ABSTRACT
Hans Blix's introduction to the report of the WMD Commission describes how the Commission came about. The WMD Commission is a neat example of step to ensure that weapon denuclearization remain on the international agenda. The WMD Commission's report carries this message: "So long as any state has—especially nuclear arms—others will want them. So long as any such weapons remain in any state's arsenal, there is risk that they will one day be used, by design or accident. Any such use would be catastrophic." The WMD Commission's work is fully germane, transition to zero is treated more by implication than directly. In one of its sixty recommendations the Commission calls for work very much in keeping with the purposes of Designing Denuclearization: All states possessing nuclear weapons should commence planning for security without nuclear weapons. The sixty proposals form a checklist enabling any government to audit the correspondence between its policies and those advocated by the Commission.
