Foreword / Mark Fitzpatrick -- Introduction: the nuclear dragon: no longer out on the prowl / Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro -- The optimistic nuclear weapon states: the United States and the United Kingdom / David Santoro -- Advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons: the role of key individual and coalition states / Marianne Hanson -- The rollback states: South Africa and Kazakhstan / Stephen F. Burgess and Togzhan Kassenova -- The pessimistic nuclear weapon states: France, Russia, and China / David Santoro -- The threshold states: Japan and Brazil / Maria Rost Rublee -- The nuclear energy aspirants: Egypt and Vietnam / Tanya Ogilvie-White and Maria Rost Rublee -- The nuclear holdouts: India, Israel, and Pakistan / Devin T. Hagerty -- The defiant states: North Korea and Iran / Tanya Ogilvie-White -- The silent proliferators: Syria and Myanmar / Jacqueline Shire -- Conclusion: the nuclear dragon: one eye open, one eye closed / Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro.