This is the FINAL ISSUE of Disarmament Diplomacy, the Acronym Institute in-house journal which has now been discontinued.

Contents

• Needed: Good Leaders to Cut the Nuclear Posturing
  Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• Laying Substantive Groundwork for 2010: Report of the 2009 NPT PrepCom
  by Rebecca Johnson, including:
  • Recommendations to the Review Conference, 7 May 2009
  • Recommendations to the Review Conference, Rev 1, 13 May 2009
• Nuclear Testing and Proliferation -
  an Inextricable Connection
  by Thomas Graham, Jr. and David Hafemeister
   
• Unfinished Business: Lessons from the CTBT Negotiations
  by Rebecca Johnson
   
• A Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty:
  Some Observations on Scope and Verification
  by Paul Meyer
   
• Japan's Challenges and Dilemmas over Nuclear Disarmament
  by Masa Takubo
   
• Midpoint between Review Conferences: Next Steps to Strengthen the BWC
  by Nicholas A. Sims
   
• Towards a Negotiating Mandate for an Arms Trade Treaty
  by Michael Spies
   
• The Conference on Disarmament in 2009: Could do Better
  by Ray Acheson, including:
  • Decision on the Establishment of a Programme of Work for the 2009 session (CD/1864)
     
• Disarmament News Review
  • Obama and Medvedev agree Framework for Strategic Arms Talks, including:
    • US-Russia Joint Understanding on strategic offensive arms, 8 July 2009
  • NATO Launches Strategic Concept Review
  • UK publishes Roadmap to 2010, including:
    • Prime Minister's Statement on the Road to 2010 plan
  • Iran Nuclear Talks Reach Critical Stage
  • Second North Korean Nuclear Test underscores urgency of CTBT and Disarmament
  • CTBTO prepares for Zero-growth Budget
  • African Nuclear Weapon-free Zone Treaty Enters into Force
  • Yukiya Amano Appointed Next IAEA Director-General
  • No consensus on International Nuclear Fuel Bank
  • US - UAE Nuclear Cooperation
  • Indian ballistic missile submarine begins sea trials
  • OPCW Director-General reports on Chemical Weapons Destruction
  • Calls for Greater Progress on Implementation at Ottawa Convention Meetings

Executive Director and Editor: Rebecca Johnson
Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
Senior Associate: Carol Naughton
Research Associate: Michael Spies
Assistant Editor: Henrietta Wilson
Geneva Intern: Nafiseh Baeidi
Cover: Calverts Press
Cover photo, © REJ 2008. Sampling vegetation during on-site inspection exercise at Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, IFE08

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