TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cortright,David
AU  - Väyrynen,Raimo
ED  - International Institute for Strategic Studies
TI  - Towards nuclear zero
T2  - Adelphi paper
SN  - 9780415595285
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge for International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
KW  - nuclear disarmament
KW  - nuclear weapons
KW  - nonproliferation
N2  - Rarely in the atomic age have hopes for genuine progress towards disarmament been raised as high as they are now. Governments, prompted by the renewed momentum of non-proliferation and disarmament initiatives, have put nuclear policy at the top of the international agenda. But how can countries move from warm words to meaningful action? By what means could the world be weaned from its addiction to nuclear weapons and who should undertake the task of supervising this process? This Adelphi examines practical steps for achieving progress toward disarmament, assessing the challenges and opportunities associated with achieving a world without nuclear weapons. it places the current debate over abolition in the context of urgent non-proliferation priorities, such as the need to prevent terrorists. It distils lessons from states that have already given up nuclear programmes and from the end of the Cold War to suggest ways of countering the efforts of Iran and North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons. For the longer term, it offers policy recommendations for movings towards a reduced global reliance on nuclear weapons
ER  -