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Michael Krepon • Assured Destruction
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his coterie of civilian “whiz kids,” and their attachment to cost-effectiveness methods alien to the Pentagon brass, generated great friction. None were more affronted that General Curtis LeMay, the head of SAC, who thought McNamara “was turning his country’s back on the capacity for victory though air power in nuclear war.” This quote comes from McGeorge Bundy’s masterful Danger and Survival, Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (1988). McNamara briefly considered a “damage limitation” nuclear posture, which meant avoiding cities and targeting opposing forces that could do great harm.Remarks At the Conference on Disarmament
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for your leadership and your efforts to make the Conference on Disarmament an effective tool for addressing the critical challenges we face today.
Twelve Years Since Mine Ban Treaty Entry Into Force | Arms Control Now: The Blog of the Arms Control Association
March 1 marks the 12th anniversary of the 1999 entry into force of the Mine Ban Treaty, which seeks to eliminate the use of one of the most destructive and indiscriminate weapons of war. It has been over a year since the Barack Obama administration began a comprehensive review of its landmines policy. During those months, U.S. and international leaders have made a clear case that now is the time for the United States to join with the global consensus and accede to the treaty.En bleu, les États parties de la Convention d'Ottawa La Convention sur l'interdiction des mines antipersonnel , de son nom complet Convention sur l'interdiction de l'emploi, du stockage, de la production et du transfert des mines antipersonnel et sur leur destruction (aussi appelée Convention d’Ottawa ou Traité d'Ottawa), est un traité international de désarmement qui interdit l'acquisition, la production, le stockage et l'utilisation des mines antipersonnel . La Convention a été ouverte à la signature les 3 et 4 décembre 1997 et déposée le 5 décembre de la même année à New York auprès du secrétaire général des Nations unies . Elle est entrée en vigueur le 1er mars 1999 .
Convention sur l'interdiction des mines antipersonnel - Wikipédia
CTBT 2011
Biohazard
One box from the Chemical and Biological Warfare Collection in the Archive's reading room. Among the National Security Archive’s unpublished materials available for researchers is the Chemical and Biological Warfare Collection. This collection of 20 boxes was compiled by Jordan Richie, a National Security Archive researcher and project coordinator, who in the early 1990s made numerous FOIA requests and conducted library and archival research on chemical and biological weapons policy, safety, proliferation, control, status, and disposal. The collection covers the time period from 1916 to 1991, focusing on the 1970s to 1980s with an emphasis on Southeast Asia. Included in this collection are numerous, often lengthy, materials related to the Sverdlovsk incident in the Soviet Union, the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides (“Yellow Rain”) in Vietnam.
No FOIA Request Needed: The Chemical and Biological Warfare Coll
After New START: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st Century Arms Control - Council on Foreign Relations
Now that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) has finally entered into force, how will the Obama administration achieve further bilateral nuclear reductions with Russia? With tremendous effort, public engagement, and compromise. Negotiating a follow-on agreement promises to be difficult and divisive -- even more so than with New START -- because it will force both countries to reassess deeply ingrained beliefs about how nuclear and non-nuclear assets affect national security.
A new START (2010-2011)
Paul F. Walker From November 29 to December 3, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will host its 15th annual conference of states-parties in to review recent progress in the global elimination of chemical weapons. As the international implementing agency for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the OPCW has overseen the safe and verified demilitarization of more than 43,000 metric tons of deadly chemical agents in almost four million weapons and containers since the convention’s entry into force in April 1997. As the key institutional elements of the most successful multilateral arms control and disarmament regime to date, the CWC and OPCW serve as models for long-term, verified, and cooperative nonproliferation, threat reduction, and global security regimes.[ 1 ]
Abolishing Chemical Weapons: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities | Arms Control Association