During the presidency of George Bush (1989-93), the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons, and the ballistic missiles capable of delivering them, rose greatly in significance as issues on the American security agenda. In the missile field, this became evident by the efforts of certain elements in the executive branch and several congressmen to improve domestic and international implementation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation examines the political, bureaucratic and systemic issues that interacted to determine the outcome of these efforts.

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WYN Q. BOWEN has been a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, since 1997. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate on the Monitoring Proliferation Threats Project, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. In 1997 and 1998 he took part in a total of three ballistic missile inspections in Iraq with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). He is the co-author (with David H.Dunn) of Beyond Containment: US Security Policy in the 1990s.

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Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Glossary PART I: BALLISTIC MISSILE PROLIFERATION AND THE AMERICAN RESPONSE 1950-89 Ballistic Missile Proliferation The Pre-1989 Evolution of US Missile Nonproliferation Policy PART II: THE POLITICS OF BALLISTIC MISSILE NONPROLIFERATION 1989-93 The Bush Administration and the MTCR Congress and Missile Nonproliferation Beyond the MTCR: Negotiating the Adherence of Non-Regime Suppliers to the Nonproliferation Norm Conclusion Bibliography Index