Prague as the Nonproliferation Pivot

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Paul Bracken, “The Structure of the Second Nuclear Age,” Orbis 47, no. 3 (Summer 2003): pages 399–413. 2. Paul Bracken, “The Structure of the Second Nuclear Age,” Orbis 47, no. 3 (Summer 2003): pages 399–413. 3. See for example, Harald Muller, “Between Power and Justice: Current Problems and Perspectives of the NPT Regime,” Strategic Analysis 34, no. 2 (2010), pp. 189–201, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09700160903542740; K. Subrahmanyam, “Elimination or Irrelevance”, Arms Control Today, June 2008, http://www.armscontrol.org/print/2936; Alexander Nikitin, ed., Lessons to be Learned from Non-proliferation Failures and Successes (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2009); Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro, eds., Slaying the Nuclear Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012). 4. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by President Barack Obama,” (Prague, April 5, 2009), http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Barack-Obama-In-Prague-As-Delivered. 5. George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn, “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007, online.wsj.com/article/SB116787515251566636.htmlShare. 6. Josef Joffe and James W. Davis, “Less Than Zero: Bursting the New Disarmament Bubble,” Foreign Affairs 90, no. 1 (January/February 2011): page 8; for a considered and agnostic view on the linkage, see Jeffrey W. Knopf, “Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation: Examining the Linkage Argument,” International Security 37, no. 3 (Winter 2012-13): pages 92–132. 7. See the text of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton in May 1998 after India conducted nuclear tests; “Indian's Letter to Clinton on the Nuclear Testing,” New York Times, May 13, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/13/world/nuclear-anxiety-indian-s-letter-to-clinton-on-the-nuclear-testing.html. 8. For a comprehensive American essay on this issue, and responses from the nonaligned world, see Steven E. Miller, Nuclear Collisions: Discord, Reform & the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime, (Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012). 9. For early and critical insights, see Steven E. Miller, “Skepticism Triumphant: The Bush Administration and the Waning of Arms Control,” La Revue Internationale et Strategique, (May 2003), http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/miller_paris.pdf. 10. For further discussion, see Robert Ayson, “Arms control in Asia: yesterday's concept for today's region,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 67, no. 1, (2013), pp. 1–17; Lavina Lee, “Beyond Symbolism: The U.S. Nuclear Disarmament Agenda and its Implications for Chinese and Indian Nuclear Policy,” CATO Policy Briefing, No. 91 (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, February 2011); Andrew O'Neil, “Extended Nuclear Deterrence in East Asia: Redundant or Resurgent?” International Affairs 87, no. 6 (November 2011), pp. 1439–1457. 11. John Mueller, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to al Qaeda, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 12. Robert H. Johnson, Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After, (New York: St. Mrtin's Press, 1994). 13. Francis J. Gavin, “Same as it ever was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation and the Cold War,” International Security 34, no. 3 (Winter 2009/2010): page 9. 14. President Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address. 15. For a discussion see David E. Hoffman, “Is nuclear arms control dead?” Foreign Policy, January 22, 2013, http://hoffman.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/22/is_nuclear_arms_control_dead. 16. Rory Medcalf and Fiona Cunningham, eds, Disarming Doubt: The Future of Extended Deterrence in East Asia, (Sydney: Lowy Institute, 2012): page 13. Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. Raja MohanC. Raja Mohan heads the Strategic Studies Program at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, is adjunct professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, and is a non-resident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He is also a member of TWQ's editorial board