A modest proposal: Is it time for the community of non-nuclear states to revolt?
There are 189 countries that are parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) that entered into force in 1970. Only India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea have remained outside the treaty...
View ArticleDrone attacks: American citizens and foreign civilians
The execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni imam, by a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011 has generated a lively debate among liberally minded lawyers in the United States because...
View ArticleWarfare without limits: a darkening human horizon
There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the absolute, and imperil the human future. Perhaps, the foremost of these is emergence, use, retention, and proliferation of nuclear...
View ArticleWho sold Gaddafi his guns? Mostly Europe.
Gaddafi stockpile bunker, Zintan, June 29, 2011. Credit: REUTERS/Anis Mili Earlier this month Al Jazeera traced the international arms trade to the Middle East since the beginning of the Arab Spring...
View ArticleFrom Soviet scraps to backpack drones: the weapons of Libya’s rebels
During the Libya War there was much attention in world news media on the presence of outdated and misused weapons technology as well as the extensive use of Toyota technical pickup trucks. However, as...
View ArticleRemember, Tehran’s “nuclear ambiguity” was learnt from Israel
2011 IAEA General Conference, Image credit: anonymous reader of Arms Control Wonk Consider this: you are a willing outcast, with few solid friends and many formidable enemies. How do you survive? By...
View ArticleAustralia driving the push for nuclear disarmament? Hardly
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Fifteen years ago in The Hague, the International Court of Justice – the highest legal authority in the world – handed down one of its most contentious advisory...
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