Rachel Stohl quoted in Executive Magazine on chemical weapons in Syria
…country is in crisis or transition and loses control over a stockpile of weapons – be they conventional or chemical – there’s an inherent danger to the population. Loose weapons…
Cratering Effects: Chinese Missile Threats to US Air Bases in the Indo-Pacific
…Pacific; hardened fuel-storage facilities; and dispersed storage facilities containing weapons, munitions, and equipment, including runway repair kits. Above all, American political and military leaders — as well as the American…
Expanding the Australia Group’s Chemical Weapons Precursors Control List with a Family-Based Approach
The Australia Group (AG) is a forum of like-minded states seeking to harmonize export controls to prevent the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. The AG Chemical Weapons Precursors (CWP)…
Assistant Secretary Shapiro Discusses Libya’s Missing Weapons
…the Gadhafi regime on the uncontrolled proliferation of conventional weapons, including man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). Speakers and panelists highlighted the impact of these weapons, not only to security in…
Keeping the Most Dangerous Weapons out of the Worst Hands
…bloc state What is UN Security Council Resolution 1540? In 2004, the United Nations Security Council identified the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, their related material, as well…
UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Part II: The Caribbean States: A Case Study
…the wealthy industrialized North. The perceived lack of progress by the nuclear weapons states on their disarmament obligations under Article VI of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is immediately, albeit…
A New Paradigm for Terrorism: September 11 and Strategic Trade Controls to Prevent the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
…the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT), the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT), the Nuclear Security Summits. The attacks also prompted the adoption…
The Stimson Center and OARO partner on developing the world’s first blockchain prototype for monitoring and tracking the international chemical trade
…and nonproliferation regimes. Stimson’s Partnerships in Proliferation Prevention program seeks to develop data and tools to empower those working to prevent the proliferation of chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons…