Written Evidence Statement and Testimony regarding: Legislation Resolution 0976-2019 on nuclear disarmament; and INT1621-2019, a bill to create a nuclear disarmament and nuclear weapons-free zone advisory committee, in conjunction with the public hearing on Tuesday,...
Nuclear Ban
House of Lords NPT Submission
Submission to the House of Lords International Relations Committee Inquiry on the NPT and nuclear disarmament. Written evidence submitted by Dr Rebecca Johnson on behalf of the Acronym Institute January 2019. To download this PDF please click on the link below:...
Acronym’s UN working paper on Deterrence
This working paper on "Security and humanitarian implications of relying on nuclear weapons for deterrence, and effective legal alternatives" was written by Rebecca Johnson and published by the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on taking forward multilateral...
Humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons – an imperative for achieving disarmament
Rebecca Johnson's chapter on "The humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons -- an imperative for achieving disarmament" was published in the journal of Irish Studies in International Affairs, volume 25, edited by John Doyle and published by the Royal Irish Academy,...
Banning nuclear weapons and unchaining from nuclear dependence
Rebecca Johnson's chapter on "Banning Nuclear Weapons: necessary and achievable (in our lifetimes) in World in Chains, edited by Angie Zelter, published by Luath Press, Edinburgh 2014. This book analyses the range of military, economic and political dependencies that...
OHMD Arms Control and Disarmament Diplomacy chapter
Dr Rebecca Johnson's chapter on the challenges and changing character of arms control and disarmament diplomacy was published in the 2013 ediition of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, edited by Andrew E. Cooper, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur, Oxford University...
Linking humanitarian law and nuclear disarmament action
Dr Johnson's article in volume 15 (2010) of the Austrian Review of International and European Law has historic significance as an early exploration of the new strategy undertaken by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in 2009. The Acronym...