The making of a non-proliferation law: A memoir
By Leonard Weiss | June 28, 2018
In this article, the author describes the legislative process by which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 (NNPA), the most comprehensive nuclear nonproliferation law created since the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, came to be enacted. The act would have looked very different, the author notes, but for an unusual parliamentary maneuver engineered by a few congressional staffers on the day of its passage.
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Leonard Weiss is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and a member of the National... Read More
