This exhaustive survey of the many aspects of nuclear non-proliferation efforts explains why some nations pursued nuclear programs while others abandoned them. It addresses key issues such as concerns over rogue states and stateless rogues, delivery systems made possible by technology, and the connection between nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. It also examines whether non-proliferation regimes can deal with these threats or whether economic or military sanctions need to be developed and the feasibility of eliminating or greatly reducing the number of nuclear weapons.

Introduction
Glossary of Acronyms
Chapter 1: The Nuclear Weapon States
Chapter 2: Seeking to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation: Baruch Plan, Atoms for Peace, IAEA
Chapter 3: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Origins and Evolution
Chapter 4: Nuclear Test Bans to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Chapter 5: Seeking Control of Nuclear Weapons Materials
Chapter 6: Geographical Denuclearization: Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones
Chapter 7: "Proliferation in Reverse": Cooperative/Restraining Measures
Chapter 8: Foregoing Nuclear Weapons: Then and Now
Chapter 9: Assessing the Nonproliferation Regime
Selected References

Richard Dean Burns, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles, is an internationally recognized scholar who designed and edited the three-volume Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (Scribners, 1993) that received national awards. Earlier, he co-authored Disarmament in Perspective, 1919-1913, 4 vols. (U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, 1968) and compiled Arms Control & Disarmament: A Bibliography (ABC-Clio, 1977) the first such modern bibliography. He authored Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Praeger, 2009) and The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush (Praeger, 2010). And co-authored Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the end of the Cold War (Praeger, 2008), followed by America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation, 2 vols. (Praeger, 2010).