Arms Control and Disarmament

• Traditional arms control

– Both conventional and nuclear

– Not managed by IOs

• Disarmamament

– Multilateral

– Categories (landmines, small arms)

– Transparency and norms

WMDs

• Whence WMDs?

• Chemical weapons and the CWC

• Biological weapons and the BTWC

• Similarities - membership, bans

• Differences - monitoring

Nuclear Weapons

• Arms control

• Testing - the PTB and the CTBT

• The NPT

– Technology transfer and eventual disarmament

– The IAEA

– Members - everyone but Cuba, Israel, India, and Pakistan

Terrorism

• Treaties

• IO involvement

– Treaty-making

– Coordination

• Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force

– The Handbook