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Council Special Report No. 54 Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Author: Paul Lettow

Violations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty by Iran and North Korea threaten to undermine the legitimacy of the nonproliferation regime. Paul Lettow proposes a comprehensive agenda for improvements, including tougher sanctions against transgressors, a criteria-based system to limit the spread of enrichment and processing technologies, and expansion of International Atomic Energy Agency authority.

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What Is Needed to Ensure the Long Term Survival of the Regime?

Speakers: Jonathan Granoff, Jan M. Lodal, and Jonathan Schell
Presider: Charles D. Ferguson

Policymakers, analysts, and expert observers gathered in Washington, DC, for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Workshop on Evaluating and Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime. Over the course of three sessions, workshop participants addressed these and other questions about the overall health of the nonproliferation regime, and how to improve it over the near and long terms.

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What Should Be Done in the Near Term to Strengthen the Nonproliferation Regime?

Speakers: Dennis Gormley, Paul Lettow, Lawrence Scheinman, and Henry Sokolski
Presider: Charles D. Ferguson

Policymakers, analysts, and expert observers gathered in Washington, DC, for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Workshop on Evaluating and Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime. Over the course of three sessions, workshop participants addressed these and other questions about the overall health of the nonproliferation regime, and how to improve it over the near and long terms.

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What Is the Overall Health of the Nonproliferation Regime?

Speakers: Joseph Cirincione and Scott D. Sagan
Presider: Charles D. Ferguson

Policymakers, analysts, and expert observers gathered in Washington, DC, for the Council on Foreign Relations' Workshop on Evaluating and Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime. Over the course of three sessions, workshop participants addressed these and other questions about the overall health of the nonproliferation regime, and how to improve it over the near and long terms.

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Strengthening The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

Speakers: Charles Ferguson, Christopher A. Ford, and Paul Lettow
Presider: Henry Sokolski

What stake does the United States have in the global nonproliferation regime as it currently exists? What are the risks and rewards of bilateral arrangements with countries such as India?  How can loopholes in the NPT be closed? Should the United States ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty? What are the lessons of voluntary initiatives, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative, for a coalition approach to nonproliferation?

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