The Nonproliferation Review is a refereed journal concerned with the causes, consequences, and control of the spread of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons. The Review features case studies, theoretical analyses, reports, and policy debates on such issues as state-run weapons programs, treaties and export controls, terrorism, and the economic and environmental effects of weapons proliferation.

To provide a representation of the work in journal over the past twenty years, the Editor, Stephen Schwartz has selected one article from each of the volumes.

View the full list of articles below, all of which are freely available until the end of the year 2014.

The Nonproliferation Review

• The Problem of Weak Nuclear States

  • Volume 20
  • William Walker and Nicholas J. Wheeler

• The Proliferation Risks of Gas Centrifuge Enrichment at the Dawn of the NPT: Shedding Light on the Negotiating History

  • Volume 19
  • John Krige

• Ballistic Trajectory: The Evolution of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Market

  • Volume 18
  • Joshua Pollack

• Organized Crime and the Trafficking of Radiological Materials: The Case of Georgia

  • Volume 17
  • Alexander Kupatadze

• Nuclear Weapons as the Currency of Power: Deconstructing the Fetishism of Force

  • Volume 16
  • Anne Harrington de Santana

• Nuclear Terrorism and the Global Politics of Civilian HEU Elimination

  • Volume 15
  • William C. Potter

• Debating Disarmament: Interpreting Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

  • Volume 14
  • Christopher A. Ford

• Countering Proliferation: Insights from Past “Wins, Losses, and Draws”

  • Volume 13
  • Lewis A. Dunn

• Does Intent Equal Capability? Al-Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction

  • Volume 12
  • Sammy Salama and Lydia Hansell

• The Israeli Bombing of Osiraq Reconsidered: Successful Counterproliferation?

  • Volume 11
  • Jeremy Tamsett

• Project Vinca: Lessons for Securing Civil Nuclear Material Stockpiles

  • Volume 10
  • Philipp C. Bleek

• Misapplied Lessons? 9/11 and the Iraq Debate

  • Volume 9
  • Jeffrey W. Knopf

• Ending the Production of Highly Enriched Uranium for Naval Reactors

  • Volume 8
  • Chunyan Ma and Frank von Hippel

• Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option, 1949-1999

  • Volume 7
  • Jacques E.C. Hymans

• Giving Nonproliferation Norms Teeth: Sanctions and the NPPA

  • Volume 6
  • Randy J. Rydell

• Israel and the Evolution of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy: The Critical Decade (1958-1968)

  • Volume 5
  • Avner Cohen

• Is There a Theory of Nuclear Proliferation? An Analysis of the Contemporary Debate

  • Volume 4
  • Tanya Ogilvie-White

• Monitoring and Verification in a Noncooperative Environment: Lessons from the U.N. Experience in Iraq

  • Volume 3
  • Jonathan B. Tucker

• Enriched Uranium versus Plutonium: Proliferation Preferences in the Choice of Fissile Material

  • Volume 2
  • Joel Ullom

• The IAEA’s Role in Nuclear Arms Control: Its Evolution and Future Prospects

  • Volume 1
  • Roland Timerbaev and Susan Welsh

Video Interview with The Nonproliferation Review Editor Stephen Schwartz