THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DISARMAMENT

China’s Role in the Chemical and Biological Disarmament Regimes

Modern China has been linked with the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and missile weapons technology to states of proliferation concern, and its compliance with arms control and disarmament is seen as key to the effectiveness of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) nonproliferation efforts. In this context, the answer to Gerald Segal’s question, “Does China really matter?” is most definitely, ...

In the Shadow of Anthrax: Strengthening the Biological Disarmament Regime Viewpoint

Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker has directed the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, since March 1996. He is the editor of Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (MIT Press, 2000), and the author of Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Atlantic Month...

Disarmament Games with Resources

A paper by Deng and Conitzer in AAAI’17 introduces disarmament games, in which players alternatingly commit not to play certain pure strategies. However, in practice disarmament usually does not consist in removing a strategy, but rather in removing a resource (and doing so rules out all the strategies in which that resource is used simultaneously). In this paper, we introduce a model of disarm...

Disarmament Games

Much recent work in the AI community concerns algorithms for computing optimal mixed strategies to commit to, as well as the deployment of such algorithms in real security applications. Another possibility is to commit not to play certain actions. If only one player makes such a commitment, then this is generally less powerful than completely committing to a single mixed strategy. However, if p...

Biological and Chemical Weapons and the Prospective Disarmament Process in the Middle East