Bob Rigg is former senior editor with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and a former chair of the New Zealand National Consultative Committee on Disarmament. He is a freelance researcher and writer specialising in nuclear issues, the Middle East, Central Asia, and US foreign policy.
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Published in: openSecurityObama's dysfunctional coalition of the unwillingThe US call for "the broadest coalition of nations" to fight ISIS is simply an invocation of past moral crusades....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNuclear standoff between the Arab League and the westFor decades the west has covertly supported Israel’s nuclear programme while pretending to support a nuclear...
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Published in: openSecurityEbola: between public health and private profitKnown to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine...
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Published in: openSecurityThe enduring spectre of chemical weapons in IraqThe US's failure to destroy the remnants of Iraq's chemical weapons stock, along with many others, haunts as ISIS...
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Published in: HomeUS position over Iran’s ambassador generates confrontation with UNIf the UN does not act to reject this precedent, it will contribute to an international erosion of faith in its own...
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Published in: openSecuritySyria's chemical weapons: is the UN exceeding its mandate?
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should be a technical agency of the UN. But it has arguably...