Safety, Security, and Stability: The Role of Nuclear Control Regimes in aProliferated World

摘要

The 103rd Congress directed professional military education schools to conduct abroad range of research related to policy issues concerning the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This paper comprises, in part, Air Command and Staff College's contribution to that effort. The policy issue we chose to research concerns the development of nuclear control regimes for emerging nuclear capable countries. Our team's collective experience in nuclear weapons acquisition, operations, maintenance, communications, intelligence, and arms negotiation reveals all too clearly the perils and pitfalls associated with developing and deploying nuclear weapons. The US, in the past, has refused to provide technical assistance to enhance the safety, security, and stability of proliferating countries' nuclear arsenals.