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Issue #3

April 2024

Read news of the Code, updates on our recent activities and latest information about ballistic missile tests and space launches.

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CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

  • Qatar announces its subscription to the Code
  • Chile takes over as new HCoC Chair
  • Looking back at the Irish Chairmanship of the HCoC

News about the Project

  • Side-Event in the Margins of the ARM
  • Middle East Regional Seminar organised in the UAE
  • HCoC Research Paper No°13 published

News about the Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • Iranian Missiles Reportedly Shipped to Russia
  • Missiles Launches in the Middle East

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contacts
May
2023
Issue Briefs

The HCoC and Strategic Risk Reduction

As a multilateral instrument, the HCoC holds a particular place in a global architecture of measures that attempts to reduce the destabilising nature of ballistic missiles. By promoting transparency about policies and launches, it aims to limit the risk of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and worst-case assessments.

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November
2025
Research Papers

The Shield and the Sword: The Impact of Ballistic Missile Defence on Missile Proliferation

Missile defence has become increasingly attractive in recent years, following the demonstration of its efficacity in the Israeli-Iranian conflict, and has epitomised by the ambitious Golden Dome programme. However, its relationship with missile proliferation is ambiguous. Arms control, non-proliferation and confidence building measures can to some extent address some of the most destabilizing features of this offense-defence competition.

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