Arms control

Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Committee on International Security of Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences, National Academic Press, Washington, D.C., 1994. 

U.S. cooperative efforts with Russia on plutonium disposition are premised on a two-track approach, including immobilization and burning as MOX in reactors. The 200 million recently appropriated by tbe U.S. Congress will help jump start the ongoing negotiations with Russia but, ultimately, more funding will be needed to create the necessary infrastructure in Russia to dispose of approximately 50 tons of surplus Russian plutonium, and eventually more as arms control progresses. 

Global nuclear material management, started at Sandia National Laboratories as a visionary concept for tying the national security benefits of materials back to proliferation prevention, arms control and civilian nuclear power. Under the leadership of Senator... 

Another application for reed sensors in modern dishwashers is within the spray-arm control device. This application is very important in protecting the dishes, and even the dishwasher itself, from damage. 

Assessing die universality of the CWC (by the way one of the requirement of the First Review Conference), one can come to interesting results comparing this requirement with the status of other principal agreements on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as can be demonstrated by table 1. It seems that one could be satisfied with relatively high number of SPs, seven years after EIF in comparison with other presented arms-control / disarmament agreements. Nevertheless, for the prevention of any use of CW, it is necessary to reach higher number of SPs mainly because most of the above mentioned important non-SPs concentrated in Near and Middle East and on Korean peninsula are supposed nearly certainly to be possessors of CW (not to speak on possession of other kinds of WMD like in the case of Israel). 

The Chemical Weapons Convention of the 13.01.1993 is disarmament and arms control treaty whose aims are the prohibition of... 

Bolton, John R., Undersecretary of State For Arms Control and International Security, The International Aspects of Terrorism And Weapons of Mass Destruction, Second Global Conference On Nuclear, Bio/Chem Terrorism Mitigation And Response, The Hudson Institute, Washington, DC Friday, November 1, 2002 as Released By The State Department and cited in Gilmore 2002. 

Dr. Meselson remains a prominent leader in the cause of arms control, especially biological and chemical weapons, and has been the recipient of many deserved awards. It was nice that, despite our ideological differences, we were able to have a frank and friendly (although brief) exchange of opinions. 

Song Why Non-Lethal Chemical Agents are Lethal. Federation of American Scientists Chemical and Biological Arms Control Program, March 2003... 

Canadian-based gun control advocacy group that also emphasizes international gun and small arms control issues. 

Carter, L. J. Pjgford, T. H. 1999. The world s growing inventory of civil spent fuel. Arms Control Today, January/February, 8-14. 

The entry into force of the 1993 CWC on 29 April 1997 was unique in the history of arms control. This agreement both banned an entire class of weapons and simultaneously addressed chemical proliferation concerns. It was not, however, the attention to non-proliferation that made the Convention unique, rather that the CWC incorporated an elaborate international system for verification of compliance.1... 

Sources Arms Control Association Monteray Institute of International Studies Chemical and Biological Weapons Possession and Programmes Past and Present, http //cns.miis.edu/ research/cbw/possess.htm Russian Government Resolution No. 510 (5 July 2001) Iraq s Weapons of Mass Destruction The Assessment of the British Government, www.pm.gov.uk. 

Brian M. Jenkins, Understanding the Link Between Motives and Methods, in Brad Roberts (ed.), Terrorism with Chemical and Biological Weapons, Arlington VA The Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute (1997), p. 45. 

Harms van den Berg, The Fatal Fallout from El A1 Flight 1862, Jerusalem Report (21 December 1998), pp. 16-21. For a comprehensive review of Israel s chemical and biological weapons programme, see Avner Cohen, Israel and Chemical/Biological Weapons History, Deterrence and Arms Control, The Non-Proliferation Review, Fall-Winter (2001), pp. 27-53. 

Amy E. Smithson and Maureen Lenihan, The Destruction of Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention , Science and Global Security, 6 (1996), p. 93 Jonathan B. Tucker, Russia s Plan for Chemical Weapons Destruction, Arms Control Today (July-August 2001). 

Cohen, Avner, Israel and Chemical and Biological Weapons History, Deterrence and Arms Control, Non-Proliferation Review (Fall-Winter 2001). 

National Security Advisor under NSC Director McGeorge Bundy, and Richard Barnet, a former State Department Advisor on Arms Control... 

Bernstein, D., ed.. Cooperative Business Ventures Between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises, Stanford, Calif Stanford University, The Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997. 

Collina, Tom Z., and Jon B. Wolfsthal, Nuclear Terrorism and Warhead Control in Russia, Arms Control Today, April 2002. 

Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Research Council, Proliferation Concerns Assessing US. Efforts to Help Contain Nuclear and Other Dangerous Materials and Technologies in the Former Soviet Union, Washington,... 

Parachini, John, Non-Proliferation Policy and the War on Terrorism, Arms Control Today, Arms Control Association, October 2001, http //www.armscontrol.org/act/ 2001 10/parachinioct01.asp (as of January 18, 2005). 

Spector, L. S., Missing the Forest for the Trees U.S. Non-Proliferation Programs in Russia, Arms Control Today, June 2001. 

Language is not always neutral, and often contains powerful codes of permissible and impermissible behaviour. The constant reference in recent times to the risks posed to America by weapons of mass destruction may well be part of the pohtical-psychological strategy of making the use of nuclear weapons more palatable to domestic public opinion. But the effort to expand the role of nuclear weapons as a counter to the development or acquisition of WMD by US-hostile states could pose a threat to arms control, disarmament and non-prohferation. It is not clear... 

This is developed more fully in Ramesh Thakur, Arras Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation A Political Perspective , in Jeffrey A. Larsen and Thomas D. Miller, eds, Arms Control in the Asia-Pacific Region (Colorado Springs US AF Institute for National Security Studies, US Air Force Academy, 1999), pp. 39-61. 

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