Nuclear arms control

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Justifying attacks on nuclear facilities
Ludovica Castelli & Olamide Samuel, Non-proliferation Review, (2024).
A New Approach to Arms Control: How to Safeguard Nuclear Weapons in an Era of Great-Power Politics
Ulrich Kühn, Heather Williams, Foreign Affairs, June 2023
Lessons from the past: Arms control in uncooperative times
Dr Alexander Graef, Tim Thies, European Leadership Network, December 2022
Europe’s Role in Promoting US-China Arms Control Cooperation
Tong Zhao, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, February 2022
Hard Times For Arms Control: What Can Be Done?
Steven E. Miller, HCSS, February 2022
Nuclear arms control needs a fresh start
Jan Ludvik, Peace Research Center Prague, December 2021
Reimagining Nuclear Arms Control: A Comprehensive Approach
James M. Action, Thomas MacDonald, Pranay Vaddi, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 16 December 2021
Redesigning Nuclear Arms Control for New Realities
Anna Péczeli, Brad Roberts, Jonas Schneider, Adam Thomson, Oliver Thränert and Heather Williams, CSS Policy Perspectives 9/8, November 2021
Redesigning Nuclear Arms Control for New Realities
Anna Péczeli, Brad Roberts, Jonas Schneider, Adam Thomson, Oliver Thränert, and Heather Williams, CSS Zurich, November 2021
Weapons of Mass Distortion
Marina Favaro, King’s College London Centre for Science & Security Studies, May 2021
Arms Control Idol: Ideas for the Future of Strategic Cooperation and Community
Thomas Cheney et al., King’s College London Centre for Science & Security Studies, 2021
Les grands dossiers nucléaires et la nouvelle administration Biden
(in French), Sophie Moreau-Brillatz, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, March 2021
Some Thoughts on the Logic of Strategic Arms Control: Three Perspectives
Lewis A. Dunn, Andrey Baklitskiy & Tong Zhao, UNIDIR, January 2021
Arms Control Without Treaties
Névine Schepers and Oliver Thränert, CSS Policy Perspectives 9/3, March 2021
The TPNW and the NPT
DeepCuts Issue Brief #15, Lina-Marieke Hilgert, Angela Kane, Anastasia Malygina, January 2021
Capturing Technology. Rethinking Arms Control
Conference Reader, November 2020
Report: Nuclear Responsibilities – A New Approach for Thinking and Talking about Nuclear Weapons
Sebastian Brixey-Williams, BASIC, November 2020
Uncharted waters: Europe and the End of Nuclear Arms Control
Ulrich Kühn, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 2020
China and Nuclear Arms Control
Névine Schepers, CSS Analyses in Security Policy n°276, December 2020
Escalation by Tweet: Managing the new nuclear diplomacy
Heather Williams and Alexi Drew, KCL, July 2020
Disruptive technologies and nuclear weapons
Elena Sokova, New Perspectives, Institute of International Relations Prague – IIR, July 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk
Vincent Boulanin, Lora Saalman, Petr Topychkanov, Fei Su and Moa Peldan Carlsson, SIPRI, June 2020
Arms Control: For and By Europe
Alexander Bollfrass and Mariana Budjeryn, CSS Policy Perspectives 8/10, September 2020
Global Trends Analysis – The future of nuclear arms control: time for an update
Angela Kane and Noah Mayhew, Development and Peace Foundation/VCDNP, June 2020
Towards Greater Nuclear Restraint: Raising the Threshold for Nuclear Weapon Use
Tytti Erästö and Petr Topychkanov, SIPRI, May 2020
Trilateral Arms Control? Perspectives from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing
Ulrich Kühn, Alexey Arbatov, David Santoro and Tong Zhao, IFSH, March 2020
Maîtrise des armements et missiles : quelles perspectives après la disparition du Traité FNI ? (in French)
Emmanuelle Maitre, FRS, February 2020
Common Security Through Nuclear Responsibilities: Perspectives from Geneva
Alice Spilman, Nicholas J. Wheeler, Sebastian Brixey-Williams, BASIC, August 2019
La fin de l’arms control ? (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture (dir.), FRS, Juin 2019
Hacking the bomb: Cyber threats and nuclear weapons
Andrew Futter, (Georgetown, 2019)
ELN Group Statement: A European response to US withdrawal from the INF Treaty
7 November 2018
Ban the Bomb? Or Bomb the Ban? Next Steps on the Ban Treaty
Brad Roberts, European Leadership Network, March 2018
Challenges to U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Control during the Trump Presidency
Jacek Durcalek, PISM Bulletin No.33, April 3, 2017
Prospects for nuclear disarmament and non- proliferation in the Trump era
Lord Hannay, 15 November 2016
Papers from the 2015 Annual Conference of the UK Project on Nuclear Issues (UK PONI)
Timothy Stafford, Emil Dall (Ed by), Conference Reports, 23 December 2015
The Crisis of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in the Global Context
Stefan C.P. Hinz, GCSP Geneva Paper – Research Series n°16, December 2015
Scenarios for Russia’s Withdrawal from the INF Treaty
Jacek Durkalec, Bulletin PISM no 97 (829), 30 October 2015
Financing Nuclear Power Plant Projects: a New Paradigm?
Fabienne PEHUET LUCET , Enote - note de l'IFRI, May 2015, 50pp.
Nuclear Weapons under International Law
G. Nystuen, S. Casey-Maslen, A. Golden Bersagel , Cambridge University Press, 2014
Supporting Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 19 - 2012, PNND, 212p.
Multilateral verification: Exploring new ideas
David Cliff and David Keir, Vertic Brief, 17 January 2012

DISARMAMENT

A Step-by-Step Approach to Universal Nuclear Disarmament
By Nichole Ballawar, BASIC, June 2026
Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament in the Nordic region: Lessons from the past and possible routes ahead
Astrid Brodén, Thomas Jonter, Emma Rosengren, Trine Rosengren Pejstrup, Tapio Juntunen and Kjølv Egeland, Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, February 2025
The Role of Verification in Supporting Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament
Alberto Muti, Grant Christopher, Noel Stott, VERTIC, December 2023
The ban treaty, two years after: A ray of hope for nuclear disarmament
Alexander Kmentt, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2023
Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament: Bridging the Gap between Competing Approaches
Rizwana Abbasi, Routledge, December 2022
Neutral countries and the Doomsday Clock : Opportunities for Switzerland to advance nuclear risk reduction and disarmament in the period 2023-2024
Basel Peace Office, December 2022
Revisiting ‘Minimal Nuclear Deterrence’: Laying the Ground for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
Dr. Tytti Erästö, SIPRI, juin 2022
Treaty Law to Signal to Outsiders: The Case of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Tobias Vestner, GCSP, 8 juin 2022
The Stepping Stones Approach, the TPNW, and the Value of Complementarity for Sustainable, Verifiable Disarmament
Emily Enright and Eva-Nour Repussard, BASIC, January 2022
Report: Stepping Stones Approach to Disarmament
Paul Ingram, BASIC, December 2021
From NATO to NPT and Beyond: Diversifying Debates, Expanding Nuclear Mindsets
Sara Bundtzen and Ekaterina Lapanovich, Deep Cuts Project, December 2021
Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to nuclear weapons?
Michal Smetana, Michal Onderco and Tom Etienne, Peace Research Center Prague (in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), July 2021
Encouraging Education in the Field of Nuclear Disarmament Verification
Elena Gai, VERTIC, June 2021
A Comparison of National Reviews of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Michal Onderco and Andrea Farrés Jiménez, EUNPDC, June 2021
New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament: Outlining a Way Forward
Dr Tytti Erästö, SIPRI, May 2021
New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament: Outlining a Way Forward
Tytti Erästö, SIPRI, May 2021
Toward Nuclear Disarmament. Building up Transparency and Verification
Malte Göttsche and Alexander Glaser (editors), Nuclear Verification and Disarmament RWTH Aachen University, April 2021
Beyond the Ban: A Global Agenda for Nuclear Justice
Jana Baldus, Caroline Fehl and Sascha Hach, PRIF, 2021
Who stole disarmament? History and nostalgia in nuclear abolition discourse
Kjølv Egeland, Chatham House, September 2020
Starve nuclear weapons to death with a tritium freeze
Robert Kelly, SIPRI, August 2020
The 2020 NPT Review Conference and the TPNW Factor
John Carlson (VCDNP), in the Luxembourg International Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe’s publication “Arms Control: Burden of Change”, February 2020
Becoming a disarmament champion: the Austrian crusade against nuclear weapons
Emmanuelle Maitre and Pauline Lévy (FRS), The Nonproliferation Review, Volume 26 – 2019, January 2020
Taking the Pulse at the Inaugural Meeting of the CEND Initiative
William Potter, VCDNP, July 2019
Operationalizing Nuclear Disarmament Verification
Tytti Erästö, Ugnė Komžaitė and Petr Topychkanov, SIPRI, April 2019
The Lack of Disarmament in the Middle East: A Thorn in the Side of the NPT
Tytti Erästö, SIPRI, January 2019
Report : Stepping Stones to Disarmament – Making Progress in a Polarised International Climate
Paul Ingram, British American Security Information Council, April 2019
Report: Reporting on Nuclear Disarmament – Success and Failure in 25 years of Disarmament Diplomacy
Sebastian Brixey-Williams, British American Security Information Council, March 2019
The death of the INF Treaty or the end of the post-Cold war era
Bruno Tertrais, FRS, February 2019
The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Tom Sauer & Mathias Reveraert, 24 Dec 2018
The Nuclear Weapon Prohibition Treaty: A Safeguards Debacle
John Carlson, VERTIC Trust & Verify, No.158, Autumn 2018
The Crisis of Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control
Ulrich Kühn and Heinrich Böll, VCDNP, October 2018
Setting the Stage for Progress towards Nuclear Disarmament
Tytti Erästö, Sibylle Bauer, Shannon N. Kile and Petr Topychkanov, SIPRI, April 2018
Breakthrough or Breakpoint? Global Perspectives on the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Shatabhisha Shetty, Denitsa Raynova (ed), Report, December 8, 2017
A world free of nuclear weapons: is it possible? is it desirable? how could it be achieved?
OPANAL, Seminar report, November 2, 2017
Europe and Nuclear Disarmament: Controversial Views
Ekaterina Shirobokova, August 2017, 27pp.
Defining a Group of Scientific Experts for Disarmament Verification
Andreas Persbo, VERTIC, May 2017
Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security to the Toolbox of 21st Century Leaders
Dan Plesch, Kevin Miletic, Tariq Rauf, SIPRI/SOAS University of London, January 2017, 57pp.
Back to Hiroshima (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture, Note No.14/2016, 17 June 2016
Beyond the Ban – The humanitarian initiative of nuclear disarmament and advocacy of no-first-use nuclear doctrines
Alberto Perez Vadillo, Report, May 2016, 23pp.
It’s Time to Outlaw Nuclear Weapons
Tom Sauer, The National Interest, 18 April 2016
Eliminating vs prohibiting nuclear weapons?
Nobuo Hayashi, 6 November 2015
Advancing disarmament verification tools: a task for Europe?
Malte Göttsche, Moritz Kütt, Götz Neuneck, Irmgard Niemeyer, NP Paper No.47, October 2015, 18pp.
The NPT and the Humanitarian Initiative: Towards and Beyond the 2015 NPT Review Conference
Tom Sauer, Deep Cuts Working Paper No.5, April 2015, 15pp.
The European Union and the Humanitarian Initiative in the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Cycle
Jenny Nielsen, Marianne Hanson, NP paper No.41, December 2014, 20p.
Nuclear weapons and the humanitarian approach
Tom Sauer, Joelien Pretorius, Global Change. Peace and Security, October 2014, 20p.
The Case Against Total Nuclear Disarmament
Sinan Ülgen, Op Ed, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 25, 2014
The humanitarian initiative on disarmament and the 2015 NPT review process
Jenny Nielsen, Conference presentation - WMD and Security Forum, 14 November 2013, Amman, Jordan
Resource guide on nuclear disarmament for religious leaders and communities
Religions for Peace, 2013, 48p.
“Why Eliminate Nuclear Weapons?”
James E. Doyle, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2013
Impact of U.S. Nuclear Reductions on European Security
Lukasz Kulesa, 15 March 2013, PISM Bulletin, No. 26, 479
No Disarmament Euphoria
Oliver Schmidt, SWP Comments, February 2013, 4p.
Verification in a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Andreas Persbo, 20 November 2012, 5p.
Eine verpasste Gelegenheit zur nuklearen Abrüstung (in German)
F.Tanner, Neuer Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) No. 116, 21 May 2012
Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament: Practical Steps against Nuclear Rearmament
David Cliﬀ, Hassan Elbahtimy and Andreas Persbo , VERTIC Report, September 2011, 90 p.
Nuclear Disarmament in three Movements (in Spanish)
Vicente Garrido Rebolledo , May 2011
Nuclear Transparency and Registers of Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Materials
Harald Müller and Annette Schaper, PRIF Report No. 97, Frankfurt/M., 2010
Verifying Warhead Dismantlement: Past, present, future
David Cliff, Hassan Elbahtimy and Andreas Persbo, VERTIC Verification Matters, No. 9, September 2010, 99 p.
Towards Global Zero ? :The New American Nuclear Policy between Ambition and Reality (in German)
Marco Fey, Giorgio Franceschini, Harald Müller and Hans-Joachim Schmidt, HSFK-Report Nr. 4/2010, Frankfurt/M.
The Illogic of Zero
Bruno Tertrais, in The Washington Quarterly, vol. 33, n° 2, avril 2010
Disarmament – Non-Proliferation – Deterrence
Heinz Gärtner, OIIP Policy Paper, March 2010 , 6 p.
Transparency for a nuclear weapon free world: Concepts for a register of nuclear weapons and fissile material (in German)
Harald Müller and Annette Schaper, HSFK-Report Nr. 10/2009, Frankfurt/M.
Nuclear disarmament and arms control: Domestic and foreign factors of Russia’s positions (in French)
Isabelle Facon, Recherches & Documents N°07/2009, 76 p., Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Enforcement of the Rules in a Nuclear Weapon Free World (in German)
Harald Müller, HSFK-Report Nr. 4/2009, Frankfurt/M.
The Political and Strategic Conditions of Nuclear Disarmament
Bruno Tertrais, Note n°04/2009, 5 p., Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Dream or Reality ?
Bart Smedts, RHID Focus Paper 6, February 2009
From Arms Control to Non-Proliferation: New Challenges for Cooperative Security (in French)
Pierre-Etienne Champenois , EGMONT PAPER 26, November 2008
Arms Control Revisited: Non-proliferation and Denuclearization
The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Report of the Warsaw Reflection Group, November 20-21, 2008, 75 p.
Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Nuclear Disarmament and Security Policies in Sweden (1946-1975) (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture, CESIM Historical Paper, Juin 2007

FISSILE MATERIALS

Verification of Nuclear Material in Non-Proscribed Military Use by a State with a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement: Legal and related aspects
John Carlson, VCDNP, 15 February 2022
Negotiating a FMCT: Still a Priority?
Emmanuelle Maître, FRS, July 2021
The Need for Another Look at Tritium
Nevine Schepers, VERTIC Trust & Verify, No.158, Autumn 2018
Deferred Verification Verifiable Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks
Pavel Podvig, UNIDIR, 2017
Fissile Material Stockpile Declarations and Cooperative Nuclear Archaeology
lexander Glaser and Malte Göttsche, in: FM(C)T Meeting Series, Verifiable Declarations of Fissile Material Stocks: Challenges and Solutions, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Resources, 2017
Phosphate fertilizers as proliferation-relevant source of uranium
Robert Kelley, Vitaly Fedchenko, NP paper No.59, May 2017, 14pp.
From felt pens to digital tracking: Improving inventory controls in uranium production
Cindy Vestergaard, Recommendations, 25 August 2015
Govering uranium – from uranium mining to conversion
Cindy Vestergaard, DIIS Report, 118pp., 28 August 2015
Governing Uranium in India – The challenges of India’s expanding nuclear energy grid
DIIS Report, 28 January 2015
New Tools and New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks: Verifying Baseline Declarations of Nuclear Materials and Warheads
James Fuller, John Carlson, Malte Göttsche, et al., ed. Nuclear Threat Initiative, 2014.
Zero Tolerance – A Policy That Never Really Was?
Gry Thomasen, DIIS Comment, May 22, 2014
A chance to make progress on FM(C)T?
Rebecca Cousins, BASIC News, 13 May 2013
Verifying a fissile material cut-off treaty
Shannon E. Kile and Robert E. Kelley, SIPRI Policy paper 33, August 2012, 52p.
Verification of Disarmament of Nuclear Material (in German)
Annette Schaper, HSFK-Report Nr. 3/2009, Frankfurt/M.

IAEA

Understanding States’ Experiences in Safeguards: Challenges to and Opportunities for Entry into Force and Implementation
Noah C. Mayhew Ingrid Kirsten Louis Reitmann Alberto Muti, VCDNP, February 2023
IAEA Safeguards, the Naval “Loophole” and the AUKUS Proposal
John Carlson, VCDNP, 24 February 2022
Accession to and Impact of the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material on States Parties
Artem Lazarev and Marianne Nari Fisher, VCDNP, February 2022
VCDNP Task Force on Peaceful Uses: Report and Recommendations
Elena K. Sokova and Ingrid Kirsten, VCDNP, December 2021
IAEA Safeguards: Emerging challenges and opportunities
Jenni Rissanen, in Verification & Implementation 2019 – A collection of analysis on international agreements for security and development, VERTIC, July 2020
The IAEA’s Safeguards System as the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Verification Mechanism
VCDNP Non-Resident Senior Fellow John Carlson, with Vladimir Kuchinov and Thomas Shea, Nuclear Threat Initiative, May 2020
Iran on the Boil in the IAEA Boardroom: Russia, the West, and NPT Obligations
Mark Hibbs, The European Leadership Network (ELN), February 2020
IAEA Safeguards: Staying Ahead of the Game
Laura Rockwood, Noah Mayhew, Artem Lazarev and Mara Pfneisl/ VCDNP/ September 2019
Naval Nuclear Propulsion and IAEA Safeguards
Laura Rockwood (VCDNP), Federation of American Scientists, August 2017
Opportunities for US/Russian Collaboration in Strengthening IAEA’s Safeguards System
Laura Rockwood, VCDNP, June 2017
Creating a ‘One House’ Culture at the IAEA through Matrix Management
Robert Kelley, SIPRI, January 2014
A Reflection on the Current State of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Safeguards
Andreas Persbo, Non-proliferation Paper No. 8, SIPRI, February 2012
The European Union, the IAEA and WMD Non-proliferation: Unity of Approach and Continuity of Action
Lars-Erik Lundin, SIPRI, February, 2012
Optimizing the IAEA Safeguards System
Sonia Drobysz & Bernard Sitt, CESIM Study Report, September 2011
Perspectives on the 2010 IAEA General Conference
VERTIC Arms Control and Disarmament Programme , VERTIC Brief, No. 13, December 2010
Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance
Pierre Goldschmidt, in Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 51, no. 1, February–March 2009, pp. 143–164

NON-PROLIFERATION

S6.E4: Better know a treaty: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has anchored the global nuclear order for more than half a century, yet it was never a consensus, only a bargain between competing interests. More than half a century on, that bargain is under more strain than ever. Born of Cold War fears that nuclear weapons would spread around the world, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opened for signature in 1968 and was extended indefinitely in 1995. It now counts 191 member states, making it one of the most widely joined weapons treaties in history, yet its members are deeply divided over disarmament, nuclear sharing and the…
Reimagining Risk Reduction: Adapting Cold War Tools to Manage 21st Century Strategic Instability
Nikolai Sokov, Sahil V. Shah, David Santoro, and Miles Pomper, February 2025
Report: The Nuclear Responsibilities Primer: Exploring Perspectives on Nuclear Responsibilities within the Non-Proliferation Regime
Alice Spilman, Dr Chiara Cervasio, Eva-Nour Repussard, and Mhairi McClafferty, BASIC, 2 December 2024
The G7 and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime: Between Idealism and Pragmatism
Manuel Herrera, IAI, June 2023
Toward A Feminist Nuclear Weapons Policy
Jannis Kappelmann, Memo, DGAP, May 2023
Changing perceptions of strategic risks in the Asia-Pacific – the Australian, Japanese, and South Korean perspectives
Dr Michael Cohen, Nobumasa Akiyama, Lee Sang Hyun, EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP NETWORK, March 2023
Non-Proliferation and nuclear rearmament (in Italian)
IRIAD, January 2023
How Latin America helped drive nuclear non-proliferation
J. Luis Rodriguez, Elizabeth Mendenhall, Joseph Hills, Chatam House, 30 juin 2022
The global nuclear order and the crisis of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: Taking stock and moving forward
Jana Baldus, Harald Müller and Carmen Wunderlich, PRIF, January 2022
Strengthening deterrence against nuclear, conventional, and hybrid threats: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Insights for US Allies in Europe and Asia
Tim Sweijs, Paul van Hooft and Philip Geurts, HCSS, January 2022
Backchannel Non-Proliferation: Militarily Non-Aligned States and Nuclear Diplomacy
Stephen Herzog, in Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law – Volume VI, pp. 281-303, July 2021
Spain’s nuclear non-proliferation policy in its historical and international context (in French)
Manuel Herrera, FRS, May 2020
Les systèmes de garantie de l’AIEA et d’Euratom
Benjamin Hautecouverture, Droit nucléaire: Non-prolifération et sécurité nucléaire, Presses universitaires Aix-Marseille, Recherches administratives, October 2017 (in French)
Nuclear Non-Proliferation in a Deadlock
Oliver Thränert, CSS Analyses in Security Policy n°261, April 2020
India’s Strategic Nuclear and Missile Programmes – A baseline study for non-proliferation compliance
Project Alpha, KCL, June 2017
Corporate engagement in non-proliferation along the supply chain
France Bourgouin , DIIS Report, 05 May 2015
Integrating without quite breaking the rules: the EU and India’s acceptance within the nonproliferation regime
Benjamin Kienzle, NP Paper No.43, February 2015, 18pp.
The concept of nuclear threshold and its political and strategic implications
Bernard Sitt, The Non-Proliferation Monthly's Editorial, July 2013
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime at a Crossroads
INSS, FRS, Conference Records, Tel Aviv, 11 - 12 February 2013
The European Union, its Overseas Territories and Non-Proliferation: the Case of Arctic Yellowcake
Cindy Vestergaard, NP paper No.25, January 2013, 12p.
The revised Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines: a European Union perspective
Andrea Viski, NP paper No. 15, May 2012, 14p.
A reflection on the current state of nuclear non-proliferation and safeguards
Andreas Persbo, NP paper No.8, February 2012, 18p.
Not that bad: Looking back on 65 years of nuclear non-proliferation efforts
Sico van der Meer, ”, in Security and Human Rights, Vol. 22 (2011) No. 1, pp. 37-47.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in Historical Perspective ( in Spanish )
Vicente Garrido Rebolledo , in Colección de Estudios Internacionales, No. 7, 2011
The Emerging Powers and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regime
Tom Sauer, EGMONT Security Policy Brief, No. 27, September 2011
Perspectives on Extended Deterrence
Bruno Tertrais, Recherches & Documents N°03/2010 , 127p., Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
India, the Nuclear Deal, and Nonproliferation
Carsten Rauch and Hushed Hope, HSFK-Arbeitspapiere Nr. 7/2010, Frankfurt/M.
China and nuclear arms control: current positions and future policies
Bates Gill, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security, no. 2010/4, 20 pp., April 2010
Nonproliferation and Engagement: Iran and North Korea should not let the opportunity slip by: A comment on the actual state of affairs
Heinz Gärtner , OIIP Policy Paper, November 2009, 6 p.
International Proliferation Issues, National Consequences and Policy Recommendations
Bart Smedts, RHID Focus Paper 5, January 2009

NPT PROCESS

Weathering the storm: A scenario-based approach to strengthening the NPT
Patricia Jaworek, Max Hoell, Andreas Persbo, Adam Kobieracki, Carlo Trezza, Alexander Sorg, ELN, December 2023
Pragmatic Steps to reinforce the NPT on the way towards the 2026 Review Conference
Tarja Cronberg, Thomas Hajnozci, Valeriia Hesse, Jan Hoekema, Patricia Jaworek, Andreas Persbo, ELN, December 2023
The Inadmissibility of Nuclear Threats within the NPT Regime
Working Group 2 Policy Brief, European Leadership Network, July 2023
Strengthening the eleventh NPT Review Cycle:A diplomatic space for continuity and coordination
Michael Biontino et al., ELN Working Group 1, European Leadership Network, July 2023
Report: Regional Youth Perspectives on the NPT Review Process
Kim Obergfaell, Emerging Voices Network members, BASIC, June 2023
Further Strengthening the NPT Review Process: Reflections and Recommendations
Thomas Markram, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, VCDNP, May 2023
Nuclear Diplomacy Crossroads: What Future for the Stockholm Initiative in the Eleventh NPT Review Cycle?
Rishi Paul, Paul Ingram, BASIC, March 2023
Pillar III: the quiet success story of the NPT RevCon
Olamide Samuel, European Leadership Network, January 2023
After the Review Conference: The NPT Remains Robust
Jonas Schneider and Liviu Horovitz, GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS, December 2022
Working paper on strategic risk reduction
Maximilian Hoell, European Leadership Network and FRS, January 2022
Track 1.5 Meeting – Conference of the principals
Benjamin Hautecouverture and Emmanuelle Maitre, FRS, January 2022
Durable Institution under Fire? The NPT Confronts Emerging Multipolarity
Rebecca Davis Gibbons and Stephen Herzog, Contemporary Security Policy 43/1, November 2021
Nuclear Risk Reduction: Engaging the non-NPT Nuclear-Armed States
Wilfred Wan, UNIDIR, February 2021
Organisational matters relating to the postponed tenth (2020) NPT Review Conference
Tariq Rauf, European Leadership Network, February 2021
The importance of narrative in nuclear policymaking: a study of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Laura Considine, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Paper No. 72, January 2021
The 50th anniversary of the NPT: evolutions and perspectives [in French]
Emmanuelle Maitre and Bruno Tertrais, October 2020
Remaining relevant: Why the NPT must address emerging technologies
Heather Williams, King’s College London Centre for Science and Security Studies, August 2020
The P5 Process: Opportunities for Success in the NPT Review Conference
Shatabhisha Shetty and Heather Williams, ELN (European Leadership Network) and CSSS (Centre for Science and Security Studies), June 2020
Nuclear Planet: the NPT and Covid-19
Benjamin Hautecouverture, FRS, June 2020
Overcoming disunity: Reinvigorating the P5 Process a decade on
Maximilian Hoell, Andreas Persbo, European Leadership Network, July 2020
Nuclear risk reduction: How could the EU contribute?
Clingendael, Sico van der Meer, Clingendael, Sico van der Meer, 26 March 2020
Can Moscow and London find a way forward on the NPT?
The European Leadership Network (ELN), February 2020
REVITALISING THE NPT
Clara Portela, Senior Associate Analyst, EUISS
Policy Recommendations: Options for P5 Cooperation
The European Leadership Network (ELN), December 2019
The P5 Process: Ten years on
Maximilian Hoell, The European Leadership Network (ELN), September 2019
The State of Play and Challenges for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Łukasz Kulesa, PISM Bulletin, no 72 (1318), 30 May 2019
What to Look for in the 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee
Rebecca Johnson, The Acronym Institute, May 2019
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime towards the 2020 NPT Review Conference
Sahil Shah and Bernadette Stadler, Wilton Park, March 2019
Mission Impossible: Pursuing Arms Control with Putin’s Russia
Stephen Blank, European Leadership Network, January 2018
The NPT and the Origins of NATO’s Nuclear Sharing Arrangements
William Alberque, Proliferation Papers, No. 57, February 2017
The EU’s Performance in the 2015 NPT Review Conference: What Went Wrong
Megan Dee, European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol.20, Issue 4, pp. 591–608, December 2015
The Laboratory in Discord: the European Union at the 2015 NPT Review Conference
Michal Smetana, Security Brief 05/2015, 3 July 2015, 3pp.
Five years that will decide the fate of the NPT
Lukasz Kulesa, ELN, 1 June 2015
Russia, the 2015 NPT RevCon, and the INF Treaty
Petr Topychkanov , ELN, 10 June 2015
The 2015 NPT Review Conference: setting the record straight
Tariq Rauf, June 15, 2015
Reviewing the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Regimes
Riccardo Alcaro, IAI Working Paper, Issue 15/16, May 2015, 8pp.
VERTIC presents on nuclear disarmament work at NPT RevCon
21 May 2015
Gangs of New York: The 2015 NPT Revcon
Andrea Berger, ELN, 27 May 2015
NPT: cornerstone of nuclear non-proliferation or stumbling block?
Rebecca Johnson , Open democracy, 28 May 2015
Egypt shows NPT frustration in PrepCom walkout
Alberto Muti, Vertic Blog, 10 May 2013
Deux ans avant la Conférence de révision du TNP 2015 : Quelles avancées ?
Bérangère Rouppert, Note d’Analyse, GRIP, 23 May 2013, 8p. (in French)
The P5 discuss disarmament in Geneva
Rachel Staley, BASIC This Week, 16 April 2013
Wilton Park Conference Report: Global constituencies in the NPT regime: how to build consensus for 2015?
Sunday 2 – Wednesday 5 September 2012, WP1188, 9p.
Defusing the Bomb or just Chit-Chat? Cooperation between the European Union and Japan on the NPT
Stratos Pourzitakis, NP paper No. 17, June 2012, 18p.
The NPT review process and strengthening the treaty: disarmament
Harald Müller, NP paper No.10, February 2012, 18p.
The NPT review process and strengthening the treaty: peaceful uses
Giorgio Franceschini, NP paper No.11, February 2012, 16p.
Nuclear non-proliferation: what now after the 2010 NPT review?
Wilton Park Conference, Conference report for WP1062, 12p., December 2011
The nuclear non-proliferation regime: bridging the north-south divide
Wilton Park Conference, Conference report for WP1098, 9p., October 2011
Verification implications of the 2010 NPT review
David Cliff, Hugh Chalmers and Sonia Drobysz, VERTIC Brief, No.12, December 2010
The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: the 2010 NPT Review Conference
Vicente Garrido Rebolledo , in STRATEGIC PANORAMA 2009/2010, Ministerio de Defensa, May 2010
The Stability of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: State and Options (in German)
Harald Müller, HSFK-Report Nr. 11/2009, Frankfurt/M.
Non-proliferation and Disarmament: The “Golden Age” of the Irish Diplomacy (1957-1961) (in French)
Benjamin Hautecouverture, CESIM Historical Papers, June 2007

NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATIES

Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of global south countries
Andrew Futter & Olamide Samuel, Review of International Studies, (2023).
The supporters of the ban treaty are not a monolith
Michal Onderco, Valerio Vignoli, European Leadership Network, August 2022
Italy and the Nuclear Ban Treaty: A Hesitant Opening?
Ludovica Castelli, IAI, 16 juin 2022
When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands
Michal Onderco, Michal Smetana, Sico van der Meer and Tom Etienne, Erasmus University, October 2021.
Europe and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Névine Schepers, CSS Analyses in Security Policy n°286, June 2021
Interdire les essais : « Make the CTBT great again »
(in French), Lova Rajaoarinelina, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, February 2021
The nuclear test ban: legal fragility, strategic success, political uncertainties (In French)
Bruno Tertrais, FRS, July 2020
Donald Trump Could Lose the Election by Authorizing a New Nuclear Weapons Test
Stephen Herzog, Benoît Pelopidas and Fabrício Fialho (CERI Sciences Po), The National Interest, June 2020
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is in danger: Here’s how to save it
Maximilian Hoell, The European Leadership Network (ELN), August 2019
Banning Nuclear Tests: A New Dynamic?
Lassina Zerbo, A meeting with Dr. Lassina Zerbo, Discussed by Benjamin Hautecouverture (FRS) and Benoit Pelopidas (CERI), Sc Po/RINSA & FRS, Paris, February 14, 2018
“Unfinished Business”: Twentieth Anniversary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Tariq Rauf, Atomic Reporters, 26 September, 2016
Prometheus-bound: An end to nuclear explosive tests
Tariq Rauf, Commentary, 29 August 2016
Putting the CTBT into practice
Malcolm Coxhead and David Jepsen , VERTIC Brief, No. 10, December 2009
A New Look at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
International Group on Global Security, Clingendael Security Paper N°6, September 2008

NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONES

S6.E2: Better know a treaty: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
Perspectives, Drivers, and Objectives for the Middle East WMD-Free Zone: Voices from the Region
Tomisha Bino, James Revill, Chen Zak, UNIDIR, 25 March 2022
Nuclear Verification in a Middle East WMD Free Zone
John Carlson (Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the VCDNP), UNIDIR, January 2021
The Arms Control–Regional Security Nexus in the Middle East
Tytti Erästö, SIPRI, April 2020
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East and North Africa
Erzsébet N. Rózsa, MENARA Papers, IAI, November 2018
Cooperation among Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: History, Challenges and Recommendations
Harald Müller, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova et al., VCDNP Task Force Report, March 2018
The Pursuit of a WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East: A New Approach
Tomisha Bino, Chatham House, July 2017
From Nuclear Weapons to WMD: the Development and Added Value of the WMD-Free Zone Concept
Harald Müller, Aviv Melamud, Anna Peczeli, NP paper No.31, September 2013, 20p.
Negative Security Assurances in the Protocols Additional to the Treaties Establishing Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones
Marco Roscini , in "Obama and the Bomb - The Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons", Heinz Gartner, ed., Peter Lang, pp. 129-147, 2011
A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East
Heinz Gärtner , OIIP Policy Paper, April 2011/2, 6 p.
The “Nuclear-Weapon-Free Areas”: Current Situation, Achievements and New Challenges (in French)
Luc Mampaey, GRIP Note d’analyse, April 2010.
The Pelindaba Treaty: Africa and the challenge of nuclear proliferation (in French)
Cédric Poitevin, GRIP Rapport, 38pp., 2009
Something Old, Something New: The 2006 Semipalatinsk Treaty on a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia
Marco Roscini, in Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 593-624, 2008
Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones
Marco Roscini, LE ZONE DENUCLEARIZZATE, Turin: Giappichelli, pp. XVI-441, No. ISBN 88-348-3417-8, 2003
The Navigational Rights of Nuclear Ships
Marco Roscini, in Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 15, pp. 251-265, 2002
The South-East Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: International Law of the Sea Issues
Marco Roscini, in Revue Générale de Droit International Public, Vol. 105, pp. 617-645, 2001

SECURITY

BILATERAL ARMS CONTROL

Challenges to multilateral arms control
Timothy Wright, Research Article, Missile Dialogue Initiative, IISS, October 2023
Après New START : Démantèlement ou retour en grâce du régime de contrôle des armes nucléaires ?
(in French), Jean-Marie-Collin, GRIP, March 2021
Le Traité New Start: bilan et perspectives
Emmanuelle Maitre, Bruno Tertrais, Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, August 2020

DISARMAMENT

FISSILE MATERIALS

IAEA

NON-PROLIFERATION

NPT PROCESS

NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATIES

NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE ZONES

SECURITY

BILATERAL ARMS CONTROL