Read today's nonproliferation news pulled from major news sources including The New York Times, Moscow Times and BBC News, and review analysis by experts from CEIP's Nonproliferation Program.

Visit the nuclear status map and click on a country for a summary of its nuclear status, regime participation and vital statistics. For more detailed information, go to country resources where CEIP compiles recent news, reports, relevant resources and recommended web sites for China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Korean Peninsula, South Asia and Russia.

Read the sixth edition of the Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union, a joint publication between CEIP and CNS, for information on Russia's nuclear arsenal, its stockpile of nuclear materials and the impact of U.S. assistance to reduce the proliferation risks posed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Project is an internationally recognized source of information and analysis on weapons of mass destruction. In Washington and Moscow, Carnegie experts conduct an ongoing program of research, analysis, conferences, and comment.

View fact sheets on biological agents that could be used as weapons including anthrax, botulinum, plague, smallpox and tularemia. Learn more about the public health and medical consequences of deploying these agents and read recommendations by the Johns Hopkins Working Group on Civilian Biodefense on appropriate measures to be taken following such an attack.

Read the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies Working Group's quarterly publication, Biodefense Quarterly.

The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to raise consciousness of medical and public health threats posed by biological weapons, build a knowledge base about the agents and possible responses to them, and catalyze development of effective and practical systems to respond to epidemics.

In an exclusive October 15, 2001, interview with the Nonproliferation Review, senior Bush administration official Ambassador Robert G. Joseph, offers a detailed review of Bush administration policy for confronting weapons of mass destruction. Joseph serves as Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Proliferation Strategies, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense, National Security Council Staff.

Ambassador Joseph's comments cover numerous high-profile issues, including: the new U.S. strategic framework with Russia; the future of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, missile defenses and their impact on China; the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the international nuclear testing moratorium; administration efforts to curtail sensitive Russian exports to Iran, and U.S. nonproliferation programs in Russia.

The Nonproliferation Review is published by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute.

To get an accurate view from inside Russia about nuclear policy, safety, technologies and terrorism, read Nuclear Russia Today, a bi-weekly Russian language online news service. Nuclear Russia Today is a digest of news abstracts from the Russian press and other media, including regional media institutions, news from the closed cities and excerpts from government documents. Topics include nuclear arms issues, nuclear policy, nuclear safety and security, nuclear materials and their physical protection, accounting and control, spent nuclear fuel, nuclear export, export controls, unauthorized access to nuclear materials, nuclear terrorism, nuclear technologies and dual-use technologies.

The PIR Center is a nonprofit, independent, Moscow-based research and public education organization, which was founded in April 1994. The Center is currently focused on international security, arms control, and nonproliferation issues that are directly related to Russia's internal situation.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

For a well-organized tutorial on Chemical and Biological Weapons, go to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) educational module. The interactive online module was jointly created by SIPRI with the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and offers both a professional as well as a simpler student track. It is divided into five sections: an introduction, a section on biological and chemical arms, nonproliferation, disarmament and finally a section on case studies where such agents were used.

SIPRI conducts research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stable peace.

Global Health and Security Initiative

Global Health and Security Initiative is focused on working in two of these critical areas: promoting science security and strengthening global disease durveillance, early detection and rapid response. Go to GHSI web site to read project summaries, reports and related news.

The Global Health and Security Initiative is working around the world to prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats. The initiative develops and implements the biological programs of NTI, a non-profit organization co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn.

The International Council For The Life Sciences

Visit ICLS web site to learn about biosafety and biosecurity conferences and seminars hosted by the organization. Support the ICLS.

Read "Safeguarding advances in the life sciences" by ICLS Director Terence Taylor. This article, published in a special July issue of EMBO Reports, Volume 7, Number S1, thoroughly outlines the challenges biological risks pose to public safety and security and the best approaches in mananaging these risks. 

The International Council for the Life Sciences (ICLS) — a global, membership-based organization — is actively working to safeguard the enormous benefits of the life sciences by encouraging best practices to enhance public safety and security and facilitating partnerships between governments, international inter-governmental organizations and the life sciences community.