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Is the NPT Still Relevant? – How to Progress the NPT’s Disarmament Provisions

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is the cornerstone of the global non-proliferation regime. However, the question is the NPT still relevant? may suggest that the importance of NPT has been forgotten.
John Carlson
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The US Initiative on Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to examine and critically evaluate a new US initiative called Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament (CEND), which was launched in 2018.
Mitsuru Kurosawa
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Irreversible Disarmament and Verification: Guidance from IAEA Safeguards

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) might inform a future verification regime for global nuclear disarmament that emphasizes irreversibility.
Mark Hibbs
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Nuclear Disarmament Verification via Resonant Phenomena [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2017
Nuclear disarmament treaties are not sufficient in and of themselves to neutralize the existential threat of the nuclear weapons. Technologies are necessary for verifying the authenticity of the nuclear warheads undergoing dismantlement before counting ...
Danagoulian, Areg, Hecla, Jake J.
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Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Kazakhstan presents an interesting and important real-life case of disarmament irreversibility. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kazakhstan inherited the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world – more than a thousand nuclear warheads, dozens of heavy
Togzhan Kassenova
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The Nuclear Ban Treaty and 2018 Disarmament Forums: An Initial Impact Assessment

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
The July 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will come into force when 50 UN Member States ratify it. The new treaty has been condemned by nuclear weapon states on the grounds of its claimed adverse impacts on Non-Proliferation ...
Michael Hamel-Green
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A theory of nuclear disarmament: Cases, analogies, and the role of the non-proliferation regime [PDF]

Contemporary Security Policy, 2021
What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided a nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states for decades, yet surprisingly little effort has been devoted to systematically theorizing its ...
Kjølv Egeland
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Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament: Unmaking Nuclear Weapon Complexes

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023
This article develops a framework for examining “irreversible nuclear disarmament” by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS). It argues that maximising the irreversibility of nuclear disarmament is about the “unmaking” of a nuclear weapons ...
Nick Ritchie
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The Role of Verification in Supporting Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023
The links between verification and irreversibility are not well understood. We show that verification and irreversibility are deeply linked and mutually supporting.
Alberto Muti, Grant Christopher, Noel Stott   +2 more
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Legal Reflections on the Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023
While the shared objective of a nuclear-weapon-free world has always implied an element of irreversibility, the term as such has not been consistently used in important disarmament texts before.
Thomas Hajnoczi
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