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MISSION
ATHENA,
the Hellenic Arms Control Center, is a non-profit, nongovernmental,
scientific organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and
support for effective arms control policies.
Through its homepage ATHENA provides
policy-makers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative
information, analysis and commentary on scientific
aspects of arms control, arms proposals, negotiations and agreements, and
all relevant international security issues.
ATHENA holds regular press
briefings on major arms control developments, providing commentary and
analysis on a broad spectrum of issues for journalists and scholars both in
Europe and abroad.
ATHENA covers numerous peace and
security issues affected by proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
including European and international nonproliferation programs, missile
defenses, failed and post-conflict states and irresponsible defense
spending.
The non-commercial academic nature of ATHENA ensures that all the proceeds from
donations, subsidies and advertisements will be used to support the
scientific research of the center (in the form of fellowships) as well as
the education of young scientists (in the form of internships) who wish to
specialize in arms control and international security subjects.
ATHENA’s
homepage can also be considered a library which provides information on
various arms control topics. Most of that information has been adopted from
some hot documents (which are readily downloadable from ATHENA’S homepage)
and from many other internet scientific references.
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ATHENA’s main objectives are:
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 …to
provide the international arms control community with a means of
communicating their views online
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...to
conduct scientific research in the field of arms control and
non-proliferation
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…to
improve the capabilities of the international intelligence community to
respond to new and emerging threats, reducing the need to resort to the
use of force, while enhancing the effectiveness of European military
forces when needed.
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…to
reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the risk of
their use both by states who possess them and those ones seeking to
acquire them.
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…to
redirect the Hellenic military forces towards new capabilities aligned
with the post-Cold War security environment, and to reduce the worldwide
incidence of deadly conflict.
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…to
provide citizens, decision-makers, scholars, and the press with accurate
and timely information on nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional
weapons and strategies to reduce the dangers they pose.
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…to
provide the entire world with a source of information on arms control
issues.
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