Reaching Critical Will

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

Conference on Disarmament

General Assembly First Committee

UN Disarmament Commission

Special Session on Disarmament

Beyond arms control: challenges and choices for nuclear disarmament
Reaching Critical Will of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

soft cover • 296 pages • March 2010
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CONTENTS

Introduction
Ray Acheson

PART I: CHALLENGES

1. Rhetoric vs. reality: the political economy of nuclear weapons and their elimination
Darwin BondGraham, Jacqueline Cabasso, Nicholas Robinson, Will Parrish, and Ray Acheson

2. NATO nuclear sharing: an anachronistic obstacle to nuclear disarmament and regional security
Martin Butcher and Nicola Butler

3. US-UK nuclear sharing: deterring disarmament
John Ainslie

4. Nuclear energy: shackling progress toward a nuclear weapon free world

5. The US-India nuclear deal: violating norms, terminating futures
Andrew Lichterman and M.V. Ramana

6. Nuclear futures for the Middle East: impact on the goal of a weapons of mass destruction
Merav Datan

7. Iran's challenge to the nuclear order
Michael Veiluva

8. Missiles, missile defence, and space weapons
Jürgen Scheffran, Ray Acheson, and Andrew Lichterman

PART II: CHOICES

9. Dismantling discourses: nuclear weapons and human security
Jacqueline Cabasso and Ray Acheson

10. The relevance of gender for eliminating weapons of mass destruction
Carol Cohn with Felicity Hill and Sara Ruddick

11. Reaching nuclear disarmament
John Burroughs

12. A nuclear weapons convention: framework for a nuclear weapon free world
John Loretz, Jürgen Scheffran, Alyn Ware, and Tim Wright

13. Toward a fissile material (cut-off) treaty
Zia Mian

14. Learn, adapt, succeed: potential lessons from the Ottawa and Oslo processes for other disarmament and arms control challenges
John Borrie, Maya Brehm, Silvia Cattaneo, and David Atwood

Endnotes

Selected Bibliography and Suggested Reading