Special Issue on University Nonproliferation Education and Training Introduction

Nonproliferation, like many aspects of security, has not played out as many expected following the end of the Cold War. The peace dividend has been elusive in many countries. The notion that the world would become a safer and more secure place as nuclear weapons stockpiles were reduced has been trumped by the rise in international terrorism. Hopes that nuclear weapons would lose their salience as markers of elite status among nations along with pressures to acquire them have been dashed.