December 2004 (Download PDF)

The Challenge of Hiroshima
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Editorial

Proliferation and Security in Northeast Asia

• Japan’s Interests and Policies in Northeast Asia
  Mitsuo Okamoto
• Japan and the US Nuclear Umbrella
  Masao Tomonaga
• Missile Defense and the Two Koreas
  Cheong Wooksik
• The Implications of U.S. Interests and Policies in East Asia
  Wade L. Huntley
• Russian Perceptions and Prospects for Nuclear Weapons Reductions in Northeast Asia
  Eugene Miasnikov
  Report on “Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons”
• China’s Nuclear Policy
  Ye Ru’an
  Missile Defense Test Failed
• Chinese Perspectives on the Prevention of Space Weaponization
  Hui Zhang
• Northeast Asia Regional Security:
  The Role of New Zealand and Australia
  Terence O’Brien
• Model Treaty on the Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
  Hiromichi Umebayashi
• Civil Initiatives for Regional Security
  Kazuhiko Tamaki
  Peace Depot
• The Challenge of Hiroshima: Conference Statement and Program

Challenges for Nuclear Disarmament

• 2004 World Citizenship Award to Mayors for Peace
  Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Emergency Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons
  Tadatoshi Akiba
  2020 Vision – Outline of the Emergency Campaign
• Civil Society Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament
  David Krieger
• Scientists, the Bomb, and the Responsibility for Nuclear Disarmament
  Shoji Sawada
• The Need to Think Ahead About Nuclear Disarmament
  Wolfgang Liebert
  International Control of Tritium for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament
• Missile Control Under a Nuclear Weapons Convention
  Alyn Ware
• Unraveling the NPT
  Regina Hagen
• Why the Conference on Disarmament Still Matters
  David Atwood

Energy and Security

• Energy and Security: From Conflict to Cooperation
  Jürgen Scheffran and Clifford Singer
• India’s Uranium Enrichment Program
  M.V. Ramana
• Another Nuclear White Elephant
  Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar
  Talks Between India and Pakistan
• Possibilities of Applying Nuclear Fusion Technologies to the Development of Nuclear Weapons in Japan
  Tadahiro Katsuta
• Power Grid Interconnection for a Nuclear Free Korean Peninsula
  Jungmin Kang
• Time to Establish an International Sustainable Energy Fund
  Alice Slater

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

• Art or Bioterrorism?
  Margaret E. Kosal
• Non-State Actors and WMD
  Angela Woodward

News and Publications

• Appeal to Support an International Einstein Year 2005
  INES and BITS
• Crude Nukes on the Loose?
• INESAP Annual Report 2003
• Condemnation of the Iraq War

Groupphoto: Participants of the Hiroshima Conference

Impressum

Supplements

• Briefing Paper #12:  (pdf-file ~149kb)
  Chemical Weapons Convention and the Role of Engineers and Scientists
  Jirí Matoušek
• Briefing Paper #13:  (pdf-file ~185kb)
  Moving Beyond Deterrence and Missile Defense: A Case for Building a Regional Missile Limitation Regima in Northeast Asia
  Akira Kurosaki