...? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties (Apex Press, 2003). Arms Control Abandoned The Case of Biological Weapons Nicole Deller an dJoh n Burroughs Despite their genetic linkage and an over­ Test-Ban Treaty. More surprisingly, George...

...Michael A. Levi Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 ADVOCACY Michael A. Levi is a fellow for science and technology in the Foreign Policy Studies Program a t the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Weapons Scientists as Whistle Blowers M ichael...

...William D. Hartung At first glance, the international arms trade seems to be one of those problems that will always be with us, like death and taxes. But just as life can be prolonged and tax rates can be reduced, the traffic in weapons can be reined in, given the political will to do so, as I...

...Aziz Z. Huq While domestic security forces around the world equip themselves with military-grade weapons and surveillance technologies, those who research crime have reached a different consensus: To reduce lawbreaking, officers should listen to the accused, show basic courtesy, and exhibit...

... and allies from a nuclear attack. He has fol­ ising avenues for terrorists seeking a nuclear lowed through on this concern in a variety weapon than cutting a deal with Saddam of ways: abandoning the Anti-Ballistic Mis­ Hussein’s regime, which on present evi­ sile Treaty, boosting missile defense...

... ideological fevers ultimate horror. The second stage occurred have abated, and thus falsely reassured, so shortly afterward, within days or weeks, in have our fears of a nuclear holocaust. Yet the the form of grotesque symptoms of acute ra­ weapons remain, arms control is at a stand­ diation effects...

...Jim Wurst; John Burroughs Jim Wurst is the program director o f the Lawyers’ Committee on N uclear Policy. Joh n Burroughs is the organization’s executive director an d the author o f T he Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International...

... officials say are the real “weapons of mass destruction” against innocent civilians, costing as many as 300,000 lives a year around the world. Putting limits on the flow of weapons by pressuring governments to pledge and enforce better controls over the trading and shipment of conventional arms would go...

... to 2001. He is the author o/Europe Adrift and War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, and the coauthor of Assessing the Threats, CDI, 2002. The Threats America Faces John Newhouse Before September 11, the threats from contain potentially destructive amounts of weapons...

.... In­ ing public support for the government’s deed, it would not be too much of an exag­ decision to go nuclear, testified to the de­ geration to say that it is not the existence of gree to which, as a nation, India thirsted nuclear weapons in and of themselves that for international recognition...

... of crossing the nuclear bomb, but that under the cover of a civilian threshold. What the Islamic Republic de­ research program Iran was gathering suffi­ cides to do in this respect will depend to a cient knowledge and expertise to achieve a great extent on the nature of its evolving re­ nuclear weapons...

....” ated by elected decision makers. The collapse of the Soviet empire begin­ ning in 1989 made the issues of nuclear de­ O l d D eb a t es a n d N ew terrence seem less compelling, and the sub­ The Strategic Debate ject was largely set aside. Nuclear weapons In the 1950s...

.... and Soviet forces. The against Hitler, he certainly believed in main­ bomber gap proved a figment of the fevered taining a strong military. And although Eis­ imaginations of the weapons boosters, while enhower tried to hold the line on military the missile gap was real enough— though Eisenhower’s...

... removed U.S. tacti­ Yet the United States still maintains formi­ cal nuclear weapons from South Korea and dable armed forces in Korea linked to the from Pacific carriers in 1992, the United South in a tight command relationship. A States has not ruled out their réintroduc­ four-star U.S. general...

....” ident willing to employ that might, would The unfortunate Powell might as well unilaterally abandon its nuclear weapons have announced he was a pedophile. It took program and, as a precondition for talks the enraged neocons surrounding Bush less with the United States, accept a highly in­...

... of 2012. Constructive internationalism sees us all living on one planet, with our primary international interest making that planet safer—from global warming, nuclear weapons, infectious diseases, and the widening inequalities that weaken democracy and help feed support for ideologies of hatred...