressor (with secondary and tertiary consequences)." What is in parenthesis, according to Ms. Kalinina, refers to radiation fallout that would affect civilians. From the Perspective Volume VIII, Number 3, by Richard F. Staar, January - February 1998

 

Atomic Diplomacy at the Clinton-Jiang Summit, by Jennifer Weeks

China has been a nuclear weapon state since 1964, but is a latecomer to arms control. It rejected the concept of nonproliferation for several decades, and supplied materials, technology, and expertise to clandestine nuclear weapons programs in countries including Pakistan, Argentina, and South Africa. Since the early 1980s, China has gradually shifted from international isolation to engagement, and has softened its criticisms of arms control. Recently, it has signed or endorsed a number of international treaties and agreements, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Missile Technology Control Regime, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. From the Global Reporting Network Issue Brief No. 22, October 1997

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