Abstract
A cursory examination of the post-Cold War record shows significant successes in sustaining nonproliferation. Nevertheless, major challenges do exist, especially in the inability of the Non-proliferation Treaty system to deal with proliferation in North Korea and Iran. Here, Mohan presents a brief survey of the advances made in the nonproliferation arena and moves on to question one of the central assumptions of the Prague Agenda: that an inseparable link exists today between arms reductions among the great powers and weapons of mass destruction proliferation among non-nuclear states. He then discusses the domestic US factors which have uniquely shaped both the Prague Agenda and the global discourse on nuclear weapons and arms control from the beginning, and finally concludes with a discussion of the challenges that US nonproliferation policy might face amidst a plausible reorientation of US foreign policy.
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