Concluding commentary

ABSTRACT

The United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs offers concluding thoughts on this special issue of the Nonproliferation Review, highlighting recent work that the international community has undertaken on the challenges of long-range conventional weapons, and offering recommendations for ameliorating the effects these weapons may have on strategic stability and international peace and security.

KEYWORDS:

• United Nations
• missiles
• missile controls
• strategic stability
• international security
• arms control

Notes

1 See, in this issue: Tom Plant, Joshua H. Pollack, and Cristina Varriale, “The changing role of allied conventional precision-strike capabilities in nuclear decision making,” Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 27, Nos. 1–2, February-March 2020.

2 António Guterres, Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament (New York: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2018), <www.un.org/disarmament/publications/more/securing-our-common-future/>.

3 United Nations General Assembly, “The issue of missiles in all its aspects: Report of the Secretary-General,” A/63/176, July 28, 2008, <www.undocs.org/A/63/176>.

4 Missile Technology Control Regime, “Guidelines for Sensitive Missile-Relevant Transfers,” n.d., <https://mtcr.info/guidelines-for-sensitive-missile-relevant-transfers/>.

5 United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, “Hypersonic Weapons: A Challenge of Opportunity for Strategic Arms Control: A Study Prepared on the Recommendation of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters,” United Nations, 2019, <www.un.org/disarmament/publications/more/hypersonic-weapons-a-challenge-and-opportunity-for-strategic-arms-control/>.

6 Rose Gottemoeller, “NATO Nuclear Policy in a Post-INF World,” Speech by NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller at the University of Oslo, September 9, 2019, <www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_168602.htm?selectedLocale=en>.