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...
Publications
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...
Nuclear Ban Treaty chapter
Read Rebecca Johnson's 2019 analysis of the Nuclear Ban Treaty's origins, provisions and purpose, just been published in the new book from the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment. Dr Johnson's chapter, titled 'The Nuclear Ban Treaty...
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...
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...