Citation

Isumonah VA. Armed Forces Soc. 2013; 39(2): 331-358.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0095327X12446925

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The nonproliferation of weapons agenda was entirely about chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons because they were seen as the most threatening to human existence and the security of the most powerful countries. Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), which have been instrumental to massive destruction of life and property, began to receive a serious attention from world leaders in the 1990s. Consequently, this article is concerned with the problems of controlling the proliferation of SALW in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. It argues that supply implicitly obeys the demand for SALW because it lacks a control factor. The presence of such a factor makes the acquisition of nuclear capability very difficult. Therefore, the effective control of SALW's proliferation would depend not only on controlling local demand factors but also on the presence of a supply control factor.

Language: en