Bilateral agreements providing negative security assurances to states party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [Negative Security Assurances]

Technical Report · Wed May 09 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7156719· OSTI ID:7156719

Carnahan, B

After several years of quiescence, it appears that the issue of negative security assurances will become a more prominent and contentious issue during and after the 1990 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. During the negotiation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation, the non-nuclear weapon states maintained that the Treaty should include negative security assurances from the nuclear weapons states, promising that the non-nuclear weapon states would not be subject to nuclear attack if they ratified the NPT. Such assurances were not included in the NPT, but the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union undertook to deal with the issue in some other form. The issue of negative security assurances remains linked to the NPT regime, however, and has been considered at prior NPT Review Conferences. This document discusses the political and military aspects of this issue.

• Research Organization: Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-88DP50066
• OSTI ID: 7156719
• Report Number(s): DOE/DP/50066-T8; ON: DE90012715
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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