Proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction and Cooperation on Defence Systems

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• OPENING SESSION

  • Opening of Seminar

• CONTRIBUTIONS

• AIDS

  • The Scientific Antisense Challenge: The Molecular Biology of Retroviruses: Latest Developments

  • The Scientific Challenge Facing the World Retroviral Epidemics

• ENERGY

  • Chinese Fusion and the Environment

  • Safety of Nuclear Power Plants in the Ukraine

  • Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants in the Russian Federation in Context of Energy Policy in Time of Crisis

• LAND, OCEAN, ATMOSPHERE

  • Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosions for Fundamental Research on the Interior of the Earth

  • Effects of Waste Disposal on the Mediterranean Sea and its Beaches and Some Solutions Offered by LAND-3 Project

  • Simulation and Prediction of Extreme Atmospheric Events and of the Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants

  • Synergism Between Arid Climate, Air Pollution and Acid Rains

  • Methane in the Rice Field: Production, Emission and Control Measures

  • Global Climate-Environment Change – A Planetary Problem

  • Research on Mitigation of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion

• INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON DEFENCE SYSTEM (ICDS)

  • Prospects for International Cooperation on a Joint Global Protection System

  • International Cooperation in Ballistic Missile Defence

  • Current Thinking about Missile Defence Systems

  • A Proposal for International Cooperation in Space

  • Cooperation in Defence Technology

  • Problems of High Brightness Laser Beams Generation and Precision Control

  • Toward a Defense-Dominated World

  • Cooperation in Tactical Ballistic Missile Defence

  • Steps towards Global Air Defenses

  • Global Defence and Strategic Stability

  • Possible Cooperation in Early Warning Systems and Space Control

  • The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization: Clementine Mission

• PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS FOR MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD)

  • Introduction to WMD

  • Current Aspects of Proliferation

  • Elimination of Nuclear Weapons in the Ukraine

  • Improvements in On-site Inspections

  • Effective Non-Proliferation Provisions without Affecting Progress in Nuclear Energy

  • An Updated Baruch Plan

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

  • The CCAST-WL Project

• PROBLEMS RELATING TO THE CIS AND OTHER EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

  • Chernobyl Sarcophagus

  • Some Instabilities Arising from the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Specific Problems for Estonia. Global Instabilities and the Entropy Law

  • Ecological Sustainability of the Lithuanian Region

• SOIL, FOOD AND IMPROVEMENT OF MODERN LIFE

  • The Status of the Soil in the World

  • China's Sorrow — The Huang He

  • A New Protein Source for the Developing World

  • Artificial Photosynthesis

  • METROPOLIS — The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

• CLOSING SESSION

  • Recent Progress in Understanding Nature

• CONCLUDING REMARKS

  • Jiadong Qian

  • H. R. Dalafi

  • K. M. B. Siegbahn

  • E. Teller

  • E. P. Velikhov

  • A. Zichichi

• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS