The Henry L. Stimson Center has just released Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty [2], the capstone of the Ploughshares-funded series "Unblocking the Road to Zero." The book, edited by Barry Blechman [3] and Alex Bolfrass [4], sets out to propose ways to achieve a verifiable nuclear zero. With chapters on verification, the nuclear fuel cycle, treaty negotiations, governance and enforcement of a treaty and breakout scenarios written by Ploughshares Fund grantees Ivan Oelrich [5] and Harold Feiveson [6], the report opens with a foreword by Frank Carlucci and William Perry. "For decades, proponents of maintaining large nuclear arsenals have rebuffed reductions with claims that a disarmament treaty could never be achieved, verified, or enforced," said Joe Cirincione. The experts assembled in Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty [2] destroy these fact-free assertions with a full-spectrum analysis of each political and technical obstacle to the security of a world without nuclear weapons and sober suggestions for how to overcome them. It is a how-to book you cannot do without."
Links
[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/1524
[2] http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?ID=905
[3] https://www.ploughshares.org/../../../../../../../expert/251
[4] http://www.stimson.org/about/staff.cfm?ID=275
[5] https://www.ploughshares.org/../../../../../../../expert/64
[6] https://www.ploughshares.org/../../../../../../../expert/77
[7] http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?ID=924