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Brian Finlay, senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, argues that although new biotechnologies have yielded tremendous benefits for humanity, they remain a major potential threat to global security. Increasingly, the fundamental challenge of the biotech revolution is to ensure that technologies with a legitimate use in the civilian economy are neither inhibited by overly invasive legal restrictions, nor diverted for nefarious use as bioweapons. Adapted from the source document.

Enthält u.a.: Development and Security Flashpoints in the Middle East: - Water Scarcity - Energy Needs and the Civilian Nuclear Renaissance - Transnational Crime: Illicit Financing, Border Security, Trafficking, and Export Controls - Regional Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ; by Brian Finlay, Johan Bergenas, and Veronica Tessler

In this essay in the special issue on the Sino-Canadian relationship, the author discusses the proliferation of loose, nuclear, biological, & chemical weapons to argue that Canada is well positioned to pilot the rethinking on combating nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War. Analysis of post Cold War nuclear supply & demand in the US & Russia contextualizes the cooperative threat reduction programs & Canadian investment plans. The Canadian role is defined in terms of future cooperative threat reduction through global partnership, defining best practices, & redefining leadership to create new models of threat reduction that can win the hearts & minds of would-be proliferators. J. Harwell

Examines how to plug the gaps in safeguards preventing proliferation of dangerous weapons, materials, and know-how -- such safeguards have been breached, and governments and international organizations must plug the gaps. Since the gap between hard security (proliferation) and soft security (international development and capacity building) objectives is rarely bridged effectively, NATO's experience in defense and dialogue could make it a structure which links non-proliferation and capacity-building. Figures. Adapted from the source document.

Global trends & specific regional problems in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) since the end of the Cold War are examined. In the global economy, increased trade & decreased trade barriers make it harder for states to control weapons & information transfers. Advances in civilian & military weapons have exacerbated the proliferation problem. New proliferations, rogue states, & terrorist organizations do not respond to traditional modes of deterrence. The status of nuclear weapons ability around the world in the big 5 nuclear forces, independent states, & rogue states is reviewed; the US is again considering the use of nuclear weapons. Proliferation of biological & chemical weapons means that large-scale destruction can be accomplished without the expense of nuclear weapons. The US vision of counterproliferation & preemption differs from the focus of the rest of the world on traditional, multilateral nonproliferation. M. Pflum