A compilation of the latest news, events, and publications related to nuclear weapons and nuclear non-proliferation. The “Newsbrief” was produced by the PPNN and personally edited by Ben Sanders.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Monday, 2 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Panama, EC, Yugoslavia, Poland, Nicaragua and South Africa.

An analysis of the current state of NATO and its future prospects given the changing European lanscape. NATO will have to review its attitude, role, and tasks to adapt to the new realities of European security.

Krzysztof Kozłowski, Paul Redmond, and others from the Polish and American intelligence services discuss bilateral cooperation, particularly in the area of counterterrorism.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Thursday, 5 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Germany, Albania, Korea and Hungary.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Friday, 6 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Albania, Liberia, Poland, Bulgaria and Nicaragua.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Saturday, 7 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Albania, Poland, Liberia, South Africa, Latin America, Yugoslavia and France.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Monday, 9 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Liberia, Albania, Poland, Haiti, Nicaragua, OAU, Kenya and India.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Tuesday, 10 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Nicaragua, France, East-Germany, Albania, USSR, Taiwan, Vietnam and Poland.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Thursday, 12 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Nicaragua, Algeria, South Korea and France.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Friday, 13 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Nicaragua, Cambodia, East Germany and Yugoslavia.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Saturday, 14 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, East Germany, India, West Germany and Liberia.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Monday, 16 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR, Poland, Iraq, East Germany and Afghanistan.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Tuesday, 17 July 1990 describes the latest developments in USSR-West Germany, UK, South Korea and USSR.

The report assesses German unity in three parts. The first regards internal factors of integration such as integrating monetary systems and elections. The next portion regards external factors, focusing mainly on the USSR's parameters for reunification regarding NATO and Poland's western border. Finally, the report assesses German reunification and predicts the process will be complete by the end of the year (1990). In addition, it discusses the positive prospects for European Unity and emphasizes Austria's role in binding a newly united Germany to Western Europe.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for Wednesday, 18 July 1990 describes the latest developments in Cuba-Czechoslovakia, USSR, France-Japan, Haiti, Burma, South Africa and Eastern Europe.

The document discusses the Soviet position on German unification in six separate parts. The first deals with confusion over Gorbachev's better than expected consent to unification. Second are the potential domestic and foreign policy reasons the USSR consented so readily to unification, followed by the third part which outlines potential Soviet benefits from the process. The fourth section discusses the autonomy of the new German government, which is backed up with the fifth section discussing public sentiment. The final portion discusses the fine line for both the Soviet Union and the West between being overbearing on Germany's new independence and not helping enough.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 19 July 1990 describes the latest developments in Germanys, the Soviet Union, Iraq, Spain, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 20 July 1990 describes the latest developments in South Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Haiti and Persian Gulf.

The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 21 July 1990 describes the latest developments in Iraq, Liberia, Koreas, the Soviet Union, Romania, Bulgaria and Panama.