CANADA AND THE NUCLEAR CHALLENGE:
REDUCING THE POLITICAL VALUE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairsand
International Trade
Bill Graham, M.P.
Chair
December 1998
Table of Contents
Chapter
1: The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
RAISING
THE STAKES
REDUCING
THE POLITICAL VALUE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PURSUING
A CANADIAN APPROACH
THE
DOMESTIC DILEMMAS OF CIVILIAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
Chapter
2: The Nuclear-Weapons-Capable States
THE
UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA
THE
UNITED STATES
RUSSIA
THE
UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE AND CHINA
INDIA,
ISRAEL AND PAKISTAN
Chapter
3: Preventing the Proliferation of Nuclear and Other ``Weapons of Mass
Destruction''
"WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION"
THE
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME
Chapter
4: Nato and Nuclear Weapons
REGIONAL
AND GLOBAL SECURITY
COLD
WAR NUCLEAR POLICIES
POST-COLD
WAR NUCLEAR POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
A
NEW NATO
AN
ALLIANCE NUCLEAR RE-EXAMINATION
THE
CASE FOR CHANGE
UPDATING
THE STRATEGIC CONCEPT
Chapter
5: Conclusion: The Road to the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Appendix
A - Letter from General Lee Butler (USAF, Ret.)
Appendix
B - Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
Appendix
D - Meetings in Washington, D.C. and New York
Appendix
E - List of Submissions