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Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms

A report from the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC)

On June 1, 2006, Dr. Hans Blix, chairman of the WMD Commission Chairman presented the Commission's report to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The full report is available on the WMDC website.

CNS researchers contributed numerous papers and studies to the proceedings of the Commission. All of these are available on the WMDC website:

• "Improvised Nuclear Devices and Nuclear Terrorism," by Charles D Ferguson and William C Potter

• "Article IV of the NPT: Background, Problems, Some Prospects," by Lawrence Scheinman

• "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: Still a Useful Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Tool?" by Scott Parrish and Jean du Preez

• "Practical Measures to Reduce the Risks Presented by Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons," by William C Potter and Nikolai Sokov

• "The Future of a Treaty Banning Fissile Material for Weapons Purposes: Is It Still Relevant?" byJean du Preez

• "The Global Governance of "Contentious" Science. The Case of the World Health's Organizations Oversight of the Small Pox Virus Research," by Jonathan B Tucker and Stacy M Okutani

• "Bioterrorism and Threat Assessment," by Gary A. Ackerman and Kevin S. Moran

• "On Not Confusing the Unfamiliar with the Improbable: Low-Technology Means of Delivering Weapons of Mass Destruction," by Dennis M. Gormley

• "Nuclear Threat Perceptions and Nonproliferation Responses: A Comparative Analysis," by Scott Parrish and William C Potter