The following articles are available from the Special Edition 96 Airpower Journal.

Editorials

Special Edition 96

The USAF Institute for National Security Studies
Going Strong after four years

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Feature Articles

Nuclear Weapons-Grade Fissile Materials: The Most Serious Threat to US National Security Today?
by Colonel Guy B. Roberts, USMC
The breakup of the Soviet Union left nuclear material scattered throughout the Newly Independent States and increased the potential for the theft of those materials, and for organized criminals to enter the nuclear smuggling business.
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Weapons Proliferation and Organized Crime: Russian Military Dimensions
by Graham H. Turbiville, Jr.
While military and law enforcement specialists assessed weapons trafficking throughout most of the post­World War II years in a cold war context, the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 marked a watershed for an already serious problem.
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Russian Views on Information-Based Warfare
by Timothy L. Thomas
The availability of pirated technology will allow Russia to quickly catch and perhaps surpass even our own technological competency in some areas. In the information age, there is little room for complacency.
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Strategies for Coping with Enemy Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Dr Barry R. Schneider
Just who are these NASTIs who have emerged to provide us with a new set of threats to contend with?
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Europe without the United States? Prospects for European Defense Cooperation after the 1996 European Union Intergovernmental Conference
by Charles Krupnick
This article provides a brief history of autonomous European defense efforts and focuses on the next big opportunity for institutional change in Europe, the 1996 EU intergovernmental conference (IGC).
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Lessons from the Kriegsakademie: A Reflection of the Present? A Road Map for the Future?
by Oberstleutnant Peter F. Hauser, GAF
Major John C. Orndorff, USAF
Lt Colonel John C. Rawls, USAF
The rapidity and global nature of today's change, coupled with new military technologies, give the impression that we-like the characters in Star Trek-are "boldly going where no one has gone before."
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The New Germany and Nuclear Weapons: Options for the Future
by Major Mark N. Gose, USAF
One of the more sensitive aspects of this discussion deals with the issue of whether German motivations for obtaining nuclear weapons in the future exist or may develop. This issue is particularly relevant in light of the ongoing withdrawal of US forces from Europe in general and from Germany in particular.
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Democracy and Russian Military Professionalism: Why Full NATO Partnership is Still a Long Way Off
by Major Marybeth Peterson Ulrich, USAF
Indeed, NATO was created to thwart the spread of authoritarianism westward from Moscow, but the fall of communism presented the alliance with the opportunity to weigh the costs and benefits of expanding toward its former enemies.
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