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Terms of Reference
Conclusions and recommendations
1 Introduction
Background
Terms of reference
Conduct of inquiry
National Security Strategy
2 The Government's approach to non-proliferation
The EU
The role of the US and NATO
Restricting the resources required for proliferation
Export control regimes
The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
Personnel: the UK's ATAS scheme
Finance
Scope for rationalisation of the non-proliferation architecture
3 Nuclear weapons
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
The NPT's successes
Nuclear weapons proliferation
Iran's nuclear programme
Other challenges to the non-proliferation system
Verification of the NPT and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Enforcement of the NPT
Universalisation of the NPT
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
US-Russia nuclear weapons control
UK nuclear arsenal
'Global Zero'
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
The Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT)
Internationalising the nuclear fuel cycle
4 Biological and chemical weapons
Biological and chemical weapons: the threat
Definitions of biological and chemical weapons
Recent and historical uses of biological and chemical weapons
Control of chemical and biological weapons
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Universality
Implementation of the CWC
Destruction of existing chemical weapons
Compliance with the CWC
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)
Implementation of the BTWC: the absence of verification
Non-compliance with the BTWC
Strengthening the BTWC
The BTWC and CWC and new technologies
Non-lethal biological and chemical weapons
5 Ballistic missiles and missile defence
Action against ballistic missile proliferation
Ballistic missile defence (BMD)
6 Terrorism and physical security
The threat posed by terrorists and weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Nuclear weapons
Biological and chemical weapons
Ballistic missiles
Initiatives against terrorist acquisition of WMD
G8 Global Partnership/UK Global Threat Reduction Programme
UN Security Council Resolution 1540
The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT)
International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
Physical security
Nuclear materials
Biological and chemical materials
7 Conventional weapons
Impact on global security
Success outside the UN framework: cluster munitions and landmines
Cluster munitions
Landmines
The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Feasibility of an ATT
Enforcement of an ATT
Scope of an ATT
Standards to be defined in an ATT
The future of negotiations towards an ATT
The role of NGOs and the defence industry
The future relationship between an ATT and existing non-proliferation initiatives
8 Taking stock of Government strategy
The rules-based approach
Arguments against a rules-based approach
The treatment of different weapons types
A holistic approach to disarmament and non-proliferation
Annex
Abbreviations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
Reports and Evidence from the Foreign Affairs Committee since 2005
Oral and Written Evidence
5 November 2008 19 November 2008 26 November 2008 28 January 2009 4 February 2009 Written Evidence