George Bunn, former General Counsel to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, senior U.S. legal advisor during the drafting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and former LAWS Director, describes further developments and outlines additional obstacles in the implementation of the U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.

Re-START: Legal Options to Extend a Nuclear Verification Regime
By Tom McNutt, LAWS Legal Assistant
July 30, 2007

With tensions raised again between Russia and the United States thanks to the proposed European missile shield, nuclear transparency becomes more important than ever. In this article, LAWS and WSI Legal Research Assistant Tom McNutt explains how the two sides can come together to renew the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and what happens if they don't.

Nuclear Disarmament: Have Russia and the U.S. promised to achieve it?
By Philip A. Fleming, LAWS President
June 15, 2007

This article examines the implications of Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons' (NPT) and its call to undertake good faith negotiations towards disarmament. It introduces a republication of a 1994 writing by George Bunn and Roland Timerbaev, two chief legal advisors in the drafting of the NPT, who served the two largest nuclear weapons powers during those negotiations. [Click on the headline above to read the introductory article, and click here to read a 19-page PDF of the 1994 article "Nuclear Disarmament: How Much Have the Five Nuclear Powers Promised in the Non-Proliferation Treaty?" (PDF). Referenced by the article, but absent from this PDF version, are appendices setting out the text of the NPT and its parties. Click here to read the NPT text provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (PDF) and click here to read a current list of NPT parties (broken up across multiple web pages) provided by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs.]

Ensure Nuclear Cooperation with India Is Consistent with the Law
By Philip A. Fleming, LAWS President
May 24, 2007

As LAWS President Philip A. Fleming explains, the following letter to Members of Congress and Senators signed by a number of nuclear nonproliferation experts, including two former LAWS Board members and a former LAWS chairman, criticizes the Administration's apparent departure from policies set by Congress in the Administration's negotiations with India concerning proposed US nuclear assistance to India despite India's acquisition and continuing development of nuclear weapons. Click on the headline above to read his commentary ... 

New U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement Delayed: Indefinitely?
By George Bunn
April 18, 2007

George Bunn, former General Counsel to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, senior U.S. legal advisor during the drafting of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and former LAWS Director, examines the latest status of the U.S.-India nuclear deal, and possible obstacles ahead, and revisits some of the concerns lying at the heart of the arrangement. Click on the headline above to read his commentary ... 

Project for Nuclear Awareness (LAWS-PNA) March 28, 2007, Conference and Dinner in Washington, D.C., featuring Hans Blix

The Project for Nuclear Awareness (PNA), LAWS' former Philadelphia chapter, and a collaboration of LAWS, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, the Global Security Institute, the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and Physicians for Social Responsibility, are hosting a March 28, 2007, conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., including a dinner featuring as keynote speaker former IAEA Director-General Hans Blix.