Comment from Ian Stewart: this post is reproduced from nonproliferation.org. I would welcome the opportunity to give additional book talks, including talks which are more contemporarily focused. Please reach out. 

On October 4, 2021 CNS hosted a webinar at the Monterey Institute of International Studies at Monterey, CA featuring Dr. Ian Stewart, executive director at the CNS Washington DC office. He is a specialist on issues related to export controls, sanctions, and nonproliferation.

Dr. Stewart summarized the argument of his new book as follows:

• First, he argued that the nonproliferation regime is flawed in design. I trace this to the… more

AQ Khan died on 10 October 2021 at the age of 85. Khan is an important figure in relation to proliferation and nonproliferation controls. This post does not seek to provide a biography or obituary to Khan. Instead, the post is the first of a series that will examine the role of AQ Khan drawing on primary source documents. This post provides a summary of a document obtained from the UK national archives, ‘URENCO and the AQ Khan affair’, which speaks to the Khan affair up to around October 1979. Images of this file  are published  alongside this piece. The file contains the recorded UK perspective on Khan’s employment at URENCO in the 1970s prior to his return to Pakistan in 1975.

In this post I wanted to provide some background on the research that led to the collection of the materials on this site. I started my PhD research after moving from the UK Ministry of Defence to King’s College London. My transfer to King’s College London built on my last role at the MOD in which I was responsible for assessment of exports and other forms of trade from a nonproliferation perspective. My main role at KCL was to be running something called Project Alpha, which was a new nonproliferation initiative through which to conduct research and outreach related to nonproliferation trade. This was already more than a full time role.

The PhD then was an extra undertaking on top of my day to day work, which was focused on contemporary counter proliferation topics. With my experience in government an academia of working on contemporary counter proliferation issues, I felt a strong need to better understand the context and history of… more