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Seventh ISODARCO-Beijing Seminar on Arms Control XIAN, CHINA — 8-12 OCTOBER 2000   OVERVIEW PARTICIPANTS AGENDA PAPERS by Lisbeth Gronlund Senior Staff Scientist Union of Concerned Scientists   President Clinton recently announced that he would not authorize deployment of the national missile defense (NMD) system under development by the United States. However, the issue of […]

Seventh ISODARCO-Beijing Seminar on Arms Control XIAN, CHINA — 8-12 OCTOBER 2000 OVERVIEW PARTICIPANTS AGENDA PAPERS by Rebecca Johnson  The Acronym Institute, September 29, 2000. DRAFT: not for quoting or attribution without author’s permission   Introduction Britain became the third nuclear weapon possessor on October 3, 1952. Doctrine and policy have fluctuated during the years, […]

Seventh ISODARCO-Beijing Seminar on Arms Control XIAN, CHINA — 8-12 OCTOBER 2000   OVERVIEW PARTICIPANTS AGENDA PAPERS by Joeseph Cirincione Director, Non-Proliferation Prject Carnegie Endowment for International Peace   SUMMARY The drive to deploy a National Missile Defense System in the United  States is not driven primarily by threats or technology, but by  politics.  The […]

British Approaches  to Nuclear Disarmament  and National Missile Defense   by Rebecca Johnson  The Acronym Institute, September 29, 2000.DRAFT: not for quoting or attribution without author’s permission Introduction Britain became the third nuclear weapon possessor on October 3, 1952. Doctrine and policy have fluctuated during the years, reflecting doctrinal shifts in the United States and […]

Gu Guoliang is Deputy Director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.  Gu heads a new arms control center at the Institute and is a renowned arms control expert with diplomatic experience.  The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is currently undertaking some of the PRC’s most intensive research on the […]

JAPAN AND THE NAVY THEATER-WIDE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM by David C. Wright and Eryn MacDonald (1) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States is currently developing the first phase (Block I) of the Navy Theater-Wide (NTW) missile defense system. Japan has agreed to cooperate in developing the second phase of the system (Block II). Japanese involvement in […]

Wade Huntley, Ph.D. Dr. Wade L. Huntley is the Program Director at the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research, in the Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.  Previously he was Associate Professor at theHiroshima Peace Institute in Hiroshima, Japan, and Director of the Global Peace and Security Program at the Nautilus […]

Gee Gee Wong is the Associate at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, is currently based in Beijing, China. Gee Gee is the Nautilus Liason for China and greater Asia. Her responsibilities include producing and editing theDaily Report and the Week-in-Review of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet). She is a […]

Michael J. GREEN is Senior Fellow for Asian Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is also acting director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and a consultant to the Office of the […]

David C. WRIGHT is a senior staff scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a research fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT. Previously, he was an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow in International Peace and Security at Harvard’s Center for Science and International Affairs, and a senior arms control analyst at the Federation of […]