Commentary
The EU can impose sanctions but struggles to enforce them without the United States. With Washington increasingly disinterested in backing European interests, the bloc must now fend for itself.
Nicu Popescu, Tiago Antunes
Book
Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, <i>Second Edition, Revised and Expanded</i>
The revised and expanded edition ofDeadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts.
Published on Jul 10, 2005
Source: Washington
The new edition addresses the recent, dramatic developments in Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and the nuclear black market, analyzing strategic and policy implications.
On July 12, 2005, the authors of this new study presented their findings and then chaired a discussion and debate with experts from the audience. Click here to go to the LIVE AT CARNEGIE site, featuring archived audio and a slideshow presentation with new maps and charts from the book.
About the Authors
Joseph Cirincione previously served as a senior associate and director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and is coauthor of the major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security and editor of Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Routledge, 2000).
Jon B. Wolfsthal is former associate and deputy director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment. He is coauthor of Universal Compliance and coeditor of Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union (Carnegie/Monterey, 2001).
Miriam Rajkumar is former project associate for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment.
Advance Praise
"[A] comprehensive and useful guide to nuclear and CBW proliferation issues, and an essential companion to the SIPRI Yearbook.”
—Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont, Caucasian Review of International Affairs
About the Authors
Joseph Cirincione
Former Senior Associate, Director for NonProliferation
Jon Wolfsthal
Former Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program
Jon Wolfsthal was a nonresident scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program.
Miriam Rajkumar
Former Associate, Non-Proliferation Project
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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