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The Irreversibility Paradox: What Makes for Enduring Arms Control and Disarmament

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023
The principle of irreversibility poses a paradox for arms control. On the one hand, negotiators often seek to ensure that progress made in nuclear arms control is enduring and that agreements are resilient over time. This may include the dismantlement of
Joseph Rodgers, Heather Williams
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A contestation of nuclear ontologies: resisting nuclearism and reimagining the politics of nuclear disarmament

International Relations, 2022
The global politics of nuclear disarmament has become deeply contested over the past decade, particularly around the negotiation of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Different explanations are offered, but these tend to centre
Nick Ritchie
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TPNW, the Caribbean and the Disarmament Politics of Small Island States

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a historic achievement of many years of sustained advocacy and diplomacy by a deft coalition of governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society.
Shorna-Kay Richards
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When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward

Contemporary Security Policy, 2021
Treaties can be denounced and withdrawn from unilaterally and collectively. We ask when it would be legitimate to abandon the NPT, a treaty that 50 years ago committed states to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, but still has not delivered on ...
Joelien Pretorius, Tom Sauer
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Practical Implementation of the Join-and-Disarm Option in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a nuclear-armed state that joins the treaty with two options. One is to join after eliminating its weapons and nuclear-weapon program.
Pavel Podvig
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Does the Conference of Disarmament Have a Future?

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) has been in a prolonged state of paralysis. Since its negotiation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, it has not produced any other agreement and has been unable even to agree on a Programme of Work ...
Paul Meyer
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The NPT at Fifty: Successes and Failures

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
The NPT succeeded in its initial task of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons to the potential proliferators considered likely at the time of its entry into force in 1970.
Nobuyasu Abe
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How (not) to stop the killer robots: A comparative analysis of humanitarian disarmament campaign strategies

Contemporary Security Policy, 2020
Whether and how Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) can and should be regulated is intensely debated among governments, scholars, and campaigning activists.
Elvira Rosert, Frank G. C. Sauer
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An Introduction to the Special Feature on the Biden Nuclear Posture Review

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The US Biden administration is conducting its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR); the resulting report is expected to come out in early 2022. In this introductory essay to the special feature on the upcoming NPR and its implications for US Asian allies, the ...
Nobuyasu Abe
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Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty

Daedalus, 2020
The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (tpnw) represents a daring act of self-empowerment: nuclear have-nots produced an international disarmament treaty without the involvement of the nuclear-weapon states or their allies.
Harald Müller, Carmen Wunderlich
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