STRENGTHENING NONPROLIFERATION:
ESSENTIAL TO GLOBAL SECURITY

By Samuel R. Berger
National Security Adviser to President Clinton

THE PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:
CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES

By John D. Holum
Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

SMALL ARMS USE AND PROLIFERATION:
STRATEGIES FOR A GLOBAL DILEMMA

By Eric David Newsom
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs

A LANDMINE-SAFE WORLD BY 2010: NOT AN IDLE DREAM

By Ambassador Donald K. Steinberg
Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State
for Global Humanitarian Demining
and Laurie Zimmerman, Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow

ADAPTING THE CFE TREATY TO NEW REALITIES AND CHALLENGES

By Craig Gordon Dunkerley
Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: THE U.S. EXPERIENCE

By Lawrence Korb
Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

ARMS CONTROL IN THE 106TH CONGRESS

By Amy F. Woolf
Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research Service

By Senator Richard Lugar

THE COSTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN SOUTH ASIA

By Peter R. Lavoy
Director of Counterproliferation Policy
Office of the Secretary of Defense

PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS
TO IRAQ AND IRAN

By Bruce O. Riedel
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council

RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE OF PROLIFERATION:
ARTICLE ALERT

Abstracts of current articles

RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE OF PROLIFERATION:
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Spotlighting other views

RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE OF PROLIFERATION:
KEY INTERNET SITES

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