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2008

• Issue No.88, Summer 2008

• Issue No.87, Spring 2008

Issue No.88, Summer 2008

• 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

Issue No.87, Spring 2008

• 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

Issue No.86, Autumn 2007

• Intelligence on Nuclear Weapons
  Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• New Impetus, Old Excuses - Report on the Conference on Disarmament in 2007, by Michael Hamel-Green

• Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, by Jenny Nielsen

• Rethinking Security Interests for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East, by Rebecca Johnson

• Building Blocks for a WMD Disarmament Regime in the Middle East, by Merav Datan
  

• In the News
  • Iran masters Uranium Enrichment as US Intelligence Report Says Nuclear Weapons Programme Halted in 2003, including:
    • US National Intelligence Estimate
    • IAEA Director-General's Report to the Board of Governors
    • Chronology of Events
      
      
  • North Korea: Good Progress, but Obstacles Remain, including:
    • Six Party Talks (October 3 Agreement): Second-Phase Actions for the Implementation of the September 2005 Joint Statement
      
      
  • UK Foreign Policy emphasizes Disarmament while MoD presses ahead with Renewing Trident, including:
    • Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Margaret Beckett, Speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Conference, Washington DC, June 25, 2007
    • New Diplomacy: Challenges for Foreign Policy, speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband
    • Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet
    • Europe 2030: Model Power not Superpower, Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, College of Europe Speech, Bruges
    • Ministry of Defence Accounts (Trident excerpts)
    • Ballistic Missile Defence, Written Statement by the Secretary of State for Defence Des Browne MP
      
      
  • Scotland holds Summit on Trident and seeks NPT Observer Status, including:
    • Scottish Government Summit on Trident, October 22, 2007
    • Letter from Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond to States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, October 15, 2007

Issue No. 85, Summer 2007

• Scotland votes to become Nuclear Free
  Editorial by Rebecca Johnson
  
  
• Back from the Brink?
  The 2007 NPT PrepCom Report
  by Rebecca Johnson
  A detailed analysis of the conduct, dynamics, and substantive debates at the 2007 NPT PrepCom.
  See also: Chair's Summary, reproduced in full
  
  
• Weapons of Terror: The Report of the WMD Commission One Year On
  by Hans Blix
  The Chair of the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission reflects on the security environment and key recommendations one year after the Report was published.
  
  
• The WMD Commission One Year Later: Impact and Assessment
  by John Burroughs
  A critique of the WMDC Report from a US perspective, analysing what it got right and highlighting where it should have gone further.
  
  See also: Recommendations of the WMD Commission.
  
  
• The Road from Oslo:
  Emerging International Efforts on Cluster Munitions
  by John Borrie
  A detailed analysis of recent progress in raising awareness of the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions and getting multilateral negotiations underway on a prohibition treaty.
  
  
• Representation from the Trenches: Ongoing Monitoring for Implementing the BWC
  by Filippa Lentzos
  Discusses the roles of statutory and voluntary/self-governance mechanisms for life science oversight and provides detailed examples of different oversight mechanisms and informal monitoring systems.
  
  
• In the News
  • CTBT Entry into Force Conference Agrees on practical Measures and Calls for Hold-outs to Sign and Ratify
  • Trident Opposition Continues to Grow
  • Conference on Disarmament ends another year with no work programme

Issue No. 84, Spring 2007

• Signs of the Times: NPT not WMD
  Editorial by Rebecca Johnson
  
  
• Looking Towards 2010: What does the Nonproliferation Regime need?
  by Rebecca Johnson
  Consideration of the political, procedural and substantive challenges as NPT parties meet in Vienna for the first Preparatory Committee meeting of the 2010 review cycle.
  
  
• The 2006 BWC Review Conference
  The President’s Reflections
  by Masood Khan
  The President of the Sixth Biological and Toxin Weapons Review Conference reflects on the factors that contributed to a significant success, with lessons for future multilateral diplomacy.
  
  
• Rising Out of the Doldrums: Report on the BWC Review Conference
  by Richard Guthrie
  From the author of daily reports during the BWC conference, a detailed assessment of the conduct and outcome, with annexes on the proposed (but unadopted) Action Plans and civil society contributions.
  
  
• A Counter-Bioterrorism Strategy for the new UN Secretary-General
  by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
  Argues for new multilateral approaches for dealing with bioterrorism, including reorganisation and resourcing of the UN Secretary-General's investigational capability to strengthen BWC compliance.
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Bioterrorism: Biosecurity Policies in the US and Germany
  by Jonathan B. Tucker
  A detailed comparison of US and German approaches for addressing biosecurity in the age of international terrorism, drawing out the strengths and weaknesses.
  
  
• 2006 Review Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Study in Frustration
  by Natalie Goldring
  Report on the July 2006 small arms conference, with analysis of the reasons for its failure and consideration of further multilateral initiatives to curb the arms trade.
  
  
• NATO, Riga and Beyond
  by Martin Butcher
  Analyses the challenges facing NATO at the Riga Summit and argues that the Alliance needs to develop a more appropriate - and non-nuclear - Strategic Concept if it is to have relevance in the transformed security environment.
  
  
• In the News
  • Blair wins Trident vote after telling UK Parliament that the NPT gives Britain the Right to have nuclear weapons
  • North Korea Nuclear Agreement: Can it Work?
  • Iran’s Nuclear Programme in a Dangerous Poker Game
  • CD edges closer to a Work Programme

Issue No. 83, Winter 2006

• The Realist Message: Abolish Nuclear Weapons
  editorial by Rebecca Johnson
  
  
• The UK White Paper on Renewing Trident: the wrong decision at the wrong time
  by Rebecca Johnson
  Providing a critical assessment of the Trident renewal justifications by Tony Blair's government, Acronym Institute's director argues for Britain to play a more visionary and coherent role to prevent security threats that nuclear weapons will not prove capable of deterring.
  See also:
  • Tony Blair introduces White Paper, statement to Parliament December 4, 2006
  • Faslane 365: Don't replace Trident, scrap it!
  
  
• Time for a Fissban - or Farewell?
  by Jenni Rissanen
  The IAEA's former representative in Geneva provides an in-depth analysis of past efforts and current prospects for negotiating a fissile material production ban in the Conference on Disarmament. Includes verbatim texts of the US no-verification mandate, draft and explanation tabled in May 2006.
  See also:
  • US Draft Fissban Mandate, Text and Explanation
  
  
• Cooperation and Cautious Optimism: Report on the 2006 UN First Committee
  by Jennifer Nordstrom
  A comprehensive report on the UN's annual disarmament and security deliberations, with a detailed summary of all resolutions and votes in the 61st First Committee and General Assembly.
  
  
• In the News
  • UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Calls for Progress on Nuclear disarmament and Non-proliferation
  • North Korea's Nuclear Test: Assessing the Fallout
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1718 (2006) on Non-proliferation

Issue No. 82, Spring 2006

• Integrated Disarmament: a Prerequisite for Sustainable Nonproliferation
  by Rebecca Johnson
  
• Towards the BWC Review Conference:
  Diplomacy Still in the Doldrums
  by Nicholas A. Sims
  
• Practical Steps to Accelerate BWC Universality
  by Daniel Feakes
  
• Small Arms and Light Weapons: Making the UN Programme of Action work
  by Rebecca Peters
  
• Cooperation and Defection in the Conference on Disarmament
  by John Borrie
  
• Implementing Resolution 1540: What the National Reports Indicate
  by Lars Olberg
  
• Industry and Nonproliferation: Don't Neglect the First Line of Defence
  by Matthew C. Fuhrmann
  
• Two Treaties to Contain Missile Proliferation
  by Thomas Graham and Dinshaw Mistry
  
• North Korean Denuclearisation: A Chinese View of the Way Forward
  by Hui Zhang
  
• In the News
  • Iran: recent developments and documents
  • Chirac reasserts French nuclear weapons policy
  • The misbegotten US-India nuclear deal

Issue No. 81, Winter 2005

• Editorial: New Nuclear Weapons? Perish the Thought!
  by Rebecca Johnson
• A President's Assessment of the 2005 NPT Review Conference
  by Sergio de Queiroz Duarte
  
• Enhanced Participation and Politicking: Report on the 2005 UN First Committee
  by Rebecca Johnson, including: 2005 First Committee Resolutions: Summary and Explanations
• Keeping Test Ban Hopes Alive: The 2005 CTBT Entry-into-force Conference
  by Daryl Kimball, including the Final Declaration of the Conference and the NGO Statement
  
• The Korean Nuclear Divide: View from the South
  by Lew Kwang-Chul, including Joint Statement on North Korea's nuclear programme
  
• Safeguarding Space: Building Cooperative Norms to Dampen Negative Trends
  by Theresa Hitchens
  
• Books in Review
  • An International Law Perspective on Common Security in Outer Space, by Detlev Wolter
• In the News
  • UK Trident Replacement a 'Material Breach' of the NPT, including:
    • The Future of UK Nuclear Weapons, by Lord Garden
    • Does Britain need nuclear missiles? No. Scrap them, by Michael Portillo
    • A new nuclear weapon is irrelevant to the real issues, by Clare Short
    • The Blairite love affair with the bomb will cost Britain dear

Issue No. 80, Autumn 2005

• Editorial: Three Cities
  by Rebecca Johnson
• Politics and Protection: Why the 2005 NPT Review Conference Failed
  by Rebecca Johnson
  
• Reviving The Disarmament Regimes: Recommendations of the High Level Panel and Secretary-General's Advisory Board
  by Harald Müller
  
• The Relevance of Gender for Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction
  by Carol Cohn with Felicity Hill and Sara Ruddick
  
• National Security and Neo-Arms Control in the Bush Administration
  by Jeffrey A. Larsen
  
• Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: UN Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Intervention
  by Hugh Beach
  
• In the News
  • Iran's Nuclear Programme: EU-3 Snubbed as Iran begins Uranium Conversion at Isfahan
  • North Korea's Nuclear Programme: Continuing obstacles in Six Party Talks
  • Hiroshima Peace Declaration
  • Nagasaki Peace Declaration
  • Robin Cook MP on Trident: Worse than Irrelevant

Issue No. 79, April/May 2005

• The 2005 NPT Conference in Crisis: Risks and Opportunities
  by Rebecca Johnson
• 2004 UN First Committee:
  Better Organised, with Deep Divisions
  by Rebecca Johnson
  
• The Right to Withdraw from the NPT:
  Article X is Not Unconditional
  by George Bunn and John Rhinelander
  
• Slow Road to Nowhere:
  North Korea and the Six Party Nuclear Talks
  by Nicola Butler
  
• Security Council Resolution 1540: WMD and Non-state Trafficking
  by Merav Datan
• The Fissban: Time for Renewed Commitment or a New Approach?
  by Jean du Preez
• Endpiece: Is anyone thinking what we're thinking?
  A Light Look at the 2005 UK Election
  by Nicola Butler and Rebecca Johnson
  

Issue No. 78, July/August 2004

• Editorial: Vote if you Can: Otherwise, Pray
  by Rebecca Johnson
• Two Terrifying Reports: The US Senate and the 9/11 Commission on Intelligence Failures Before September 11 and the Iraq War
  by Joseph Cirincione
  
• Lord Butler's Report on UK Intelligence
  by Stephen Pullinger
  
• Kerry or Bush:
  What Future for US Security Policy?
  by John Isaacs
  
• Strengthening the BWC:
  A Way Forward
  by Jonathan B. Tucker
• The Challenge of Biological Weapons:
  Proposals for Greater EU Effectiveness
  by Ulla Jasper
• The EU and the NPT: Testing the New European Nonproliferation Strategy
  by Clara Portela
  
• Books in View: The Sovereignty Revolution by Alan Cranston
  Introduced by Kim Cranston
• In The News
  • Deep Divisions over Iraq at NATO's Istanbul Summit, including text of:
    - The Istanbul Declaration: Our security in a new era
    - Statement on Iraq
  • Renewal of US-UK Nuclear Cooperation 'in Breach of NPT' say Eminent Lawyers, including:
    - Mutual Defence Agreement and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Joint Advice from Rabinder Singh QC and Professor Christine Chinkin, Matrix Chambers
  • IAEA Censure as Iran Moves Closer to the Brink, including:
    - IAEA Resolution on Iran, June 2004
  • One step Forward, Two steps Back: Six Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Programme, including:
    - Chair's Statement of the Third Round of the Six-Party Talks, June 26, 2004
  • News Shorts, including:
    - US proposes "no-verification" Fissban to be negotiated at the Conference on Disarmament
    - South Korea Discloses Secret Nuclear Experiments to the IAEA
    - India tests Agni II missile

Issue No. 77, May/June 2004

• Editorial: Banking on Abused Loyalties
  by Rebecca Johnson
• Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Europe's Redundant WMD
  by Hugh Beach
  
• NATO's Istanbul Challenge: Transformation or Irrelevance?
  by Nicola Butler
  
• Incorporating Environmental Considerations into Arms Control
  by Alexander H. Joffe
  
• Report on the 2004 NPT PrepCom
  by Rebecca Johnson, including Chair's Summary from the PrepCom
  
• A Model Code of Conduct for Space Assurance
  by Michael Krepon and Michael Heller
  
• Libya, Iraq and Iran: Updates and Analyses, by Stephen Pullinger and Dany Shoham
  • Libya: Gadafy's Gamble appears to pay off
  • Libya: the First Real Case of Deproliferation in the Middle East?
  • Iraq's Elusive WMD
  • Iran: the Saga Continues
    including IAEA Director General's Report on Iran, June 1, 2004
• In The News
  • US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1540 on Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1546 on Iraq
  • Little Progress as North Korea Working Group Meets

Issue No. 76, March/April 2004

• Editorial: The Nuclear Conundrum: Security or Terror by Rebecca Johnson
• The NPT in 2004: Testing the Limits
  by Rebecca Johnson
  
• The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Challenge for Nonproliferation
  by Lawrence Scheinman
  
• WMD in the Middle East: A Diminishing Currency
  by Avner Cohen and Thomas Graham Jr.
  
• Preserving UNMOVIC: The Institutional Possibilities
  by Trevor Findlay
  
• Dr. Khan's Nuclear WalMart
  by Christopher Clary
  
• Transparency and the Coming Democracy
  by Ann Florini
  
• Civil Society: the "Other Superpower"
  by David Cortright
  
• In The News (or Should Be)
  • "Differences, difficulties and contradictions" at North Korea nuclear talks
  • Conference on Disarmament Adopts Programme of Talk
  • Why is Britain's Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure Being Upgraded?
  • US-UK Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Up for Renewal
  • Tony Blair on Terrorism and 'International Community'

Issue No. 75, January/February 2004

• Editorial: Transparency and Exposure
• From Arms Control to Cooperative Threat Reduction
  by Michael Krepon
  
• Enforcing WMD Treaties: Consolidating a UN Role
  by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
  
• Building on the Experience: Lessons from UNSCOM and UNMOVIC
  by Terence Taylor
  
• NATO'S Future: To the Greater Middle East and Beyond?
  by Nicola Butler
  
• The IAEA's Strengthened Safeguards System Gaining Ground
  by Jan Lodding
  
• WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications
  by Alexis Orton and Joseph Cirincione
  
• In the News
  • UK White Papers on Defence and Foreign Policy
  • Iran, Libya, and Pakistan's Nuclear Supermarket
  • North Korea: Six Party Nuclear Talks Delayed
  • Hans Blix Launches International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Lord Hutton Reports on the Death of Dr David Kelly
  • President Bush and Mohamed ElBaradei on WMD Proliferation

Issue No. 74, December 2003

• Editorial It's about Security, Stupid!
• Reports & Analysis "Troubled and Troubling Times":
  The 2003 UN First Committee Considers Disarmament and Reform
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Reports & Analysis President Bush's War on Terror
  By Paul Rogers
• Reports & Analysis The European Union: Seeking Common Ground for Tackling Weapons of Mass Destruction
  By Stephen Pullinger and Gerrard Quille
• In the News
  • North Korea's Nuclear Brinkmanship
  • Addressing Iran's Nuclear Programme: the US, IAEA, and European Foreign Ministers
  • UK Debates Iraq War, WMD and Defence Policy
  • BWC Meeting Adopts Minimal Report
  • Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Meeting, Paris, September 3-4
  • Mayors for Peace Launch New Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons
  • Geneva Accord, December 1, 2003

Issue No. 73, October - November 2003

• Editorial Treaties Are Not Enough: A Departing Editor's Reflections
• Opinion & Analysis A Receding Disarmament Horizon? Lessons From an Era of Retreat and Defeat
  By Sean Howard
• Opinion & Analysis Beyond Article XIV: Strategies To Save The CTBT
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis A Sickening Episode: Nuclear Looting in Iraq and the Global Threat From Radiological Weapons
  By Andy Oppenheimer
• Opinion & Analysis Overcoming Deadlock in the CD
  By Rakesh Sood
• News Analysis
  • North Korea Nuclear Talks End In Stalemate
  • IAEA Adopts Critical Resolution in Deepening Crisis over Iran's Nuclear Programme
    Appendix: Resolution on Iran, IAEA Board of Governors, September 12
  • The Hutton Inquiry: was Iraq a Serious and Current Threat?
  • US Policy: WMD, Good and Bad
  • Substance Hidden Under A Mountain Of Paper: The BWC Experts' Meeting In 2003

Issue No. 72, August - September 2003

• Opinion & Analysis The First Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms: Building Momentum for Global Action
  By Peter Batchelor
• Opinion & Analysis What Price British Influence?
  Tony Blair And The Decision to Back Missile Defence
  By Nicola Butler
• Opinion & Analysis Managing Missiles: Blind Spot Or Blind Alley?
  By W. Pal S. Sidhu and Christophe Carle
• Opinion & Analysis Preparing the Ground for Modest Steps: A Progress Report on the Hague Code of Conduct
  By Mark Smith
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of Iraq WMD search, drift in the North Korea nuclear crisis, IAEA and Iran, hesitant rapprochement in South Asia, nuclear developments in US Congress and 25th anniversary of UN Special Session on Disarmament.

• See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, including Moscow Treaty, missile defence developments, and UN talks on explosive remnants of war, May 1 - July 10, 2003.

Issue No. 71, June - July 2003

• Editorial: Beware Intelligence Intimidation In Defence Debates
  By Rebecca Johnson
• NPT Report Rogues and Rhetoric: The 2003 NPT PrepCom Slides Backwards
  By Rebecca Johnson
• CWC Report The CWC After Its First Review Conference : Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
  By Alexander Kelle
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of the search for weapons in Iraq, North Korea nuclear crisis, US diplomatic pressure on Iran & Syria, diplomatic thaw in South Asia, and Moscow Treaty on hold.

• See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, including missile defence & Russia CW destruction, April 1 - May 10, 2003.

Issue No. 70, April - May 2003

• Editorial: Resisting the Poisoned Chalice: The UN and the Aftermath of War
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: Incentives, Obligations And Enforcement: Does the NPT Meet its States Parties' Needs?
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: Biological Disarmament Diplomacy in The Doldrums: Reflections After The BWC Fifth Review Conference
  By Nicholas A. Sims
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including extensive coverage of the Iraq conflict, North Korea NPT crisis, US insists Iran poses growing nuclear threat, US nuclear and missile defence developments, Duma delays SORT ratification.

• See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, February 1 - April 1, 2003.

Issue No. 69, February - March 2003

• 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
• Opinion & Analysis: Good News for Non-Proliferation? The Changing Relationship Between Russia, NATO and the NPT
  By Sverre Lodgaard
• Opinion & Analysis: Defending Against Biodefence: The Need for Limits
  By Barbara Hatch Rosenberg
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including hourglass runs towards war with Iraq, North Korea turns its back on the NPT, US WMD strategy, US missile defence and nuclear weapons programmes, UK supports missile defence, US nuclear allegations against Iran, South Asian nuclearisation continues, and further non-proliferation news.

• See also: News Review Special Edition, for extensive coverage of International Developments, November 15 2002 - February 1, 2003.

Issue No. 68, December 2002 - January 2003

• Opinion & Analysis: Stuck on the Launch Pad? The Ballistic Missile Code of Conduct Opens for Business
  By Mark Smith
• Opinion & Analysis: Anti-Satellite Capabilities of Planned US Missile Defence Systems
  By David Wright and Laura Grego
• BWC Report: Waiting for Godot or Saving The Show? The BWC Review Conference Reaches Modest Agreement
  By Marie Isabelle Chevrier
• First Committee Report: Anxiety, Hope and Cynicism: The 2002 UN First Committee
  By Fiona Simpson
• Appendix: Summary of Resolutions
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Last Chance for Peace in Iraq, North Korea crisis escalates, Carter, Butler condemn double standards, Russia stresses missile defence cooperation, US enhances stockpile stewardship, troop withdrawals in South Asia, Moscow Siege - use of gas.

• See also: News Review Special Edition, for further coverage of International Developments, October 1 - November 15, 2002.

Issue No. 67, October - November 2002

• Editorial: A Farewell to Acronym but not to Disarmament
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: From the Lab to the Battlefield? Nanotechnology and Fourth-Generation Nuclear Weapons
  By André Gsponer
• Opinion & Analysis: US Space Policy: Time to Stop and Think
  By Theresa Hitchens
• CWC Report: Emerging From a Trial by Fire?
  By Fiona Tregonning
• CD Report: CD Closes 2002 Still Deadlocked
  By Rebecca Johnson
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Iraq crisis, new US security strategy, Moscow Treaty, US Tritium plans, Cuba to join NPT, CTBT anniversary, North Korea, Tension in South Asia, and international non-proliferation and disarmament news.

Issue No. 66, September 2002

• Editorial: One Year After 9/11: What Have We Learned?
  By Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: Drawing the Line: the Path to Controlling Weapons in Space
  By Philip E. Coyle and John B. Rhinelander
• Opinion & Analysis: Preventing Terrorist Access to Dangerous Pathogens: The Need for International Biosecurity Standards
  By Jonathan B. Tucker
• Opinion & Analysis: Deterrence or a Deadly Game? Nuclear Propaganda and Reality in South Asia
  By Achin Vanaik
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries, India-Pakistan crisis, US-Russia relations, US nuclear posture, Russia-China draft space treaty, Iraq inspections crisis, and international non-proliferation news.

Issue No. 65, July - August 2002

• Editorial: Nuclear Brinkmanship Is Not Deterrence
  by Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: Nanotechnology and Mass Destruction: The Need for an Inner Space Treaty
  by Sean Howard
• Opinion & Analysis: The Emerging European Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Agenda on Chemical and Biological Weapons
  by Daniel Feakes
• Opinion & Analysis: Preventing Chemical Warfare and Terrorism: The CWC and the Middle East
  by Pamela Mills
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including India and Pakistan go to the brink, US-Russia summit, new NATO-Russia relationship, US shakes off ABM Treaty, continuing discussion of new nuclear weapons/test readiness, Japan nuclear controversy, and latest developments on North Korea, Iraq, and BWC.

Issue No. 64, May - June 2002

• Editorial: Democracy and Security,
  by Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: The US Nuclear Posture Review:
  Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
  by Jack Mendelsohn
• NPT Report: The 2002 PrepCom: Papering over the Cracks?
  by Rebecca Johnson
• CD Update: Conference Remains Deadlocked after First Part of 2002 Session
  by Rebecca Johnson
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including OPCW Director-General ousted, US-Russia missile defence and nuclear developments, Cooperative Threat Reduction, IAEA Nuclear Terrorism plan, US nuclear waste disposal, and all the latest arms control developments concerning North Korea, Russia, South Asia, Iran and Iraq.

Issue No. 63, March - April 2002

• Politics v. Procedures: Implementing the NPT, by Rebecca Johnson
• International Law and the Military Uses of Space, by Ambassador Thomas Graham
• Fostering Nuclear Transparency in South Asia through Cooperative Remote Sensing Projects, by Gaurav Rajen
• Rules for the Road?
  The International Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation, by Mark Smith
• News Review, compiled by Sean Howard, including US-Russia talks, US nuclear spending plans, missile defence developments, US nuclear posture controversy, Response to Axis of Evil speech, and the latest developments in arms control and disarmament.

Issue No. 62, January - February 2002

• Editorial: The Law of the Jungle, by Rebecca Johnson
• Opinion & Analysis: Alternative Approaches to Arms Control in a Changing World, by Kerry M. Kartchner and George R. Pitman
• Opinion & Analysis: The First CWC Review Conference: Challenges and Opportunities, by Alexander Kelle
• BWC Report: Left in Limbo: Review Conference Suspended On Edge of Collapse, by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review, including: South Asia crisis; US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty; speculation on future US nuclear testing; low yield nuclear weapons; latest on Iraq and North Korea, and latest arms control developments.

Issue No. 61, October - November 2001

• Editorial: Summits that Cheat Security, by Rebecca Johnson
• CTBT Report: Boycotts and Blandishments: Making the CTBT Visible, by Rebecca Johnson
• Business as Usual in a Changed World: The 2001 UN First Committee by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Bush-Putin summit; Bush Statement on BWC; Concern over Pakistan Nuclear Weapons; Russia and Iran; US-Korea; UN-Iraq relations stalled; No Breakthrough in US-China discussions.

Issue No. 60, September 2001

• Editorial: To Defeat Terrorism, by Rebecca Johnson
• The 2001 UN Conference on Small Arms: A First Step? by Peter Batchelor
• Multinational Security Cooperation and Military Doctrines in the OSCE Area by Harald Müller
• The Case for a BWC Committee of Oversight: Draft Mandate and Commentary by Nicholas A Sims
• Monitoring Results: Landmine Monitor Report 2001 by Mary Wareham and Stephen D. Goose
• CD Update: Annual Session Ends In Shadow of Attacks in US by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: UN Secretary-General's Annual Report; Ottawa Convention Meeting; IAEA General Conference; Interview with Russian President; Speech by Russian Foreign Minister; US Quadrennial Defense Review; US-Indian Nuclear Policy; MTCR Plenary Meeting; Missile Defence Overshadowed by Attack on US; US lifts South Asia sanctions; DoD Reported to Recommend Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons; US Biological Warfare Research.

Issue No. 59, July - August 2001

• Editorial: Is Disarmament Being Left To Rust?
• Squaring The Circle: Can NMD And Nuclear Arms Control Be Reconciled? by Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jack Mendelsohn, John B. Rhinelander and Alexander Yereskovsky
• Who Needs the Nuclear Test Ban?, by Rebecca Johnson and Daryl Kimball
• BWC Update: A Turning Point to Nowhere?, by Jenni Rissanen
• CD Update: Special Coordinators Report No Agreement as Session Nears End by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Full Coverage of Bush-Putin talks in Genoa; Missile Defence Test; Putin P-5 initiative; UK Controversy over Missile Defence; UN Small Arms Conference documents; and US position on Testing.

Issue No. 58, June 2001

• Who's for a Nuclear Free-For-All?, by Rebecca Johnson
• People's Disarmament by Angie Zelter
• The Unlawfulness of the United Kingdom's Policy of Nuclear Deterrence: The Invalidity of the Scottish High Court's Decision in Zelter by Charles Moxley
• Four Decades of Missed Opportunities to Strengthen the BWC: 2001 Too? by Nicholas A. Sims
• CD Update: Modest Appointments by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Full Coverage of President Bush Visit to Europe; Carnegie Non-Proliferation Conference; Rumsfeld Testimony; Missile Defence Plans; South Asia; North Korea; Russia.

Issue No. 57, May 2001

• Preventing Missile Proliferation: Incentives and Security Guarantees by Viacheslav Abrosimov
• Preventing Missile Proliferation: A Shield for Europe? by Mark Smith
• UK Parliament Report: The Labour Government and Missile Defence by Lorna Richardson
• CWC Update: Implementation on a Low Flame by Alexander Kelle
• BWC Update: US Jeopardises BWC Protocol by Jenni Rissanen
• CD Update: CD Inches Forward: Reform Coordinators But No Negotiations by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: US Missile Defence Consultations; NATO Ministerial Meetings; US Space Policy Initiative; Indian Anti-Nuclear Movement; China and Taiwan; Russia; North Korea; Iraq.

Issue No. 56, April 2001

• Conventionally-Armed UK Trident? by Robert Green
• Multilateral Approaches to Preventing the Weaponisation of Space by Rebecca Johnson
• BWC Update: Hurdles Cleared, Obstacles Remaining: the Ad Hoc Group Prepares for the Final Challenge by Jenni Rissanen

Also, News Review and Documents and Sources, including: Bush speech on Missile Defence; UN Disarmament Commission; Bush Administration on nuclear weapons and non-proliferation spending plans; Scottish High Court ruling on Trident; North Korea; Pakistan on CTBT; Iraq.

Issue No. 55, March 2001

Uncertainties in US Arms Control; Nuclear Cooperation in South Asia; Moving Beyond Missile Defence; Reviving the CD Agenda; CD and BWC Updates; statements on misile defence and nuclear threat reduction; US-North KOrea relations on hold; no concrete progress in UN-Iraq talks.

Issue No. 54, February 2001

Nuclear command and control in South Asia; NATO's nuclear review; WMD production and the environment; the future of the MTCR; CD Report; BWC Report; Russian and US ABM Plans; Congressional Testimony; Scientists' and Engineers' Anti-WMD Pledge; US-UK airstrikes in Iraq; Indian misisle test; Russia CW destruction plans.

Issue No. 53, December 2000/January 2001

US-Sino Arms Control; the Bush Presidency and the CTBT; Canada and Nuclear Disarmament; CD Update and Analysis; NATO Arms Control Report and Meetings; Bush Team Confirmation Hearings; Missile Defence Developments; Warnings on US and Russia Nuclear Stockpiles; UN-Iraq Policy Crisis.

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