By CKR
You just never know what you're going to find on the Internet. When I was preparing the previous post, I checked out the latest issue of the Washington Quarterly and found that Claudia Baumgart and Harald Müller are also proposing [pdf file] a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. It's a good article, with detailed strategies and a short history of the idea, which came up in the settlement of the first Gulf War.
UN Security Council Resolution 687, which terminated the Persian Gulf War in 1991, adopted the idea of both an NWFZ and a WMDFZ, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) extension conference in 1995 advocated an NWFZ in its “Resolution on the Middle East.” UNSC Resolution 687 renewed the call for an NWFZ and a zone free of all WMD in its preamble and noted in its 14th operational paragraph that Iraq’s disarmament represented one step toward such a zone that would also be free of “missiles for their delivery.”
And, cross my heart, I didn't find this article until just now. My earlier post on the subject was my own, for better and worse.