...? 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...

...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 A...

...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...

... 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...

... lifelong images of Cold War has ended, its 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...

...Jim Wurst; John Burroughs Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 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...

... Indonesia. “Small arms” in the hands of marauding rebels—militias run by drug cartels and rapacious warlords who, particularly in Africa, often muster armies of child soldiers bearing Kalashnikov AK-47 automatic rifles—become what African officials say are the real “weapons of mass destruction” against...

... weapons in and of themselves that for international recognition and prestige. poses the main threat to stability in South The same dynamic applied to Pakistan, Asia, but rather the unmediated chain of where the entire drama was repeated, act command that spans the short and direct for act, two...

... nuclear weapons capacity. lationship with the United States and the Over the past year, a series of revelations security architecture of the Persian Gulf. An has shocked the Washington establishment imaginative U.S. policy can still influence and forced a revision of previous...

... 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...

....” 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...

... star general and a hero of the Allied assault develop between U.S. 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...

... policy priorities are morally and strategically irrelevant. Strategically irrelevant be­ cause that policy’s centerpiece, national missile defense, makes little sense against adver­ saries whose weapons are commercial jetliners, car bombs, and fishing skiffs loaded with ex­ plosives. The policy’s...

....” 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...

... like in the world 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...