Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Problems of Our Time: Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism

2. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons

3. An Overview of International Law and Arms Control

4. The Cornerstone of Security: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

5. The Political Value of Nuclear Weapons

6. Stopping Nuclear Explosions: The Test Ban

7. Missile Defense

8. Outer Space

9. Cleaning Up After Past Wars: Land Mines and Small Arms

10. Poison Gas and Microbes: Chemical and Biological Weapons

11. Controlling Nuclear Materials: The Situation in Russia

12. Regional Issues: Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East and Nuclear Weapons in South and Northeast Asia

13. America's Role

Conclusion

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix 1. Global Nuclear Status

Appendix 2. Global Nuclear Stockpiles

Appendix 3. Weapon Development Milestones

Chronology

Glossary

Index

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About the Author

Thomas Graham Jr. served for several decades as general counsel and acting director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was President Clinton's special ambassador for nuclear disarmament issues, and his work culminated in the agreement to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Graham is special counsel at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, DC, and teaches classes in international law and arms control.

Reviews

"If security and arms control seem arcane, this vivid, succinct guided tour by a master diplomat with decades of hands-on experience is the authoritative antidote." Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The making of the atomic bomb