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Since January 2006, Slovakian Ambassador Peter Burian has chaired a UN committee charged with examining the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1540. Unanimously adopted in April 2004, Resolution 1540 requires all states to implement a variety of domestic measures to prevent nonstate actors from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, their means of delivery, & related materials. Adapted from the source document.

President George W. Bush has made fielding missile defenses a priority. In pursuit of this objective, he withdrew the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, has requested nearly $38 billion in missile defense funding since taking office, and last year ordered the deployment of the initial elements of a defense against long-range ballistic missiles. On Sept. 29, Arms Control Today interviewed Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, who oversees the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA), about the current status of and future plans for U.S. anti-missile systems.

Paul Kerr and Miles A. Pomper converse with ElBaradei on how to strengthen the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) prior to the 2005 NPT Review Conference. ElBaradei discusses his seven steps for states-parties to consider at the conference as well as the need for a fissile material cutoff treaty. He also addresses the politics surrounding the fuel cycle issue, the need for nuclear-weapon states to fulfill their Article VI commitments, the applicability of the 13 steps agreed on during the 2000 conference, his plans to serve a third term, issues related to Iran and the Abdul Qadeer Khan proliferation network, the effectiveness of IAEA verification, and the delay of a meeting on a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East.

Sam Nunn has long been a leader in the U.S. national security community. A Democrat from Georgia, Nunn served four terms in the U.S. Senate from 1972 to 1996, including as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is currently co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to reducing the risk of the use and spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Adapted from the source document.

On November 14, Arms Control Today spoke with Ambassador Kislyak about his views on a number of issues in U.S.-Russian strategic relations, including missile defense, future strategic arms reductions, the status of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and Russian views on how to deal with Iran's nuclear program. Adapted from the source document.