Die Mehrzahl der Beiträge zu diesem Sammelband sind überarbeitete Versionen von Vorträgen, die im September 1997 auf einer Konferenz des "International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP)" an der Fudan University in Shanghai gehalten wurden. Inhalt: I. Ban and verify: David Krieger: International humanitarian law versus state survival in the opinion of the international court of justice (15-21); Wolfgang Bender: Problems of a contemporary peace ethics: "Toward Eternal Peace" or "Toward Nuclear Peace" (23-29); Martin B. Kalinowski / Wolfgang Liebert / Jürgen Scheffran: Has the time come for the Nuclear Weapons Convention? (31-42); Jürgen Scheffran / Merav Datan: Nuclear Weapons Convention - The treaty is out of the bottle (43-56); Martin B. Kalinowski: Preventive control. Integrated prevention and detection of diversion of special nuclear material in the Nuclear Weapons Convention (57-60); Martin B. Kalinowski / Wolfgang Liebert / Jürgen Scheffran: Beyond technical verification. Transparency, verification, and preventive control for the Nuclear Weapons Convention (61-68); Jonathan B. Tucker: Verifying a multilateral ban on nuclear weapons: Lessons from the Chemical Weapons Convention (69-81). II. Next steps in nuclear disarmament: Rebecca Johnson: Prospects for negotiation on nuclear disarmament (85-106); Xia Liping: START III negotiations and future trends of nuclear disarmament (107-111); Owen Greene: Multilateralising the nuclear disarmament process (113-122); Dingli Shen: Promoting nuclear non-proliferation: A Chinese view (123-127); Martin B. Kalinowski: Qualitative disarmament by tritium control. A linkage between nuclear disarmament and non proliferation within a cutoff agreement (129-134). III. Tendencies against abolition: Liu Huaqiu: Next Steps: Beyond the CTBT (137-139); Andrew Lichterman / Jacqueline Cabasso: A Faustian Bargain: Why "Stockpile Stewardship" is fundamentally incompatible with the process of nuclear disarmament (141-156); George Lewis: Ballistic missile defences and deep nuclear reductions (157-169); Götz Neuneck: The US Counterproliferation Initiative and NATO: The Silent Running (171-184). IV. Cutting off at source and tail: Martin B. Kalinowski: Could a cut-off agreement offer a leverage to overcome the deadlock between nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation? (187-193); Martin B. Kalinowski: Outline of a Comprehensive Cut-off Convention (195-201); Suzanna van Moyland: The IAEA's Additional Protocol: Some connections between arms control and disarmament (203-209); Allison Macfarlane: Preventing a big bang: Excess weapons plutonium immobilization (211-218); Wolfgang Liebert / Alexander Glaser / Christoph Pistner: Elimination versus disposal options for plutonium (219-226). V. No global ban without a regional ban - The Middle East as a reference case: Bahig Nassar: US nuclear policy. Its impacts on a NWFZ in the Middle East (229-232); Götz Neuneck: The future threat of missiles and missile programmes in the Middle East and Asia (233-248); Reuven Pedatzur: Ballistic missile defences in the Middle East. The implications on regional stability (249-256); Martin B. Kalinowski: Non-intrusive and cooperative monitoring as a step towards a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East (257-261); Fawzy Hussein Hammad: A cooperative integrated monitoring and verification system for a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (262-273).