Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation A New Grand Bargain

• Proposes a new conceptual and legal framework for ensuring the global security of nuclear weapons and fissile material
• Provides an analysis of the reasons for the breakdown of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and includes the author's prescriptive elaboration of a new foundation for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons
• Includes an analysis of how to achieve counterproliferation empowerment of nuclear forensics, through international intelligence, export-import controls, multi-internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, and interdiction of transport
• Shows how the proposed new foundation for nuclear weapons counterproliferation would serve to reduce nuclear weapons risk in relation to the principal nuclear weapons hotspots that today threaten global security, including most particularly Iran/Israel, the North Korean nuclear threat, Pakistan's nuclear security and its nuclear confrontation with India
• Analysis of how the proposed new foundation for nuclear weapons counterproliferation would serve to reduce nuclear weapons risk in relation to the principal nuclear weapons hotspots that today threaten global security, including most particularly Iran/Israel, the North Korean nuclear threat, Pakistan's nuclear security and its nuclear confrontation with India

Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on which we can no longer rely for global nuclear security. 

First, Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation defines the distinctively dangerous character of contemporary nuclear risk and explains why the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty no longer provides a viable foundation for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. It then sets out the reforms needed in order to limit the radical increase in availability, for rogue governments and terrorists, of nuclear weapons related material and technology. Garvey then proposes a new counterproliferation architecture, to be built on presently available scientific, legal, and institutional resources, which could achieve a critical reduction of nuclear risk and an expanded deterrence. Guiding principles for establishing this new architecture are formulated, including, most importantly, the principal mechanism for implementation, a proposed United Nations Security Council Counterproliferation Resolution applying equally for all states. 

This book presents what may be our best opportunity to secure a profoundly more effective global nuclear security and counter the world's current course to a catastrophic nuclear detonation.

Readership: Scholars and students of international law, political science, foreign relations, and strategic studies. Governmental and non-governmental organizations, and foundations concerned with nuclear weapons and related issues.