The United States is headed for a showdown with Russia and China this week over competing international treaties, one banning the production of nuclear materials and the other trying to prevent an arms race in space.
The 191-member U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved a treaty outlawing the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists and their supporters.
The defeat of the Bush administration's proposal to fund the development of next-generation "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons was hailed by arms control advocates as their biggest success in more than a decade.
The United States should again be a leader in arms control and disarmament and ratify a global test ban treaty to encourage other nuclear powers to do so according to Hans Blix, the former head of the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq.
Analysts say that a combination of US military efforts - including missile defense, plans for new low-yield nuclear weapons, and expansion up to Russia's western doorstep - are chilling relations with Moscow and spurring a new, higher-tech arms race.
Several nations are pressing for creation of a U.N. agency to monitor biological weapons and missiles, but in the face of U.S. opposition such a body might never be anything more than a notion.
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization still has hope that patient diplomacy can reinvigorate the stalled global effort to ban nuclear test explosions.
An excellent overview of the challenges U.N. investigators face in trying to verify if Iraq (or any nation) has a program to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The author argues that international efforts to block nanotechnology research should be accelerated because of the importance nanotechnology and MEMs research will have for the development of fourth-generation nuclear weapons.
Revised definitions of ?range? and ?payload? in the Missile Technology Control Regime will help reduce the proliferation of cruise missiles according to U.S. officials.