Costs of Disarmament--Disarming the Costs: Nuclear Arms Control and Nuclear Rearmament

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Executive Summary......Page 14
Acronyms......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
The Costs and Risks of the Nuclear Arms Race......Page 24
Nuclear Arms Control......Page 32
START I......Page 34
START II......Page 37
START III......Page 39
The START Verification Regime......Page 40
Assessing the Cost of Treaty Compliance......Page 42
The US Cost of START Compliance......Page 44
Russia’s Costs and Savings......Page 46
Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme......Page 48
The Security Benefits of START/CTR......Page 52
Russia’s Structural Disarmament......Page 56
US Desire for Flexibility......Page 59
SORT: A New Strategic Accommodation?......Page 60
The Push for Nuclear Rearmament......Page 64
Nuclear Posture Review......Page 66
Bunker Busters......Page 68
Breaking Taboos......Page 70
The Costs Implications of the NPR......Page 71
Ballistic Missile Defences......Page 72
Costs of BMD......Page 75
The Costs of US Rearmament......Page 77
The Full Costs of Nuclear Weapons......Page 82
The US Nuclear Weapons Legacy......Page 83
The Stockpile Stewardship Program......Page 89
Human Costs......Page 91
Environmental Costs......Page 94
US Plutonium Disposition Costs......Page 101
The Recurring Costs of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Legacy......Page 103
Environmental Legacy and Human Cost of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons......Page 105
Proliferation Risks or the “Loose Nukes” Syndrome......Page 111
The Nuclear Materials Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Programme......Page 112
Highly Enriched Uranium Deal......Page 114
The Nuclear Cities Initiative......Page 116
Plutonium Disposition......Page 118
Problems with US-Russian Cooperation......Page 120
US-Russia Working Group on Advanced Nuclear Technologies......Page 122
US-Russia Working Group on Nuclear Materials Reduction......Page 123
Summary and Conclusion......Page 124
Cost and Benefits of START......Page 125
Recurring Cost of Nuclear Arms......Page 126
Notes......Page 130
Appendix 1 Strategic Nuclear Forces of the Former Soviet Union......Page 148
Appendix 2 Current US Strategic Nuclear Forces......Page 152
Appendix 3 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty and Joint Statement of President Bush and President Putin......Page 154
Appendix 4 Kananaskis Summit, Canada, 2002......Page 164
Recent UNIDIR Publications......Page 172