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Published in: 50.50Banning nuclear weapons: this time lip service will not be enoughA new grassroots network launches this week with the twin aims of scrapping Trident and persuading the UK to join...
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Published in: 50.50Standing on the threshold: banning nuclear weaponsOn the 25th anniversary of the first real disarmament agreement of the Cold War, Rebecca Johnson looks back at how...
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Published in: HomeLondon to host one of the world's biggest arms fairs and why it shouldn't happen.After being home to several Olympic competitions this summer, London's ExCel Centre is to host one of the world's...
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Published in: 50.50Facing up to the humanitarian consequences of nuclear policies and mistakes
The NPT PrepCom Review in Vienna closed by underlining the majority view that “any use or threat of use of nuclear...
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Published in: HomeDisarmament is more practical than we are conditioned to think
As attention shifts to the NATO summit in Chicago, a statement by sixteen non nuclear weapons states, including...
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Published in: 50.50Summoning political will to rid the Middle East of WMD
Time is running out for the long anticipated conference in Helsinki on how to establish a nuclear free zone in the...
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Published in: 50.50Non-Proliferation Treaty: the ground is shifting
Civil society, the Non-Aligned Movement, and a cross regional group of 16 countries have brought humanitarian...
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Published in: 50.50Is the nuclear non-proliferation regime fit for purpose?
While the world turns, nuclear weapons are modernised and revalued in nine nuclear-armed states, causing a growing...
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Published in: 50.50Fukushima: a foreseeable consequence of nuclear dependency
The Fukushima nuclear disaster was both avoidable and inevitable. Nuclear technologies have too many inherent risks...
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Published in: 50.50After Fukushima
As we pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons, we also need to phase out reliance on nuclear energy. Both are...
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Published in: 50.50No more 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
As a political instrument of power projection and status, nuclear weapons carry a peculiarly masculine symbolism. In...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia and the NPT: what next?
The possibilities of India joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a Non-Nuclear Weapon State are bleak....
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Published in: 50.50NPT: challenging the nuclear powers' fiefdom
The NPT Review provided a bridge between the partial non-proliferation approach of the NPT and the comprehensive...
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Published in: 50.50NPT: the gulf between the nuclear haves and have-nots
The key question as the conference enters the endgame is whether the P-5 nuclear weapon states are willing to drop...
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Published in: 50.50NPT conference: half time glass half full
Frustration at the failure of nuclear weapon states to honour the agreements made at previous NPT Conferences is...
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Published in: 50.50United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go?
Unless the role and value assigned to nuclear weapons in deterrence is challenged among the nuclear-armed states,...
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Published in: 50.50Jody Williams: The true path to nuclear non-proliferation
Statement by Jody Williams, Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative at the Review Conference of the Nuclear...
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Published in: HomeNPT: The word from Washington
On May 5, three high level US officials gave to a large crowd in Conference Room 4 a report on US nuclear policy.
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear weapons: beyond non-proliferation?
The stakes are high and the outcome too close to call as the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens...
