Disarmament Diplomacy

Issue No. 69,
February - March 2003

Contents

• Editor's Introduction
• Editorial
  • Is Bush The Terrorists' Dream President?
    By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis
  • International vs. Domestic Nuclear Safeguards: The Need for Clarity in the Debate over Effectiveness
    By Roger G. Johnston and Morten Bremer Maerli
  • Good News for Non-Proliferation? The Changing Relationship Between Russia, NATO and the NPT
    By Sverre Lodgaard
  • Defending Against Biodefence: The Need for Limits
    By Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
• News Review
  • Iraq Inspections Fail to Resolve Crisis as Hourglass Runs Towards War
  • North Korea Turns Its Back on NPT in Spiralling Diplomatic Confrontation
  • US Unveils National Strategy to Combat WMD
  • US Outlines Plans for Missile Defence, Nuclear Weapons Programmes
  • UK Moves to Support US Missile Defence Programme
  • Key Senate Committee Endorses Moscow Treaty
  • US Energy Department Requests Record Non-Proliferation Funding
  • UN Discusses WMD Terrorism as Bush Releases CTR Funding
  • US Alleges Clandestine Nuclear Activity in Iran
  • Chilling Nuclear Rhetoric, Ongoing Nuclearisation in South Asia

Editor's Note

An expanded version of the News Review is available on our website at http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd69/nrindex.htm. In addition to supplementary coverage of developments surrounding the crises in Iraq and North Korea, the online Review features 7 extra items.

• Comments by Brazilian Minister Keep Nuclear Keep Nuclear Controversy Bubbling
• Russia Begins CW Stockpile Destruction
• Tenth Anniversary of CWC
• President Bush Announces Project Bioshield
• Fifth Anniversary of Mine Ban Treaty
• CCW Meeting Embraces Talks on Explosive Remnants of War
• Wassenaar Agreement Agrees New Measures on Terrorism, Small Arms

The Review, covering developments from November 15-February 1, is compiled by Dr. Sean Howard on the basis of newswire reports and other specified electronic sources. The Review is an account of news reports and does not seek to put forward or reflect the views or claims of Disarmament Diplomacy or the University of British Columbia.

Disarmament Diplomacy publishes articles to stimulate debate on topical disarmament and arms control issues. No individual article in the journal should be construed as representing the views of Disarmament Diplomacy or the University of British Columbia.

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