It includes recommendations on security, verification, transparency, conventional weapons and the legal framework for nuclear disarmament.
"We need a treaty that covers all conventional weapons, not just some of them, " she said.
In a few cases we found conventional weapons -- but no weapons of mass destruction.
But every western government is worried about the natural affinity between non-conventional weapons and non-conventional terrorists.
But it says that Baghdad currently possesses only 10-20% of the conventional weapons it had during the Gulf War.
It would also require states to prevent conventional weapons reaching the black market.
The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, signed in 1990, limits the number of conventional weapons countries are allowed.
Some conventional weapons or legal crowd control can also release smoke that causes respiratory problems, a common symptom of chemical weapons exposure.
These countries are participating in the global proliferation of advanced conventional weapons.
President Bush, in particular, has proclaimed a powerful "double hit" with his initiatives on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) and conventional weapons arms control.
The Bush administration published a new strategy document hinting that it might use nuclear weapons if its troops or allies were attacked by non-conventional weapons.
But one of the new jobs that America envisages for the alliance has suddenly become more urgent than ever: stemming the proliferation of non-conventional weapons.
Military analysts expect South Korea to spend more on conventional weapons designed to defend it against the North, including subs, destroyers, F-15 fighter jets and possibly F-35s.
The capability to strike at very long range with very great accuracy using conventional weapons has been a goal of strategic air power since the invention of the airplane.
In other words, they magnify the effectiveness of existing conventional weapons systems by an order of magnitude, allowing existing forces to be more effective without a commensurate increase in cost.
Mr Barnier suggests lengthening the list of Petersberg tasks (so named for the German town where they were drawn up), to take account of the heightened risk of global terrorism and non-conventional weapons.
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Foreign ministers of the U.K., France, Germany and Sweden want the treaty to cover all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons, all types of munitions, and related technologies.
Instead, U.S. strategists worked to develop options for flexible and graduated responses using both nuclear and conventional weapons, as well as to send clear signals to the Soviets about where the lines were that should not be crossed.
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Iran replies that some of the allegations make no sense, that some of the documents are forgeries and that the high-explosive tests and other activities listed by the agency were done to aid civilian industry or else develop conventional weapons.
To achieve these reductions, the Peacekeeper ICBMs have been retired, the Navy has removed four Trident submarines from strategic service and the B-1 bomber is now used for conventional weapons only and will not retain its capability to return to a nuclear role.
However, it is certainly true, as we have been talking about quite openly for weeks, if not months, and as Ben Rhodes, the Deputy National Security Advisor, briefed on extensively in New York at the United Nations, the issue of conventional weapons, including MANPADS, in Libya.
It compares Administration, Senate and House Armed Services Committee proposals for a variety of conventional and nuclear weapons programs.
It has kept you, or someone you love, from having to fight and possibly die in the kind of global cataclysm using non-nuclear (or "conventional") weapons that engulfed our countrymen and untold millions of others twice in the last century, before the dawn of the nuclear age.
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Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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After all, DNA is charged with assuring that the effects of nuclear weapons on conventional military hardware and equipment are properly understood and factored into designs and operational practices.
Testifying to Congress recently, Tara O'Toole of the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health said that anti-terrorism programmes have concentrated chiefly on the threat posed by conventional explosives or chemical weapons.
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As this happens, the world must also support efforts to secure dangerous weapons -- conventional and otherwise -- and bring fighters under central, civilian control.
Last but not least, the Kozyrev proposal would almost certainly increase worldwide proliferation of sophisticated conventional (and perhaps other) weapons.
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"The danger is that we could be reaching a point where nuclear weapons would become almost conventional, and there will be the possibility of a nuclear conflict at some point... that would be a turning point in human history, " he said.
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