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The success of multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle depends on their political acceptability. The central problem hampering progress toward a multilateral approach is distrust among...

This study addresses the security risks to a world without nuclear weapons that could come from nuclear fuel-cycle technologies and what could be done to mitigate those risks. It examines what role...

This publication contains the proceedings of the 2007 conference “Celebrating the Space Age: 50 Years of Space Technology, 40 Years of the Outer Space Treaty” on the issue of space security, the...

“Security in Space: The Next Generation” is the seventh annual conference held by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research on the issue of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space...

This report analyzes national implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA). It highlights...

Success has been hard to attain in recent years in multilateral disarmament and arms control work. Besides political problems, obstacles to progress can be the unintended consequences of past practice...

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) remains a key piece of unfinished business of the nuclear age. As a growing number of governments and decision makers put forward ideas to move the...

This publication examines and maps the different dimensions of the small arms problem in the region. It attempts to highlight the gravity of the situation by describing the ways in which the small...

There is renewed and deep international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Yet 25 years after the end...

Africa's economic and social development has been held back by armed conflicts that have inflicted death, injury, hunger and homelessness. This book recognizes that in order to achieve economic...

A decade after the Bush-Gorbachov unilateral declarations on tactical nuclear weapons, this class of arms is again a cause for concern. This study looks further into the problem of tactical nuclear...

There is renewed and deep international concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from the detonation of nuclear weapons in populated areas. Yet 25 years after the end...

Peacekeeping in Africa: Capabilities and Culpabilities provides detailed insight into the efforts by the international community and regional and subregional organizations to promote peace and...