The New Atlantic Charter provides the first time that the specific language of ‘responsible state behaviour’ has been used publicly in an official capacity in relation to nuclear weapons.
Analysis
Bombs, Brexit Boys and Bairns: A Feminist Critique of Nuclear (In)security in the Integrated Review
Clare Duncanson and Catherine Eschle provide a feminist critique of the UK’s Integrated Review.
A View from Pakistan – Review of ‘Nuclear Responsibilities: A New Approach for Thinking and Talking About Nuclear Weapons’
Rabia Akhtar reviews the Nuclear Responsibilities Approach from a Pakistani perspective.
Conventional Arms Control and Nuclear Security: The Challenge of Conventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons
Guest author, Peter Rautenbach, explores the challenges of Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) weapons, and looks to arms control to mitigate the ensuing risks.
Could Person-Centered Security be America’s Future?
BASIC Policy Fellow, Emily Enright, explores President Biden’s security model, making the case for a Person-Centered approach to security moving forward.
Nuclear Responsibilities: A Chinese Perspective
This piece, by Mr Zhou Chang forms of a number of reflective pieces written by experts to respond to the Nuclear Responsibilities Approach and is co-published between BASIC, the ICCS and the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA).
Engagement without Recognition: A Pathway to China-India Risk Reduction Dialogue?
Recent deadly military incidents and an ongoing border conflict between China and India has led…
Hubris, Hypocrisy or Hedge?
The Integrated Review
In just 76 words highlighted below across three statements in the nuclear deterrent section of the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR), the UK government reversed its policy of gradual reduction of the variety, number and salience of its nuclear weapons in place through successive governments since the end of the Cold War.