Paul Meyer

Meyer is a former Ambassador for Disarmament and served as Canada's Permanent Representative to the UN and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva from 2003 to 2007. He is currently a Fellow in International Security at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow at the Simons Foundation in Vancouver.

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Articles by Paul Meyer

Opinion
24 September 2013
Nuclear Weapons

Transparency: The beginning of the end of nuclear weapons?

Henrik SalanderArend J. MeerburgMiguel Marín BoschPaul MeyerZia Mian

If nuclear weapon states report openly on their arsenals, it could smooth the path to disarmament.

Opinion
19 September 2011
Nuclear Weapons

Free the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty: Functionality over forum

Paul Meyer

History repeats itself, the saying goes, first as tragedy and then as farce. This characterization could readily be applied to the international community's efforts to negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons. A longstanding objective of the international community, the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) has, tragically, never been the subject of even preliminary negotiations, as the nuclear powers that allegedly support it avoid taking any effective action on the treaty while, farcically, bemoaning its absence.