Arms Control Today

With the Asian security environment in transition from the Cold War structure to whatever replaces it, prospects for arms control initiatives in the region and the attitudes and cooperative mechanisms to implement effective regimes are in a state of...

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin followed his September 26 speech to the UN General Assembly with a two-day state visit to Washington. Arms control and proliferation issues hovered in the background during both events, but the principal rationale of the...

Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin underscored that, with the end of the Cold War, major progress has been achieved with regard to strengthening global strategic stability and nuclear security. Both the United States and Russia are significantly reducing...

IN WHAT APPEARS to be a shift in U.S. policy, the Pentagon has said the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system could begin initial flight testing without raising compliance issues with the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, regardless of...

In a revealing exchange on North Korea with a retired senior U.S. diplomat at a recent Washington seminar, I argued that "carrots" would work better than "sticks" in resolving the nuclear controversy with Pyongyang, and concluded, "They can be bought...

THE LONG-TERM monitoring system designed to prevent Iraq from reconstituting its weapons of mass destruction programs is "provisionally operational," according to the UN Special Commission (SC). A 38-page report presented to the UN Security Council by...

U.S. AND NORTH Korean negotiators signed an agreement on October 21 that will, when implemented, eliminate North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons and bring North Korea into full compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). President...