21st Century Weapons Proliferation
Are We Ready?

Leading US security practitioners fromt he Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, plus other experts on proliferation, clarify the weapons proliferation threats that the US and its allies will face.

A decade after coalition forces targetd Saddam's missile, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capabilities, public concern about strategic weapons proliferation has grown. India, Iraq, North Korea, China and pakistan have all renewed their efforts to acquire weapons capable of mass destruction. Meanwhile, growing surpluses of weapons-usable materials in the US, Russia, Japan and Europe have raised the spectre of nuclear theft and , with the Tokyo sarin attacks of 1995, the most horrific forms of terrorism. What should we make of these threats? Are the planne dresponses of the US and its allies sufficient? Will history ultimately end in a more prosperous, democratic and more peaceful world or will the accelerating availability of strategic technology be our doom? These questions are the focus of this work.

Part 1 The strategic weapons proliferation challenge ahead:
nuclear proliferation after the Indian and Pakistani tests,
Victor Gilinsky
terrorism and the weapons of the apocalypse, David C. Rapaport
the next strategic threat - advanced conventional weapons proliferation, Timothy Hoyt. Part 2 Proliferation - how appropriate is our response: what strategic weapons proliferation will demand of us, Henry Sokolski
beyond the counterproliferation initiative, Ashton B. Carter and L. Celeste Johnson
counterproliferation - a critical appraisal, Mas G. Mahnken
getting back to basics - controlling fissile materials, Frank von Hippel. Part 3 Is there cause for optimism?: why a rich, democratic and (perhaps) peaceful era is ahead, Henry S. Rowen
Muslim exceptionalism - why the end of history (and of proliferation) won't be easy, Daniel Pipes
Argentine and Brazilian nonproliferation - a democratic peace?, Michael Barletta
proliferation theory and nonproliferation practice, Peter Fever.