The Eurasia Center's new program for Disarmament and Security brings together arms control experts from around the globe to work on the most important questions of war, international security, and how to bring about real progress in disarmament, nonproliferation, and threat reduction. The Eurasia Center has produced a number of fine arms control publications over years, which have covered developments in the strategic and conventional balance of power in the post-Cold War world. Naturally, in the post-9/11 world there is much more to work on in terms of defeating terrorism and trying to seek ways to promote security at home in the United States. Our experts offer important solutions to the problems confronting US security both here and abroad, but more importantly offering important recommendations for building true security throughout for our allies and with other countries in Eurasia (Europe and Asia).

Although there has been a significant number in the reductions of nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia/FSU states, the Center's position is that not enough has been done in this area in the past decade and there will be further delays, coupled with new plans for building even more effective strategic weapons. These developments will rob the world of an opportunity for true security. The current destructive potential of U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals, as well as other nuclear nations, is enough to annihilate large portions of the globe. This is clearly dangerous and unacceptable. By clearly offering the world a serious strategic plan to reduce nuclear weapons, both the US and Russia will have evidence to show the new nations of the world seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and material that both the US and Russia are serious about fulfilling their obligations under the NPT Treaty. Therefore, they would have the proper justification to block new nations from trying to acquire nuclear weapons and material.

The Center's nuclear specialists have raised important proliferation concerns by exploring today's dangers associated with the growing number of nuclear weapons states. The proliferation of nuclear weapons states, to include India and Pakistan, occurred without a strong condemnation from the U.S. Other nations seeking nuclear weapons now have a bad example to emulate. The delays of solving the nuclear stalemate with North Korea and Iran are also placing further strains on international security in Eurasia. These issues must be addressed.

The Eurasia Center will publish a new arms control journal, "Give Peace a Chance" on an annual basis. Its overall goal would be to seek to explore new solutions for nuclear arms control problems and areas of concern in the new millennium. Such a journal will unite different elements within the arms control community, where a vacuum has been left following the defeat of the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the growing development of arms buildups and proliferation in new areas of the globe. The current global arms control community is weak, fragmented, leaderless and ineffectual. The Eurasia Center calls for a new alliance of arms control experts to unite, take issue, and offer important alternatives to correct the present course of events. For those interested in partnering with our program, please contact us.