The Nonproliferation Treaty and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives

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...

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...

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

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...

Multilateralism and the Future of the Global Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Jayantha Dhanapala is the Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. He served as President of the 1995 Nonproliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. He has also served as the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva and the United States, worked as Director of the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and ...