Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh argues that the Biden Administration should use its Democratic Senate majority to ratify the Rarotonga and Pelindaba treaties.
Transatlantic Security
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.
Biden and No First Use: an Opportunity for the Taking
President Obama considered it, and as Vice-President, Biden advocated for it. Will the Biden Administration now commit to a No First Use policy?
Opinion: More Continuity Than Change? US Nuclear Weapons Policy Under a Biden or Trump Administration
Whether Americans vote Democrat or Republican on 3 November, there will likely be much continuity in US nuclear weapons policy, despite declarations in campaigning.
Pandemic Chronicles: Echos of History in the COVID-19 Response for the Navajo Nation
During the Cold War, hundreds of Navajos developed cancer and respiratory illness as a result…
Chronicles of the Pandemic: Missiles vs. Medical Masks
In the last Pandemic Chronicle, we explored whether we are at war with COVID-19. This…
Report: Reducing Nuclear Risks: European perspectives from the 2019 PrepCom
This report arises from a roundtable on ‘Developing European Perspectives on Nuclear Risks’ on 7 May 2019, hosted at the Polish Mission to the UN in New York and under the sponsorship of the Dutch Foreign Ministry during the 2019 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee.
Report: Reporting on Nuclear Disarmament – Success and Failure in 25 Years of Disarmament Diplomacy
Nuclear disarmament has fallen off the public agenda. Media attention is sporadic and reactive, focusing on short-term trends like summits with North Korea or sanctions on Iran. But the longer-term process of global disarmament rarely features in the news cycle and where there is reference it is treated with disdain as unrealistic. This has serious costs to public engagement and democratic accountability.