Introduction: Nuclear disarmament and arms control for the next decade

Tactical Nuclear Weapons Elimination: next Step for Arms Control

Dr. Nikolai Sokov began his career as a research fellow at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies in Moscow and at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), where he received his candidate of history degree in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry and worked on disarmament issues and participated in the START I talks. In 1992, he took a leave of absence...

The Non-Aligned Movement and Nuclear Disarmament: Stance and Actions

The emergence of nuclear weapons as a new actor in international relations has introduced a new area in the international security arena. Since the appearance of these weapons, there have been increasing efforts to limit and destroy them in order to achieve global peace in the framework of disarmament and centered around the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Along with the eme...

The Prospects for Global Nuclear Disarmament

Predicting the future can be a risky business, but predicting the future of nuclear disarmament is especially difficult, linked as it is to the core security concerns of very powerful countries. Not only is the subject imperfectly defined but it is constantly evolving under the influence of forces that are too numerous and too complex to allow for any confident projections. Yet because the issu...

An Introduction to Arms Control

Verifying Nuclear Disarmament

Commentators differ on whether nuclear disarmament would be desirable, but many argue that disarmament is impractical because it could not be verified. Three reasons are often offered for such pessimism. First, nuclear weapons are small and difficult to detect, and one could not be sure that a few weapons had not been hidden away. Second, nuclear weapons are so destructive that a mere handful w...