Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Disarmament

BASIC works with governments, academics, think tanks and journalists to build momentum behind innovative, practical steps towards nuclear arms control and disarmament. Using our tried and tested methodology around dialogue and active listening, we work collaboratively with states to help them identify and overcome the barriers to multilateral disarmament. We see this as a critical principle and pragmatic enterprise that has to absorb competing political and social objectives at national and international level.

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BASIC works in this policy area at the national and international levels. In 2017, BASIC published Meaningful Multilateralism, comprising 30 actionable proposals on nuclear disarmament and arms control for the UK Government. In the approach to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in 2020, BASIC has sought to identify diplomatic opportunities for states to more clearly outline the circumstances under which they would contemplate the use of nuclear weapons, through the issuance of ‘negative security assurances.’
We are grateful for the generous support of the  Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Global Affairs Canada, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Network for Social Change, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation, the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and all of our donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Analysis and Publications for this Programme

Active Programmes

BASIC believes in making progress on nuclear disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation through multiple complementary approaches. We continuously develop our programmes – streams of research – through sustained engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, collectively searching for the art of the possible.

Our current programmes are listed below. View the current programmes page by clicking here.