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Issue #6

December 2025

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

  • Insights From The Chair: The Uruguayan Vision For The HCoC

News about the Project

  • Workshop on the HCoC in Djibouti
  • Youth Group Report
  • Regional Seminar in Pretoria
  • The Sword and the Shield: Report and Webinar
  • Security, Technology, and Cooperation: The Future of the HCoC

News about Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • New strategic systems in China
  • Missile parade in DPRK
  • Selected missiles tests
  • Selected SLV launches

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Selected Publications

Information and contact
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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