The UN's Defense(less) Policy By William R. Hawkins

On July 29, the UN Conference on Disarmament opened its third (and final) session of the year in Geneva. The Conference was established in 1979 as “the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community.” It has a work program of four issues: Nuclear disarmament and the prevention of nuclear war (Chile as Coordinator); a “non-discriminatory” and multilateral treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices (Japan as Coordinator); issues related to the prevention of an arms race in outer space (Canada as Coordinator); and discussions on ways to assure non-nuclear weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (Senegal as Coordinator).

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