Abstract
Banning Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Frederick N. Mattis. Praeger Security International, 2009. 129 pages, $39.95.
Notes
1. Mattis includes a useful analysis of the proposed Nuclear Weapons Convention in his Appendix A. The Nuclear Weapons Convention was proposed by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and presented for consideration by Costa Rica and Malaysia at the United Nations on December 17, 2007, by means of a letter addressed to the UN secretary-general. See ICAN, <www.icanw.org/nuclear-weapons-convention>.
2. Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi et al., “Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers,” ICNND, November 2009, <www.icnnd.org/reference/reports/ent/index.html>.
3. George Perkovich and Patricia Lewis, “The Vantage Point,” ICNND Research Paper, January 2009, <www.icnnd.org/research/index.html>.
4. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, January 27, 1980, Article 18.