Analysis

Iraq Concealment

Multiple investigations have discovered that Iraq had a centrally controlled mechanism tasked with concealing material and activity proscribed by Security Council resolutions.

Iraq Documents

UNSCOM seeks document from Iraqi side in order to have a full understanding of the way those weapons were conceived, produced and in some cases destroyed.

Security Council Introduction by Ambassador Butler

Following the first Gulf War the United Nations Special Commission was created to supervise the destruction of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and missile capabilities.

Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya

The group seeks to establish Islamic rule in Egypt by force and targets any secular establishment that they believe to be heretical.

The 2004 Russian Government Reforms

The reforms background and an overview of the restructuring.

Chronology of Major Events in the History of Biological and Chemical Weapons

Updated August 2008

Export Control Observer

Export Control Observer

International Export Control Observer (IECO) launched in September 2005. The IECO replaced the NIS and Asian Export Control Observers.

WMD Terrorism and Bin Laden

Prosecution witness, Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl, detailed his efforts to assist Bin Laden in an attempt to acquire uranium.

Nuclear Successor States of the Soviet Union

The status of nuclear weapons, weapons-usable nuclear material, export controls, and nonproliferation and disarmament assistance programs in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.

Unilateral Destruction

Iraq’s unilateral destruction creates problems for Special Commission’s verification process.