Question
What are the key points you want the class to note from your readings on the former USSR region? What about the case of South Africa? Why do you think there was so much progress globally on constraining WMD programs? (Note: it is not JUST that the Cold War ended. That had little impact on places like Brazil, Argentina or South Africa).
References and readings
• William C. Potter, “The Politics of Nuclear Renunciation: The Cases of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine,” Occasional Paper, Henry L. Stimson Center. (PDF)
https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Occasional%20Paper%20No.%2022%20April%201995.pdf
• Frank V. Pabian, “South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Lessons for U.S. Nonproliferation Policy,” Nonproliferation Review, Fall 1995 (PDF).
• Waldo Stumpf, “The Birth and Death of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program,”
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/rsa/nuke/stumpf.htm
• International Panel on Fissile Materials, “Presentation of Global Fissile Materials Report 2015.” (PDF)
http://fissilematerials.org/library/ipfm15.pdf
• Mary Beth D. Nikitin and Amy F. Woolf, “The Evolution of Cooperative Threat Reduction: Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service, June 2014 (PDF)
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R43143.pdf
• Biological Weapons in the Former Soviet Union: An Interview with Dr. Kenneth Alibeck,” Non-proliferation Review, Spring/Summer 1999 (PDF)
• Dr. Stephen Burgess, Dr. Helen Purkitt, The Rollback of South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Program, USAF Counter proliferation Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 2001. (PDF)
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2001/southafrica.pdf
