Nuclear Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Counterterrorism: Impacts on Public Health

New Approaches to Compliance with Arms Control and Nonproliferation Agreements

Michael Moodie is President of the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a former Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he had responsibility for a range of arms control matters, including negotiations concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention and issues related to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Dr. Amy S...

Microtubules support nuclear nonproliferation arrangement

Microtubules suppor t nuclear nonproliferation arrangement L aporte et al. describe how a mi-crotubule array reorganizes the nucleus to aid the survival of qui-escent budding yeast. Eukaryotic cells undergo a dramatic rearrangement when they temporarily exit the cell cycle and become qui-escent. Budding yeast, for example, reorganize their actin cyto-skeleton into immobile structures called act...

Economic and Technological Trends Affecting Nuclear Nonproliferation

Stanley A. Erickson received a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and has been working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1977. Until the early 1990s, Mr. Erickson’s work was focused primarily on military devices. More recently, he has been involved in nonproliferation efforts, including nuclear site security, nuclear smuggling preventio...

Nuclear Strategy, Nonproliferation, and the Causes of Foreign Nuclear Deployments

Why do countries deploy nuclear weapons abroad? Since 1945, more than twenty states have hosted foreign nuclear weapons on their territory, and five countries continue to do so today. These deployments have important consequences for international security, yet there is little systematic research about the factors that drive them. In this article, we develop three broad theoretical frameworks t...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime and Nuclear Realities: Repair or Reassessment?