A recent RAND report, released just two days after Wikileaks opened its Vault 7 that detailed the CIA’s entire stockpile of vulnerabilities and their suite of cyber tools (also referred as exploits), seeks to establish a protocol and the advantages of state intelligence agencies maintaining classified vulnerability stockpiles.
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UK revokes ICJ jurisdiction over its nuclear weapons
The UK Government has inhibited the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from ruling on cases about nuclear weapons or nuclear disarmament, including if it uses Trident against another country.
Mainstreamed or Sidelined? Non-NPT States and the Nuclear Order
Our Project Leader, Sebastian Brixey-Williams, asked a Carnegie panel of nuclear practitioners from India, Israel, and Pakistan whether they saw their states as responsible nuclear states, and what criteria they use to make such an assertion.
Nuclear non-proliferation: Planning for 2020
Each December, Wilton Park, the UK Foreign Office conference centre, hosts an international conference on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. In 2016, BASIC Director Paul Ingram authored the official report.
China’s UUV seizure was about undersea dominance
As the USNS Bowditch was recovering a UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle, or underwater drone) in the South China Sea on 15th December, a light-fingered Chinese Navy salvage ship reportedly called Naniju swooped in and took it in spite of repeated bridge-to-bridge demands to return the craft.
Opportunities for effective strategic dialogue: bridging the nuclear deterrence and disarmament constituencies
In times when evidence-based policy making approaches are under assault, communities that devote themselves to managing the dangers of strategic competition and nuclear arms racing need to come together to consider ways to realise their common objectives.
Implications of the Marshall Islands Case for nuclear disarmament
On 5th October, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected proceedings made by the Republic of the Marshall Islands against three nuclear-armed states – India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom – for alleged failure to negotiate on the cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament.
The 2016 OEWG Conference Advocates for Prohibition Treaty
This analysis is based on the fourth draft of the OEWG report, found here.