Israel’s demand for peace, recognition and solidarity before the achievement of a WMD Free Zone is a tall bar to progress and fails to appreciate how further steps towards disarmament would contribute to improving the current security context of the Middle East.
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Pragmatic Leadership to achieve progress on disarmament: Finding Stepping Stones in the Step-by-Step approach
This is a roundtable report for the roundtable ‘Pragmatic Leadership to achieve progress on disarmament: Finding Stepping Stones in the Step-by-Step approach’, organised by BASIC in London on 22 November 2018.
NATO Leadership at the NPT: Finding Stepping Stones in the Step-by-Step Approach
The roundtable assessed the general health of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the state of nuclear disarmament and arms control, and what leadership means in creating a cooperative approach at the 2020 NPT Review Conference.
Prospecting for a Fissile Material (Cut-off) Treaty: Opportunities to Re-engage
Looking at the topography of the current global nuclear ‘order’, the casual observer might be…
Conflicting Paths to the Same Goal: Beijing, Washington and the North Korean Security Crisis
American policy and media discourse over China have recently hardened perceptibly due to several contentious issues in economics, geopolitics and security.
Europe must defend the INF Treaty and restraint in international diplomacy
On 20th October, President Trump announced his intention to “terminate” the INF Treaty, indicating that the United States would abrogate the deal. His move comes as a blow to international arms control, and especially to US allies in Europe, showing a careless disregard for diplomacy.
Congratulating BASIC Researcher Dr Tim Street
We would like to warmly congratulate former BASIC researcher Dr Tim Street, who has this month been awarded an ESRC-funded PhD Studentship from Warwick University, for his thesis ‘The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament’.
Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review Endangers Europe
Last Friday, the United States published its Nuclear Posture Review. If enacted this would undermine attempts to reduce nuclear tensions in Europe since the end of the Cold War.