Prawitz, Jan ; Leonard, James, A zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East: A political project , Pacifica Review: Peace, Security & Global Change, Vol. 11, no. 3, 1999, pp. 257-271 This paper describes the Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone’s proposal, originally advanced by Iran and Egypt in 1974, as well as the extension of the concept in 1990 to include all weapons of mass destruction.