FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07/05/05
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org

Joseph Cirincione, Jon B. Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar—one of the premier research teams covering nonproliferation issues today—provide the most current data and new policy analysis on global proliferation dangers in their new book, Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats. The updated and expanded edition includes new chapters exploring dramatic developments in Iran, North Korea, Iraq and Libya and the status of the nuclear black market.

The book details North Korea’s nuclear program, including estimates of their arsenal, the 40-year history of their activities and assesses U.S. efforts to end Pyongyang’s program. Deadly Arsenals also is the first book to objectively evaluate the new information on Iran’s nuclear program from IAEA inspections and revelations of Iran’s eighteen years of clandestine efforts. The study also provides estimates of global nuclear weapon stockpiles, country-by-country capabilities and motives, and prospects for the global nonproliferation regime.

The authors announce in the new book that they will no longer use the term “weapons of mass destruction.” As Joseph Cirincione explains, “this phrase conflates very different threats from weapons that differ greatly in lethality and consequence of use. The failure to differentiate these threats leads to seriously flawed policy.”

The authors will discuss the new book on Tuesday, July 12th, an event which will be aired as a LIVE AT CARNEGIE audiocast on the web, www.CarnegieEndowment.org/DA2live.

Deadly Arsenals provides the latest, most comprehensive, and best non-classified information available. A CHOICE outstanding academic title, this encyclopedic collection is an invaluable resource for academics, policy makers, students, and the media. Deadly Arsenals includes strategic and historical analysis; maps, charts, and graphs of the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems; descriptions of weapons and regimes—and the policies to control them; as well as extensive data on countries that have, want, or have given up nuclear ambitions.

Visit www.CarnegieEndowment.org/DeadlyArsenals for free excerpts and ordering information.

July 2005, 525 pp. / $29.95 / paper: 0-87003-216-X         

Joseph Cirincione is director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment. Jon B. Wolfsthal is deputy director and Miriam Rajkumar is project associate.

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