Routledge handbook of nuclear proliferation and policy.

Introduction. Nuclear proliferation: A future unlike the past? / Joseph E. Pilar and Nathan E. Busch -- The global nuclear enviornment: President Obama's vision amid emerging nuclear threats / Michael Nacht -- Proliferation risks in the Middle East and North Africa / Abdullah Toukan -- Iran / Gregory F. Giles -- Nuclear profileration, deterrence and strategic stability in East Asia: The United States, China and Japan in a changing strategic landscape / Michito Tsuroka -- North Korea's nuclear-weapon program: implications for the nonproliferation regime / Sun Young Ahn and Joel S. Wit -- South Asia: strategic competition and nuclear policies / Feroz Hassan Khan -- India and the global nuclear nonproliferation regime: an assessment / Arvind Gupta and Kapil Patil -- An NPT net assessment: flawed, problematic, and indispensable / Christopher A. Ford -- The future of the NPT and the nuclear nonproliferation regime / Joseph F. Pilat -- The IAEA and international safeguards / Laura Rockwood -- Export controls / Sibylle Bauer -- The comprehensive test ban treaty / Ola Dahlman -- A new path forward for the CTBT / C. Paul Robinson -- Policy and technical issues facing a fissile material (cutoff) treaty / Zia Mian and Frank N. von Hippel -- Deterrence, defense, and preventive war / Michael Rühle -- Couterproliferation and the use of force / Robert S. Litwak -- Security assurances and nuclear nonproliferation / Wyn Q. Bowen and Luca Lentini -- Nuclear forensics / Klaus Mayer and Alexander Glaser -- Interdiction and law enforcement to counter nuclear proliferation / Susan J. Koch -- Economic sanctions in furtherance of nonproliferation goals / Dianne E. Rennack -- Bilateral and multilateral nuclear arms reductions (START / global disarmament) / Steven Pifer -- Nuclear weapon-free zones / Susan Burk -- Latin America's raod to a region free of nuclear weapons / Rafael Mariano Grossi -- The WMD-free zone in the Middle East: where is it heading? / Mohamed I. Shaker -- Renunciation: restraint and rollback / Benoît Pelopidas -- The role of technology in monitoring and verification / Jacques Bouchard -- Nuclear power and proliferation / Tatsujiro Suzuki -- Advances in proliferation resistant technologies and procedures / Yusuke Kuno -- Multinational approaches to teh nuclear fuel cycle / John Carlson -- Reducing the risks of nuclear theft and terrorism / Matthew Bunn and Nickolas Roth -- Industry efforts to address nuclear security / Roger Howsley -- Illicit trafficking in nuclear materials: assessing the past two decades / Lyudmila Zaitseva -- Cooperative threat reduction and its lessons / Andrew C. Weber and Anya Erokhina.

This new Handbook is a comprehensive examination of the rich and complex issues of nuclear proliferation in the early twenty-first century. The futures of the decades-long effort to prevent the further spread of weapons of mass destruction is at a crossroads today. If international nonproliferation efforts are to be successful, an intergrated, multi-tiered response will almost cerainly be necessary. A serious, thorough, and clear-eyed examination of the range of threats, challenges, and opportunities facing the international community is a necessary first step. This Handbook, which presents the most up-to-date analysis and policy recommendations on these criticial issues by recognized, leading scholars in the field, intends to provide such an examination. -- Publisher.