Disarmament Diplomacy

Issue No. 89
Winter 2008

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Contents

• Nuclear Weapons Treaty: An Idea whose Time Has Come
  Editorial, by Rebecca Johnson

• Between Irrelevance and a New Era:
  Report on the 2008 UN First Committee
  by Michael Spies, including:

  • 2008 First Committee Resolutions: Summary and Explanations
    

• Bringing Biologists on Board
  Report from the 2008 Meeting of BWC Experts
  by Kathryn McLaughlin
  
• Reaching a Tipping Point:
  Strengthening BWC Confidence-Building Measures
  by Filippa Lentzos
  

• In the News
  • The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world
  • UK Debates on Nuclear Disarmament, including:
    • A world without nuclear weapons, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, www.guardian.co.uk, 8 December 2008.
    • Lifting the Nuclear Shadow: Creating the conditions for abolishing nuclear weapons, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4 February 2009.
    • Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity, The Rt Hon William Hague MP, 23 July 2008.
    • Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Foreign Affairs and Defence debate, House of Commons, 10 December 2008.
    • Security and Liberty in a Globalised World, Liberal Democrat Policy Paper, September 2008, excerpt.
    • Shared Destinies, IPPR Commission on National Security Interim Report, 27 November 2008, excerpts
    • UK does not need a Nuclear Deterrent, Letter from Field Marshal Lord Bramall, General Lord Ramsbotham and General Sir Hugh Beach to the Times, 16 January 2009.
  • President Sarkozy calls for Disarmament Debate
  • Toward a nuclear-free world: a German view
  • Contrasting US Perspectives, including
    • A New Beginning for Nuclear Diplomacy? Remarks of Senator Barack Obama, Chicago, 2 October 2008, excerpts
    • Nuclear Deterrence, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Speech at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.), 28 October 2008, excerpts.
    • Let's Commit to a Nuclear-Free World, Senator Dianne Feinstein, 3 January 2009

Executive Director and Editor: Rebecca Johnson
Deputy Director and Website Manager: Nicola Butler
Senior Associate: Carol Naughton
Assistant Editor: Henrietta Wilson
Cover design: Calverts Press
Cover photo, © REJ 2008, Partnership for disarmament, NGOs and governments in the CD Chamber.

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