Disarmament Diplomacy

Issue No. 88
Summer 2008

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Contents

• Economic Insecurity: Threat or Opportunity? Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• The 2008 NPT PrepCom: Good Meeting, but was it Relevant? by Rebecca Johnson, including:

  • Chair's Working Paper
  • Statement by the Delegations of China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America
    
    
• What Price Nuclear Blackmail? General Sir Hugh Beach
  
  
• Renewing Trident: Can the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment Cope? Henrietta Wilson
  
  
• How the Cluster Munition Ban Was Won: Oslo Treaty Negotiations conclude in Dublin, John Borrie
  

• In the News
  • Deal or No Deal: Can the North Korea Nuclear Agreement be Salvaged?, including Press Communiqué of the Heads of Delegation Meeting of The Sixth Round of the Six-Party Talks, Beijing, 12 July 2008
  • The Conference on Disarmament in 2008: Still in Denial
  • Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd initiates New International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
  • Concerns as US-India Nuclear Deal Goes Through, including Statement by US President George W. Bush on the Occasion of Signing H.R. 7081

Executive Director and Editor: Rebecca Johnson
Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
Assistant Editor: Henrietta Wilson
Senior Associate: Carol Naughton
European and NATO Analyst: Martin Butcher
Cover design: Calverts Press
Cover photo, © REJ 2008.

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