Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Cooperation as a Common Strategic Interest....Pages 1-3
Toward Peace with Ever-Fewer Weapons....Pages 5-8
Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons....Pages 9-10
Disarmament and Conversion....Pages 11-12
Challenges in Reducing the Legacy of the Cold War....Pages 13-18
French Policy on Arms Control and Disarmament....Pages 19-22
The Netherlands: Participation in Chemical Weapons Destruction....Pages 23-24
Norwegian Perspectives and Participation in Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Disarmament....Pages 25-28
U.S. National Perspectives on Cooperation in Disarmament: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program....Pages 29-32
Belarus: Problems of Disarmament and Arms Control....Pages 33-35
The French-Russian Programme for Nuclear Weapons Dismantlement: The “AIDA Plan”....Pages 37-38
German Perspectives on Cooperation in Disarmament....Pages 39-40
Japanese Perspectives on the Destruction of Nuclear and Chemical Weapons....Pages 41-42
Implementation of Arms Control Treaties: A U.K. Perspective....Pages 43-44
The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention....Pages 45-52
Overview of the United States Chemical Demilitarization Program....Pages 53-64
Destruction of German Old Chemical Weapons in Munster....Pages 65-68
United States Support to the Russian Chemical Weapons Destruction Program....Pages 69-75
German-Russian Cooperation in the Destruction of Chemical Weapons....Pages 77-78
Swedish-Russian Cooperation Project Concerning the Lewisite Storage Facility in Kambarka....Pages 79-84
Status of Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons....Pages 85-87
Cooperative Threat Reduction: The View from Russia....Pages 89-92
Nuclear Disarmament: A French Perspective....Pages 93-95
German Bilateral Cooperative Programmes in the Nuclear Field....Pages 97-98
Cooperative Approaches to Disarmament and Non-Proliferation....Pages 99-100
Japan’s Technical Secretariat on Cooperation for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons....Pages 101-104
Combatting Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear Materials: Cooperation Projects Financed by the European Union with Non-Member Countries ....Pages 105-118
Plans, Programmes and Challenges in the Destruction of Conventional Weapons....Pages 119-120
The CFE Treaty as the Foundation for European Security: Russia’s Participation and Perspectives....Pages 121-123
Dismantlement and Destruction of Conventional Weapons....Pages 125-129
Currently-Employed Destruction Technologies: An Introduction....Pages 131-133
Chemical Warfare Agents and Weapons Disposal Experience in the United States....Pages 135-150
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Working Party on Chemical Weapons Destruction Technologies....Pages 151-152
Destruction of Chemical Weapons....Pages 153-158
Old Chemical Weapons in Belgium: Do We Need Alternative Destruction Technologies?....Pages 159-160
Deactivation, Dismantlement and Destruction of Delivery Systems and Infrastructure....Pages 161-162
Dismantlement of Strategic Nuclear Delivery Vehicles and Their Associated Infrastructure: Prospects and Problems....Pages 163-168
Storage and Safeguarding of Fissile Materials....Pages 169-170
Disposition of Weapons-Grade Plutonium in Russia: Evaluation of Different Options....Pages 171-180
Storage, Safeguarding and Disposition of Fissile Materials....Pages 181-182
Plans, Programmes and Challenges in the Destruction of Conventional Weapons....Pages 183-184
Conversion Technologies and the Civilian Use of Demilitarised Material....Pages 185-188
The NATO Science Committee Disarmament Technologies Programme....Pages 189-202
Redirection of Research Facilities and Scientific Personnel....Pages 203-205
The Science and Technology Center of Ukraine....Pages 207-210
Cooperation in Solving Environmental Problems of the Armed Forces of Russia and Germany: Experience and Prospects....Pages 211-213
Aspects of Environmental Protection in the Destruction of Chemical Weapons....Pages 215-216
Environmental Policy Challenges in Connection with Disarmament and Contaminated Military Sites....Pages 217-222
Environmental Challenges Posed by Nuclear Disarmament in the North: The Finnish Response....Pages 223-225
Disarmament and Environment....Pages 227-229
Accomplishments and Challenges of Disarmament....Pages 231-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-246