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  • Challenges for Pakistan’s Nuclear Security
    Arms Control Today
    February 28, 2013

    The attack last August against the Kamra military air base in Pakistan reignited concerns about the threat that terrorists could pose to the security of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. There is no doubt that recent attacks on military targets in Pakistan have increased in number and boldness. So far, however, the targets of the attacks have not been military installations that contain nuclear weapons or components.

     
  • Pakistani Security Called Adequate
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    Pakistan’s security is adequate to deal with the recent attacks on its military installations, including a Sept. 5 threat to the Dera Ghazi Khan nuclear complex, according to former Pakistani and U.S. officials.
  • Militants Attack Pakistani Base
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    An Aug. 16 attack on a Pakistani military base by militants has raised concerns about the security of the country’s nuclear weapons, although Pakistani officials denied that nuclear weapons are stored at the base.
  • Swiss Indict Family for Nuclear Smuggling
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    Swiss federal prosecutors indicted three members of the Tinner family Dec. 13 for violating that country’s export control laws and aiding Libya’s nuclear weapons program as part of a major nuclear smuggling ring, following a prolonged investigation that has severely divided the Swiss government.
  • Letter to the Editor: Pakistan’s Conditions for an FMCT
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    Zamir Akram’s comments in his interview with Arms Control Today (“The South Asian Nuclear Balance: An Interview With Pakistani Ambassador to the CD Zamir Akram,” December 2011) signal a potentially important shift in Pakistan’s position on allowing negotiations leading to a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT).
  • The South Asian Nuclear Balance: An Interview With Pakistani Ambassador to the CD Zamir Akram
    Interviews
    December 2, 2011

    As the Pakistani permanent representative to the UN Office at Geneva, Zamir Akram serves as Islamabad’s ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament (CD). He has been a member of the Pakistan Foreign Service since 1978. From 2007 to 2008, he was additional foreign secretary for disarmament and arms control in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • P5 Struggles to Unblock FMCT Talks
    Arms Control Today
    September 30, 2011

    Fulfilling a commitment made at the United Nations in July, the world’s five recognized nuclear-weapon states met in Geneva on Aug. 30 to discuss ways to break the logjam at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on a proposed treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for weapons. However, the states, known as the P5 because they also are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, did not agree to pursue negotiations outside the CD, where Pakistan remains opposed to treaty talks.
  • India, Pakistan Resume Security Dialogue
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2011

    The foreign ministers of nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan met July 27 in New Delhi, resuming their high-level dialogue on security and confidence-building measures for the first time since the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
  • P5 to Take Up Fissile Material Cutoff
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2011

    The five original nuclear-weapon states have agreed to discuss ways to begin negotiations on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for weapons, which is currently being blocked by Pakistan at the UN Conference on Disarmament.
  • Arms Control and Proliferation Profile: Pakistan
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    July 10, 2011

    August 2012
  • Banking on an Outsider: Implications for Escalation Control in South Asia
    Arms Control Today
    June 2, 2011

    Since acquiring nuclear weapons, India and Pakistan have relied on the United States to de-escalate crises. This approach is inherently risky and must be changed.
  • Pakistan Tests Short-Range Missile
    Arms Control Today
    May 3, 2011

    The Pakistani military claimed on April 19 to have successfully tested a 60 kilometer-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, a move that might indicate Islamabad’s intention to develop low-yield nuclear weapons for use on the battlefield.
  • Chinese-Pakistani Reactor Deal Moves Ahead
    Arms Control Today
    April 4, 2011

     

    A planned civilian nuclear deal between China and Pakistan is moving to completion although it has prompted concerns within the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

     
  • The Low Politics of Nonproliferation
    Arms Control Today
    April 4, 2011

    Zia Mian reviews Fallout, Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz’s account of how the CIA recruited the Tinner family as agents inside the Abdul Qadeer Khan network. In addition to adding detail to previous accounts of the Khan network, the book shows how the CIA sought to protect its dominant position in internal U.S. policy debates on Khan’s nuclear smuggling operation and shielded the Tinners from criminal prosecution.
  • Pakistan’s Nuclear Buildup Vexes FMCT Talks
    Arms Control Today
    March 3, 2011

    Pakistan has stiffened its opposition to talks on a fissile material cutoff treaty in the UN Conference on Disarmament, prompting some countries to start looking for new ways to make progress on the pact.