The U.N.’s atomic agency says Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons.
An International Atomic Energy Agency report says Tehran has installed close to 700 high-tech centrifuges in...
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25 July 2012
Simple logic suggests that ammunition should be treated in the same manner as all other items covered by the prospective Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Ammunition is not a separate case; it’s what makes these weapons deadly in the first place. Without ammunition, a weapon can be a club, but its...
24 July 2012
Early in my career, I had the good fortune to work with Frank Blackaby, a former director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He rarely spoke much at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) board meetings at which we interacted, but his interventions were...
2 July 2012
This piece was orginally published by the Inter Press Service news agency (IPS) alongside a news article it published on the first day of the ATT negotiations at the UN in New York, 2 July 2012...
Natalie Goldring, a senior fellow with the Security...
11 May 2012
The 2012 PrepCom for the NPT finished a few hours early after adopting a procedural report and commenting on the “factual summary” that had been circulated the previous evening by the PrepCom Chair, Ambassador Peter Woolcott of...