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NATO and Nuclear Disarmament: An Analysis of the Obligations of the NATO Allies of the United States
under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

By: Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. and Nicole Deller, J.D.
October 2003
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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Summary and Recommendations
A. Main findings
B. Recommendations

Chapter I. Disarmament Obligations and the NPT
A.NPT Extension Principles and Objectives Established, 1995
B. Article VI Interpretation by the International Court of Justice
C. Article VI Interpretation of the 2000 NPT Review Conference

Chapter II. Assessing NATO States' Compliance with Article VI
A. U.S. Nuclear Policies and Disarmament Obligations
1. A Diminishing Role for Nuclear Weapons in Security Policies
2. The Commitment to Irreversibility and the Moscow Treaty
3. The Commitment to a Test Ban and the CTBT
4. National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty
5. Negative Security Assurances
B. The NPT and Non-Nuclear NATO members
1. NATO Strategy Still Relies on Nuclear Deterrence (1999 Strategic Concept)
2. The U.S. Enduring Reliance on Nuclear Weapons Extends to NATO
3. NATO Members Are Abetting U.S. Rejection of a CTBT
4. NATO Nuclear Sharing Is at Odds with NPT Commitments
5. NATO Strategy Allows for a Possible First Use of Nuclear Weapons

Chapter III. Role of Non-Nuclear NATO Members in Promoting Disarmament

Acknowledgements

Nicole Deller researched and wrote the first draft of the portions of this report dealing with U.S. compliance with its treaty obligations as a follow-up to her work as chief editor and co-author of the Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Apex Press, New York, 2003). Arjun Makhijani participated in writing and editing the entire report.

We would also like to thank Otfried Nassauer, Rebecca Johnson, Oliver Meier, Ron McCoy, and John Loretz (and through them others in IPPNW and PSR) for their comments on various drafts of this report. Of course, as usual, the authors alone are responsible for the contents of this report, including its conclusions and recommendations.

This study is part of IEER's global outreach project. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the program by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the W. Alton Jones Foundation. We would also like to thank IEER's individual donors, as well as Rockefeller Financial Services, Colombe Foundation, Ford Foundation, New Land Foundation, Turner Foundation, and HKH Foundation for general support, part of which was used for this report.

Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D.
Nicole Deller, J.D.
October 2003

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October 2003