The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Information Project with Federation American Scientists, Matt Korda, a research associate project. column has been published in Bulletin Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s examines Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, which may include approximately 165 warheads. authors estimate that country’s stockpile could ...

The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Information Project with Federation American Scientists, Matt Korda, a research associate project. column has been published in Bulletin Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s examines Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which includes stockpile nerarly 4,500 warheads. Of these, some 1,600 strategic warheads are dep...

The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Information Project with Federation American Scientists, Matt Korda, a senior research associate project. column has been published in Bulletin Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue examines status India’s nuclear arsenal, which includes stockpile approximately 160 warheads. India continues to modernize its...

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The following discussion presumes some broad arms limitation program, rather than simply a nuclear test ban, and focuses on the inspection of economic records as part of an effort to verify adherence to (detect evasion of) an agreement limiting weapons production. The special problems involved in inspecting different kinds of weapons production-for example, aircraft, missiles, and fissionable m...

"cannot be disinvented." Yet the present policy of the declared nuclear weapon states of trying to impose nuclear apartheid by force provokes the spread of nuclear weapons, rather than supporting the stated goal of non-proliferation. The only way out of this lethal spiral is to accept global nuclear disarmament by consistent use of the law -as the world is already doing with chemical and biolog...

T his year, on 17 June, the Geneva Protocol, an international treaty prohibiting the use of asphyxiating or poisonous gases and bacteriological methods of warfare, turned 80 years of age. It was fostered in part by a 1918 appeal in which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) described the use of poisonous gas against soldiers as a " barbarous invention which science is bringing to...

The list of agents that could pose the greatest public health risk in the event of a bioterrorist attack is short. However, although short, the list includes agents that, if acquired and properly disseminated, could cause a difficult public health challenge in terms of our ability to limit the numbers of casualties and control the damage to our cities and nation. The use of biological weapons h...