Disarmament Diplomacy

Issue No. 87
Spring 2008

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Contents

• Time to Outlaw the Use of Nuclear Weapons, Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• Is the NPT being Overtaken by Events? by Rebecca Johnson
  

• Stagnation and Redundancy: Report on the 2007 UN First Committee, by Michael Spies, including:

  • 2007 First Committee Resolutions, Summary and Explanations
    
    
• US and Russian Public Opinion on Arms Control and Space Security, Nancy Gallagher
  
  
• Space War, the Logical Next Mistake for US Exceptionalism, Mike Moore
  
  
• Bucharest Summit: US Missile Defence Bases Continue to Divide NATO, by Nicola Butler and Martin Butcher
  

• In the News
  • Toward a Nuclear-Free World, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn and others, Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008
  • A World Free of Nuclear Weapons George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007
  • Laying the Foundations for Multilateral Disarmament, Des Browne MP, UK Secretary of State for Defence, Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, February 5, 2008
  • Presentation of Le Terrible in Cherbourg, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, March 21, 2008 (excerpts)
  • Oslo Conference on Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Statement to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, March 4, 2008 (excerpts)
  • North Atlantic Council (NAC) Statement on The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, March 28, 2008
  • Bucharest Summit Declaration, April 3, 2008
  • US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration, April 6, 2008
  • Conference on Disarmament fails to adopt 2008 programme of work, tries new P-6 presidential draft decision, March 13, 2008

Executive Director and Editor: Rebecca Johnson
Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
Assistant Editor: Henrietta Wilson
European and NATO Analyst: Martin Butcher
Cover design: Calverts Press
Cover photo, © REJ 2006. Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, US/NSA base for eavesdropping and BMD.

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