Image: IAEA inspectors' findings in Iraq: bottles of specialized oil used in centrifuges for separating high-grade uranium from natural uranium (IAEA/Action Team 1991–98)
The SIPRI Update for February 2014 is out now—read it online, or subscribe to receive the SIPRI Update in your inbox each month.
In this issue we present an essay by Tariq Rauf on the role of safeguards in a nuclear weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. He writes:
The process for establishing a NWFZ in the Middle East will not be easy, but the experience of other regions with such zones suggests that political will and leadership are crucial. If further proliferation is to be prevented in the Middle East, and regional security enhanced, now is the time to convene the conference mandated by the 2010 NPT Review Conference.
Read the essay online or browse the full list of SIPRI Essays from 2009 to 2013.