Dr Johnson's January 2019 presentation to Shrivenham Defence Academy, UK, on the importance for our collective security of not undermining existing nuclear agreements, such as the 1987 INF Treaty, the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the 1968 NPT;...
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“From Greenham to the Nobel Peace Prize”, Presentation by Rebecca Johnson
Dr Johnson's January 2019 presentation at the newly opened Greenham Common Museum in the Air Traffic Control Tower of the former nuclear base where ground launched cruise missiles were deployed from 1983 until they were banned and eliminated under the 1987 INF...
As Trump and Kim shake hands, what does this mean for Koreans?
by Dr Rebecca Johnson via OpenDemocracy To implement the Singapore and Panmunjom commitments, what is needed is a collective plan to denuclearize security relations across North-East Asia. Two vain men met in Singapore, posed for the cameras and signed a...
The ‘Libyan Model’ is Unhelpful: Korea needs its Own Process for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
by Dr Rebecca Johnson via InDepthNews SEOUL (IDN) – I'm now in Seoul, taking part in the peace actions and international meetings organised by Women Cross the DMZ, referring to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. News has been dominated by...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – What was agreed, and why the UK should join
Dangerous and Inhumane: UK Nuclear Policy and Humanitarian Nuclear Ban Strategies by Rebecca Johnson
Dangerous and Inhumane: UK Nuclear Policy and Humanitarian Nuclear Ban Strategies by Rebecca Johnson Chapter 9 in Andrew Futter (ed.), The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 To download this PDF please click on the link...
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...
Civil society and banning nuclear testing
Rebecca Johnson's chapter "The role of civil society in negotiating the CTBT" in Banning the Bang or the Bomb? edited by Mordechai Melamud, Paul Meerts, and I.William Zartman, published by Cambridge University Press, 2014. This book deals with a range of analyses on...
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...