WYN Q. BOWEN has been a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, since 1997. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate on the Monitoring Proliferation Threats Project, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California. In 1997 and 1998 he took part in a total of three ballistic missile inspections in Iraq with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). He is the co-author (with David H.Dunn) of Beyond Containment: US Security Policy in the 1990s.