Stimson Center’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project is cited at Officer.com
While chemical and biological weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction (U.N. Resolution 687) and their use banned by international law (Chemical Weapons Convention, 1993), they are nevertheless a present…
US Supply of Heavy Weapons to the KRG Worries Baghdad
…violent clashes between Iraqi Kurds and Iraqi security forces. These included an Iraqi massacre of 5,000 Kurdish civilians in 1988 in the town of Halabja using chemical weapons amid the…
The Hiroshima anniversary: 5 things you should know about nuclear weapons today
…five key points to keep in mind about nuclear weapons on this somber anniversary: 1) The taboo against using nuclear weapons in warfare has held since 1945 — contrary to…
Analysis Of State Of The Union Address
…comes to nuclear weapons. He has retired only 500 or so nuclear weapons from the U.S. stockpile, far fewer than his three predecessors. He passed up several opportunities to revise…
Germany’s Weapon Freeze: Political Gesture or Policy Shift?
…is a very complex relationship,” he said, adding that the German government has not been fully transparent about which weapons it has actually stopped supplying. German law distinguishes between “weapons…
The Four Tyrannies of Logistical Deterrence
…designed to operate within a contested area and disrupt the plans of an adversary. It also depends on keeping those forces fed, providing ammunition for weapons, and fueling aircraft and…
India and the United States: Friends Elsewhere, Foes at the UN
…India presses for total and non-discriminatory elimination of nuclear weapons through two annual resolutions – “Reducing Nuclear Danger” and “Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons”9United Nations,…
Stimson’s B61 Life Extension Program: Costs and Policy Considerations report cited in Eurosmi
…fact that tactical nuclear weapons are not regulated by official agreements with global security position, it is not inferior in the degree of risk of any nuclear weapons. A recent study…