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Programmes
Briefing: Leading by Example: Reforming UK Nuclear Declaratory Policy
By reforming its nuclear declaratory policy, the UK has an opportunity to demonstrate leadership by example on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation without negatively impacting its established nuclear deterrent posture.
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.
US Nuclear Posture Review
This is the full version of the US Nuclear Posture Review, first published on 2 February 2018 on the DoD website, and then apparently removed the following day.
BASIC co-hosts first Gender and International Affairs Breakfast at Chatham House
On Wednesday 13 December, Chatham House, with BASIC and The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), hosted a breakfast meeting on gender in international affairs, bringing together experts and practitioners from academia and the international affairs community from around the UK for an open-ended conversation under Chatham House Rules.
Report: Changing Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Trump Era: Implications for Europe
President Trump’s emerging nuclear policy presents ‘extraordinary challenges to strategic stability, arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation within Europe’, and undermines European security. President Trump’s US Nuclear Posture Review is expected in the next two months.
Is the DPRK’s Nuclear March Unstoppable?
The specter of nuclear conflict is not new for the Korean peninsula. As an occupied territory under the Japanese Empire, the Koreans could also…
Nuclear disarmament approaches after the Ban Treaty: a personal view
In the end the Ban Treaty is but one part of the complexity that is multilateral nuclear deterrence and disarmament diplomacy.