Forty years ago, the Plowshares Eight sparked a movement of nuclear disarmers that continues to take responsibility for weapons of mass destruction.

By Dr Kate Hudson,  general secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a leading anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigner. As tensions mount in the Middle East, so do the demands for a regional WMD-free zone. Nearly 40 years after such a zone was first proposed on the floor of the United Nations, the need is as urgent as ever. So ...

Below is some information on three new papers from SIPRI on proliferation concerns in North Korea, Pakistan and Syria. North Korean proliferation challenges: the role of the European Union Non-Proliferation Papers no. 18 Mark Fitzpatrick The bête noire of the global non-proliferation regime, North Korea has defeated every effort to rein in its pursuit of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical ...

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.” Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the ...

In their eagerness to recycle flimsy scare stories about Iran, the US media have failed to absorb the lessons of Iraq and WMD For more on this story, visit: Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran? | Brian Whitaker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.