While that Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation has receded, this edition of Foreign Policy Agenda examines the elements in today's nuclear equation. Instead of superpowers facing off, we encounter rogue states, stateless terrorist organizations bent on acquiring the means of mass murder, and black-market networks of renegade suppliers (like Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan pictured on the cover) willing to deal in the materials and technical expertise that lead to nuclear weapons. The ensuing nightmare could materialize quite unexpectedly in any large city.
This electronic journal, "Today's Nuclear Equation," offers the U.S. position on critical treaty-related issues as well as a range of expert opinion on the thorniest current issues in nuclear nonproliferation.
New proliferation threats require new tools and a willingness to improve and creatively adapt the nonproliferation regime that helps protect us all.
The NPT's collective security framework is severely undermined when NPT parties violate their nonproliferation obligations.
The world is awash with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials.
The theft of a tactical nuclear weapon, or the purchase of weapons-grade nuclear material by terrorists is a 21st-century nightmare that may well come true.
Libya's decision to give up its weapons of mass destruction programs is a real nonproliferation success story of the new millennium.
Iran's claim that it has a "peaceful" right to acquire all it needs to come within days of having a bomb should remind us of what the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was meant to avoid.
The government of North Korea has never been in full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it acceded in 1985.
Existing nonproliferation regimes may be inadequate to deal with the emerging threat of non-state proliferation as exemplified by the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network.
It has so far proven very "difficult for novelists or filmmakers to portray the mentality of the stateless terrorist, the messianic fanatic who seeks to murder people indiscriminately."
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