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Arms Control Today
Arms Control Today is a magazine published 10 times a year by the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. Founded in 1972, its subjects are international arms control issues, peace and international affairs. Its audience includes policy makers, educators and the general public.
Articles from Vol. 25, No. 9, November
A Look Behind the Arms Control Agenda at the U.S.-Russian and Sino-U.S. Summits
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Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.: Welcome to the Arms Control Association's press conference on President Bill Clinton's summit meetings with Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Monday at Hyde Park and with Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Tuesday in New York.These...
Brazil Gains MTCR Membership; Space Program Remains Intact
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MEMBERS OF the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the voluntary export control system adhered to by most of the world's top suppliers of advanced missile equipment and know-how, unanimously approved Brazil's membership during their 10th plenary...
Clinton, Yeltsin Accept NATO Plan to Resolve CFE Treaty 'Flank' Issue
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AT THEIR October 23 summit at Hyde Park, New York, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin endorsed a recent Western proposal on how to resolve the troublesome issue of limiting Russia's conventional forces in the "flank" zone of the...
Dole Pushes for Nationwide BMD 'Deployment' by 2003
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LESS THAN one month after the Senate adopted compromise language on national missile defenses (NMDs) in the fiscal year (FY) 1996 defense authorization bill (see ACT, October 1995), Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) wrote to the chairman of the...
First CCW Review Conference Ends in Discord over Landmines
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THE FIRST review conference of the 1980 treaty restricting the use of excessively injurious or indiscriminate weapons collapsed in discord October 11, ending two days early, after delegates failed to agree on ways to stem the worldwide threat of anti-personnel...
KEDO-North Korea Talks Continue on Nuclear Reactor Contract
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THOUGH STILL plagued by delays and tough negotiations, U.S.-North Korean efforts to implement the year-old agreement aimed at "rolling back" the North's nuclear weapons program remain on track. The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)--the...
NATO Unveils Expansion Plan; Russia Continues to Oppose Move
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AFTER NEARLY 10 months of preparation, on September 28 NATO unveiled its long-awaited expansion plan to the 26 members of the Partnership for Peace (PFP) assembled in Brussels. Entitled "Study on NATO Enlargement," the report calls for "gradual, deliberate...
Report Says Iraqi Weapons Programs Were More Advanced Than Admitted
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ROLF EKEUS, the chief UN arms inspector in Iraq, told the UN Security Council October 13 that Iraq's pre-Gulf War biological and chemical weapons programs were far more advanced than Baghdad had admitted, and that the Iraqi government has apparently...
Strengthening IAEA Safeguards in an Era of Nuclear Cooperation
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Since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed a remarkable series of events demonstrating that universal adherence to the principles of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament are no longer utopian dreams. South Africa disclosed that...
U.S., Britain and France Ready to Join South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Pact
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NEARLY 10 years after being invited to sign the three protocols to the Treaty of Rarotonga--the South Pacific nuclear-free zone (SPNFZ) treaty--the United States, Britain and France announced October 20 their intention to sign the agreements in the first...
U.S. Conventional Arms Transfers: Promoting Stability or Fueling Conflict?
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Ever since Richard Nixon outlined a new national security doctrine in 1969 that emphasized sending arms instead of troops to defend U.S. interests, executive branch policy-makers have taken it as an article of faith that U.S. arms transfers are a virtually...
U.S. Decontrols Computer Exports, Raising New Proliferation Concerns
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DESPITE THE Clinton administration's repeated claims that non-proliferation occupies a central role in national security policy-making, its October 6 move to decontrol U.S. computer exports would allow nearly any country to obtain advanced, high-speed...
U.S, Russian and Chinese Leaders Make Arms Control Gains in NY
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ALTHOUGH PRIMARILY concerned with discussions on Russian participation in a peacekeeping force for Bosnia, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin made modest progress on several key arms control issues during their meeting in Hyde...
Will START II Survive?
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The START II treaty, which would reduce the current Russian strategic nuclear arsenal by more than 50 percent, is in serious trouble as a consequence of inexcusable delays in Senate approval of ratification and congressional attacks on the ABM Treaty....
