1. NATO and the Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Author:
- Joseph F. Pilat and David S. Yost
- Publication Date:
- 05-2007
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- NATO Defense College
- Abstract:
- The participants agreed that the NPT is under challenge. Since the late 1990s, there has been growing concern about increasing proliferation dangers, including rogue states and terrorists; cooperation on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) among rogue states; technology diffusion via the Internet as well as through “loose nukes,” materials leakage and brain drain from former Soviet republics, Pakistan and other states and through non-state actors like the A. Q. Khan network; and problems with export controls. The prospects of radiological or nuclear terrorism are seen to be rising; and concern over a proliferation/terrorism nexus after 9/11 has never been higher.
- Topic:
- Security, NATO, International Cooperation, and Nuclear Weapons