Today's Nuclear Equation

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March 2005

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.

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Volume 10, Number 1

From the Editors

About This Issue
U.S. Firmly Committed to NPT
President George W. Bush

U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy

Controlling the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
New proliferation threats require new tools and a willingness to improve and creatively adapt the nonproliferation regime that helps protect us all.
How to Strengthen the NPT
The NPT's collective security framework is severely undermined when NPT parties violate their nonproliferation obligations.

Perspectives

Taking Legislative Aim at Weapons of Mass Destruction
The world is awash with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials.
Nuclear Terrorism: Weapons for Sale or Theft?
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.

Case Studies: Successes and Challenges

Libya Renounces Weapons of Mass Destruction
Libya's decision to give up its weapons of mass destruction programs is a real nonproliferation success story of the new millennium.
After Iran: Keeping Nuclear Energy Peaceful
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.
North Korea: A Rogue State Outside the NPT Fold
The government of North Korea has never been in full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it acceded in 1985.
New Players on the Scene: A.Q. Khan and the Nuclear Black Market
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.
Not with a Whimper: Visions of Mass Destruction in Fiction and Film
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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