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Interview with outgoing executive chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iraq and other disarmament issues.

Factors in the outcome of the US Senate ratification process regarding recent major agreements on strategic nuclear arms and conventional force reductions in Europe.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Pre-World War II efforts towards multilateral control of arms -- I. The humanitarian rules of war -- II. The peace treaties -- III. The naval treaties -- The 1922 Washington Treaty -- The 1930 London Treaty -- The 1936 London Treaty -- IV. Attempts to regulate arms trade and production -- The 1890 Brussels Act -- The 1906 Act of Algeciras -- The 1919 St Germain Convention -- The League of Nations Armaments Year-book -- The 1925 Geneva Convention on the arms trade -- The 1929 proposal for supervision of arms production -- V. Limitation of armaments in Central America -- VI. The First World Disarmament Conference -- Renunciation of war -- Armed forces, armaments and defence expenditures -- Chemical, incendiary and bacteriological warfare -- Arms trade and manufacture -- Verification and sanctions -- Moral disarmament -- Chapter 2. Early United Nations arms control activities -- I. The UN Charter -- II. Nuclear disarmament -- The Baruch Plan -- The Soviet response -- US-Soviet differences -- 'Atoms for Peace' -- III. Limitation of armed forces and armaments -- Soviet and Western approaches -- Soviet and Western disarmament programmes in 1954-55 -- The 1955 Geneva Summit -- IV. Arms control conferences in 1958 -- V. General and complete disarmament -- The principle of balance -- Duration and stages -- Reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments -- Nuclear disarmament -- Verification -- Peace-keeping -- Chapter 3. A review of the obligations in the arms control agreements -- I. Restrictions on nuclear weapon testing -- Partial Test Ban Treaty -- Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty -- Comprehensive test ban -- II. Strategic arms limitation -- ABM Treaty.

Evaluates extent to which arms control agreements are associated with a reduction in arms spending and affect the frequency of military conflict; 1816-1992.

Whether good relations between the US and the Soviet Union was a prerequisite or aftereffect of arms control agreements.

Performer: National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) Project Lead: Kurt Guthe Project Cost: $145,565 FY16–17 ; This project will investigate four historical cases of arms control noncompliance to gain a better understanding of why noncompliance occurs and how it might be prevented or reversed. The problem of noncompliance with arms control agreements tends to receive less attention and analysis than that devoted to the agendas, proposals, negotiations, and verification for these agreements. Results from this study should be of interest to the community of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and academic scholars that deals with arms control issues, as well as to members of the general public, especially in light of media coverage of Russian, Syrian, and potentially Iranian cheating on WMDrelated agreements. ; PASCC