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Analyses public policy for global security; covers Arms Sales Monitoring, Biological Weapons, CyberStrategy, Intelligence Reform, Military Analysis, Monitoring Emerging Diseases, Nuclear Weapons, Secrecy and Government and Space Policy.
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Federation of American Scientists ...Foster research, teaching, and public discussion of military and strategic issues of national and international significance. Research activities on military history and the strategic analysis of defence operations, peace-keeping, and arms control.
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwmsds/
Message to the General Assembly of the United Nations stating that disarmament efforts cannot concern only some countries or be centered one type of weapon.
http://www.cin.org/jp2ency/disarm.html
Responsible for the missions of arms control, nonproliferation, and political-military affairs. Merged with the former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Many fact sheets, treaties and reports.
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/bureaunp.html
Articles on nuclear, biological, and terrorism. Copywrited in 1999 by The Acronym Institute. Disarmament Diplomacy, published since January 1996, is the successor journal to Nuclear Proliferation News.
http://www.acronym.org.uk/
Research projects, databases and publications about the global proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction. Monterey Institute of International Studies provides training on nonproliferation issues.
http://cns.miis.edu/
A first-rank research center, with support from the Swedish government. Arms and military research areas including publications and database.
http://www.sipri.se/
German based organization providing independent expertise on military security issues, especially in the field of nuclear and conventional disarmament and arms control, non-proliferation, and NATO-Russian relations.
http://www.bits.de
Information and analysis for peace and environmental activists. Provides WSLF publications, government documents on nuclear weapons policy and related topics, and web links.
http://www.wslfweb.org/
Provides information and advice on topical defense, foreign and security policy questions that affect Europe, especially within European security institutions. CESD was established in 1993, evolving from the NATO Alerts Network.
http://www.cesd.org/
United Nations information on disarmament. Links from Yale University Library.
http://www.library.yale.edu/un/un3b1.htm
Applied-physics research for automatic sensor systems which could be used in the verification of disarmament and peace-keeping.
http://www.ep3.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bvp/index.html
Enhances global security by fighting nuclear terrorism and proliferation, preventing war, reducing defense spending, restraining arms trading, cleaning up radioactive waste, and banning landmines.
http://www.ploughshares.org
Verification as a means of ensuring confidence in the implementation of treaties or other agreements in areas of peace, security, arms control, disarmament and the environment.
http://www.vertic.org/
An independent source of facts and analysis on all aspects of nuclear, chemical, biological weapons and missile proliferation. Links for resources, news and related issues.
http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/
ISIS based in London, provides information and briefings on important issues particularly weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and humanitarian intervention.
http://www.isisuk.demon.co.uk/
Links to disarmament topics including: Canadian National Authority, Chemical Weapons Convention, Canadian Disarmament Digest. Comments on Canadian Disarmament Policy. (Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/ni-ka/peace/disarm-e.asp
Policy oversight for the missions of arms control, nonproliferation, and political-military affairs. Merged with the former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Many fact sheets, treaties and reports.
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/bureauac.html
Published under the auspices of the NGO Committee on Disarmament to report on disarmament developments in the U.N. system.
http://www.igc.apc.org/disarm/fPubls.htm
National nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding and support for effective arms control policies.
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Arms Control Association If you find our resources useful, please consider joining or making a contribution. Arms Control Today encourages reprint of its articles with permission of the Editor. 2005 Arms Control Association, 1150 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 620 Washington, DC 20036 Tel...Press releases, status updates, and statements on current on UN disarmament activities.
http://disarmament.un.org/
Provides resources, analysis, policy initiatives and public education to help bring about a world free of nuclear arms.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/index.cfm
Provides information, news, events, discussions and publications related to problems of arms reduction. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology site.
http://www.armscontrol.ru/
Campaigns for United Nations to implement Charter article 26 by agreeing to reduce the diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources by a set percentage each year. Provides reports, books, letters and event information.
http://www.action-for-un-renewal.org.uk/pages/archome.htm
A private voluntary organization based at the UN providing services and facilities to citizens' groups concerned with the peace and disarmment activities of the United Nations.
http://disarm.igc.org/
NGO offering analysis on global issues relating to peace, security, and the world economy. Includes overview, publications, and events.
http://www.ecaar.org/
A network of campaigning and research organisations that are opposed to the development of a Missile Defense system and to any UK involvement in a United States or European missile defense system.
http://www.mdwg.org.uk/