Arms on the Market
Arms on the Market

Author: Suzette Grillot R

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-07-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1136801448

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Almost overnight, the massive military-industrial assets of the Soviet Union came under the jurisdiction of fifteen states instead of one established government. While only four states inherited weapons of mass destruction, most of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union can produce sensitive materials and equipment. Because all the states se

Proliferation Concerns
Proliferation Concerns

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-04-15

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0309174813

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The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities and technologies. Preventing the flow of such items to countries of proliferation concern and to terrorist groups is a major objective of U.S. national security policy. This book reviews the effectiveness of two U.S. programs directed to this objective. These programs have supported the efforts of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakstan in upgrading the physical protection, control, and accountability of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and strengthening systems to control the export of many types of militarily sensitive items.

Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era
Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1994-02-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0309050316

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This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use technologies, with respect to expanded trade between Western advanced industrialized countries and the republics of the former Soviet Union as well as to the export trade of the Russian and other CIS republics with countries of proliferation concern.

Weapons of Mass Destruction
Weapons of Mass Destruction

Author: Edward M. Spiers

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780312228521

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Far from producing a new era of peace, tranquillity and respect for international law, the ending of the Cold War has fuelled fresh concerns about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These anxieties mounted both during and after the Gulf War, and were compounded by the revelations of the UN inspectors in Iraq and the belated Russian admission that scientists in the former Soviet Union had been engaged in a covert biological weapons programme for some twenty years. This book examines the changing pattern both of incentives and of disincentives for such proliferation, including the utility of these weapons at state and sub-state levels. It also considers how other states should respond, assessing the achievements and limitations of arms and export controls, the evolving concept of deterrence, the debates about counter-proliferation policies and the problems in developing defences that will effectively counter an inherently dynamic phenomenon.

Proliferation and Export Controls
Proliferation and Export Controls

Author: Kathleen C. Bailey

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays explores the problem of nuclear, chemical and missile proliferation. Contributors discuss the role of export controls in preventing or delaying proliferation, and contrast the relative benefits of export controls with their costs to industry and to international political relationships. Particular emphasis is placed on the challenges posed by export controls to the US-European Community partnership, and to the effects of European unity following unity in 1993. Contributors: Bill Richardson, John Harvey, Michael Elleman, Matthias Dembinski, Benoit Morel, David Fischer, Jeff Bingaman, Jan Hoekema, Harald Muller, William Burns, Richard Kauzlarich, and Reinhard Rode.