Resource Type:

Report-Paper

Posted On: Dec 04, 2008

Posted By: Heather Hamilton

URL:

http://www.ploughshares.org/security_book/view_book.html

Description:

The 2009 Peace and Security Initiative National Security and Non-Proliferation Briefing Book is an effort to address the most important and pressing proliferation and national security challenges that the Obama administration will face.  Authors include leaders and issue experts in the peace and security community from both inside and outside the Beltway, and from both sides of the aisle.

The book is organized into sections ranging from weapons reduction and control of fissile materials to reducing the dangers of nuclear terrorism and the challenges of Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear aspirations. Each briefing paper includes background material,talking points, the present state of play, and recommendations and policy options for the next president. While the principal focus of the book is nonproliferation and nuclear weapons, these issues do not exist in a vacuum. Consequently, there are also sections on related regional issues, such as Iraq, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan, Russia, and China, and other substantive issues, including government organization for national security, missile defense, weapons in space, biological and chemical weapons, conventional weapons, and homeland security.

Authors and Reviewers
* indicates peer reviewer
►Rand Beers (National Security Network): Introduction:  Assumptions, Goals, Framing
►Bruce Blair (World Security Institute): De-Alerting:  Taking Nuclear Weapons Off Alert
►Barry Blechman (Henry L. Stimson Center): World Free of Nuclear Weapons
*►Shervin Boloorian (Union of Concerned Scientists):  Iran
►Matthew Bunn (Harvard University): Fissile Material Control and Threat Reduction
►Philip Coyle (Center for Defense Information): Missile Defense
*►David Culp (Friends Committee on National Legislation): Building a New Generation of Nuclear Weapons and Rebuilding the Nuclear Weapons Complex
►Clark Ervin (The Aspen Institute): U.S. Homeland Security
*►Martin Fleck (Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World):  World Free of Nuclear Weapons
*►Charles Ferguson (Council on Foreign Relations):  Fissile Material Control and Nuclear Terrorism
*►Ambassador Robert L. Gallucci (Georgetown University): North Korea
*►Gen. Robert Gard (USA-ret.) (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation):  Missile Defense
►Bates Gill (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute): U.S.-China Relations
►Susan Gordon (Alliance for Nuclear Accountability): Building a New Generation of Nuclear Weapons and Rebuilding the Nuclear Weapons Complex
►Ambassador Tom Graham: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
►William Hartung (Arms and Security Initiative, New America Foundation): Arms Sales and Security Assistance; Conventional Weapons Issues
*►David Heyman (Center for Strategic and International Studies): U.S. Homeland Security
►Theresa Hitchens (Center for Defense Information): Weapons in Space
*►Pervez Hoodbhoy (Quaid-e-Azam University):  Afghanistan and Pakistan
*►John Isaacs (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation):  Introduction
*►R. Aura Kanegis (American Friends Service Committee):  Reorganizing the Government to Deal with National Security Challenges
►Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Association): START I extension and Nuclear Weapons Reductions; CTBT
*►Rachel Kleinfeld (Truman National Security Project): Afghanistan and Pakistan
►Larry Korb (with Laura Conley) (Center for American Progress): Iraq War
*►Lora Lumpe (U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines): Conventional Weapons Issues; Arms Sales and Security Assistance
►Kenneth Luongo (Partnership for Global Security): U.S-Russia Relations
►Zia Mian (Princeton University): Afghanistan and Pakistan
► Ivan Oelrich (Federation of American Scientists): North Korea
*►Alan Pearson (Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation): Biological and Chemical Weapons
*►George Perkovich (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace):  World Free of Nuclear Weapons
*►Nickolas Roth (Alliance for Nuclear Accountability): Commercial Fuel Reprocessing and GNEP
*►Victoria Samson (Center for Defense Information):  De-Alerting; Missile Defense
►Matt Schroeder (Federation of American Scientists): Conventional Weapons Issues (e.g., cluster munitions)
*►Douglas Shaw (Booze Allen Hamilton):  START I and nuclear weapons reductions
*►Jacqueline Shire (Institute for Science and International Security): Iran
*►Susan Shirk (Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSD): U.S.-China Relations
►Sharon Squassoni (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): U.S. – India Nuclear Agreement
►Leonor Tomero (Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation): Commercial Spent Fuel Reprocessing, GNEP; U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement
*►Frank von Hippel (Princeton University): Commercial Fuel Reprocessing and GNEP
►Paul Walker (Global Green USA): Biological and Chemical Weapons; U.S.-Russia Relations
►Jim Walsh (Massachusetts Institute for Technology): Iran