1. Introduction: international nuclear export controls and non-proliferation, and the collective action problem 2. The missed opportunity? Effective control of atomic energy 3. Atoms, sometimes for peace: the emergence of the non-proliferation collective action problem 4. Strategies that failed? US non-proliferation strategy from 1964 to 1980 5. International nuclear trade controls after the Cold War 6. Universalising non-proliferation trade controls 7. Conclusions
Ian J. Stewart is Executive Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washingtong DC, USA.