This briefing titled Making the NPT Work for Global Security, is aimed at participants in the lead-up to the 2026 NPT Review Conference. It highlights the dangers of misconceived deterrence beliefs that are leading some nuclear-armed leaders and allies to carry out...
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AIDD working paper on TPNW, multilateral security assurances and preventing nuclear use
AIDD's working-paper on 'How the TPNW can build confidence and strengthen security assurances for disarmament and regional security without nuclear weapons', published by the UN during the Third Meeting of TPNW States Parties in New York, March 3 - 7, 2025,...
AIDD working paper on Practical Steps to prevent nuclear use, published by the UN as TPNW/MSP/2023/NGO/13
This working paper from AIDD on ‘Preventing Nuclear Use and Dangers: Practical Steps to take forward Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ gives a brief description of steps that need to be taken by nuclear-armed governments. This was...
AIDD working paper for TPNW on Practical steps to prevent and disarm nuclear weapons use
AIDD working paper for TPNW on Practical steps to prevent and disarm nuclear weapons use, published by the UN during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW, November 2023, as TPNW/MSP/2023/NGO/13
AIDD Working Paper for TPNW on Preventing Nuclear Use
AIDD working paper issued by the TPNW Second Meeting of States Parties on Preventing Nuclear Use and Dangers: Practical Steps to take forward Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This was issued as TPNW/MSP/2023/NGO/13 ...
AIDD working paper TPNW/MSP/2022/NGO/33
AIDD's 2022 working paper on 'Ways to strengthen international security and pursue nuclear disarmament using the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons' AIDD Acronym Inst WP on TPNW role in preventing nuclear use NGO.WP.33 June 2022
Nuclear Weapons are Banned: What does that mean for Britain?
Analysis published in March 2022 of the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Looks at the implications for the UK as a nuclear-armed state as the TPNW has entered into international legal force and is going to hold its first Meeting of States...

NPT and UN Nuclear Ban: Friends not Rivals

UN talks to ban nuclear weapons: what can they achieve?
What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse to join the talks? by Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy Although most nuclear-armed governments have made a point of publicly endorsing the goal...

Why the UK was wrong to back Trump’s envoy against UN nuclear disarmament talks
Ignoring protests from the US, UK and some NATO countries, two-thirds of UN member states appear determined to conclude a nuclear ban treaty this year. by Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy Ground-breaking talks at the United Nations – negotiating a treaty to ban...