Resource Type:

Report-Paper

Posted On: Aug 06, 2008

Posted By: Hillary Eschenburg

URL:

http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/nonproliferation/articles/arms_control_memo_mccain_obama/

Description:

Organization: The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Author: Jeff Lindemyer

Written in the format of a message to the next President, the author outlines the following steps to be taken to promote nonproliferation:

• negotiate a treaty and other measures to ban space weapons;
• promote universalization of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), advancement of its confidence building measures, and enhancement of its Implementation Support Unit, and to open negotiations on a compliance mechanism;
• ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT);
• pursue a legally binding follow-on agreement to the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) that includes verification and transparency elements as well as reductions in the nuclear force levels below those contained in SORT.