Year: Present | 2001 | 2000 | 1990s

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General

• Special Joint Series on Missile Issues
  This series of papers on missile proliferation and possible responses continues a collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton. Occasional Paper #7 focuses on international and unilateral control mechanisms, regional perspectives, and implications for space.
  Created 11 July 2001

• U.S.-NATO Relations Regarding Missile Defenses: Concepts, Architectures, and Perspectives
  Washington D.C. Office 2002 Briefing Series, June 15, 2001.
  Created: 2001

• WMD Threats 2001: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration
  Michael Barletta, ed.
  Occasional Paper #6 offers pragmatic guidance for the Bush administration on key nonproliferation issues regarding U.S. foreign relations, nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism, and organizing the U.S. government. It outlines measures to help defend the United States and construct a safer world.
  Created 5 June 2001

• International Perspectives on Missile Proliferation and Defenses
  Scott Parrish, ed.
  Occasional Paper #5 is the first of a new Occasional Paper series devoted to the topic of ballistic missile proliferation. The focus of this series reflects the concern of both centers that the spread of ballistic missiles constitutes one of the most serious and complex nonproliferation challenges today.
  Created 27 April 2001

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Middle East

• Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
  This page includes WMD profiles of 11 countries, regional overviews, and reference tables of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and combat aircraft deployed in this volatile region.
  Updated: September 2001

• Missile Messages: Iran Strikes MKO Bases in Iraq (PDF format)
  A report for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.2.
  by Amin Tarzi and Darby Parliament.
  Created: Summer 2001

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NIS

• U.S. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty: Post-Mortem and Possible Consequences
  An op-ed by Nikolai Sokov.
  Created: 14 December 2001

• Hope for a Strategic Breakthrough at the Bush-Putin Summit
  An op-ed for the International Herald Tribune William Potter and Nikolai Sokov.
  Created: 13 November 2001

• A New Stage of the NMD Debate: A U.S. Proposal and a Russian Response
  This report examines the George W. Bush administration's consideration of broad new proposals to induce Russia's acquiescence to its plan to deploy a national missile defense system (NMD). A report by Nikolai Sokov.
  Created: 31 May 2001

• Russian Missile Defense for Europe: The February 20 Proposal Is More Serious Than It Seems
  "Strangely enough, the new Russian proposal for a European Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system , which Russian Minister of Defense Igor Sergeev gave to NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson on February 20, 2001, did not draw serious attention from the media" A report by Nikolai Sokov.
  Updated: 30 March 2001
  Created: 14 March 2001

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East Asia

• Thunder in the Air: Taiwan and Theater Missile Defense (PDF format)
  A viewpoint for the Nonproliferation Review, CNS, Vol. 8.3.
  by Wei-chin Lee
  Created: Fall-Winter 2001

• Theater Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security
  The growth of missile capabilities in Northeast Asia has led to increased interest in ways of defending against short- and medium-range missiles. However, research, development, and potential deployment of theater missile defense (TMD) systems in Northeast Asia raises a complex set of issues affecting economic, political, and security relations in East Asia and beyond. An issue brief by Evan Medeiros and Phillip Saunders for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
  Created: August 2001

• Ballistic Missile Defense and Northeast Asian Security: Views from Washington, Beijing and Tokyo
  This report presents the content, tone and essence of the discussions conducted during the conference series "Ballistic Missile Defense in Northeast Asia: Implications for Security Relations Among the Regional Powers," which engaged a wide variety of experts from the United States, China and Japan to gain insights on the security implications of US missile defense plans.
  Created: April 18, 2001

• China's Opposition to US Missile Defense Programs
  China has always opposed missile defenses, but its opposition has become more vocal in recent years as the United States has accelerated its national missile defense (NMD) program and sought to expand theater missile defense (TMD) cooperation with Japan and Taiwan. Chinese opposition to US missile defense programs is based on both historical and substantive concerns about the danger of nuclear blackmail, the United States' superpower status, US alliances, Japan's military potential and US military aid to Taiwan.
  Upated: April 2001