Rabia Akhtar shows how a focus on nuclear responsibilities in South Asia opens up new possibilities for a dialogue that can contribute to developing a new shared framework for reducing risks, especially during times of crisis.
Nuclear Responsibilities

Report: Different Perceptions, Shared Understandings: Towards a Responsibility-Based Regime to Reduce Nuclear Risks in the Asia-Pacific
This report encapsulates the salient themes of discussion of the dialogue on Nuclear Responsibilities held in Dubai in March 2022.

Report: Exploring the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Responsibilities
In this report, Chiara Cervasio discusses the findings of the roundtable held by BASIC in London in October 2021, on the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Responsibilities.

Different Perceptions, Shared Understandings: Towards a Responsibility-Based Regime to Reduce Nuclear Risks in the Asia-Pacific
On 13 and 14 March 2022, the BASIC-ICCS Programme on Nuclear Responsibilities hosted the track 2/1.5 dialogue ‘Different Perceptions, Shared Understandings: Towards a Responsibility-Based Regime to Reduce Nuclear Risks in the Asia-Pacific’.

Emerging Technologies and The Nuclear Responsibilities Approach
This article highlights the impact of emerging technologies on the security of nuclear weapons and, in turn, on strategic stability. This article suggests that the Nuclear Responsibilities Approach can help mitigate the threat posed by the emerging technologies.

Events: Nuclear Responsibilities at the Tenth NPT Review Conference (January 2022)
Find more information on BASIC’s Side Events at the NPT Review Conference held in January 2022

The ‘Responsibility Turn’ in Nuclear Diplomacy
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.

The ‘Responsibility Turn’ in Nuclear Diplomacy
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.