No End in Sight

The global threat posed by weapons of mass destruction is one of today's key policy issues. Using a wide variety of sources, including recently declassified information, Nathan E. Busch scrutinizes the nuclear programs of the United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, and India. He analyzes the emerging nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea, nations whose possession and maintenance of nuclear weapons could present serious cause for international concern. Busch also discusses the nuclear weapons program discovered in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, the controversies over the continued existence of that program before the 2003 Iraq War, and the discoveries that have followed the toppling of the Ba'athist regime.

Nathan E. Busch is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Public Affairs at Christopher Newport University.