Nuclear Talks With Iran: Will New EU and US Roles Make a Difference?
…to admit that sanctions could slow progress in the country’s nuclear efforts. Salehi said that while sanctions “will not stop” Iran’s nuclear program, “[o]ne can’t say sanctions are ineffective.” EU,…
The Human Dimension Is Key to Controlling Proliferation of WMD
…the equation. This is evidenced by the decisions on the part of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus to forego nuclear weapons state status-respectively the third, fifth and eighth largest nuclear weapons…
Leveraging UN Sustainable Development Goals and UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Synergies: The Case for Responsible Chemical Management
…Parties’ obligations under other threat-specific treaties such as the Biological Weapons Convention, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).3Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling,…
MATCH: Leveraging Blockchain for Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation
Introduction Since its entry into force in 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its implementing body, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have achieved great success…
Preventing Biological and Chemical Weapons Proliferation during COVID-19
…Weapons (OPCW); the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and the BWC Implementation Support Unit (BWC-ISU); and United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) and the 1540 Committee. COVID-19, the…
Unblocking the Road to Zero: US and Russia
…nuclear powers need to overcome to achieve a world without nuclear weapons? These questions are explored in Unblocking the Road to Zero – Volume V: Russia and the United States. …
India, Pakistan, and the nuclear humanitarian initiative: Let’s be real
The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons is seen asone of the wild cards at the upcoming NPT Review Conference. In recent years, a growing number of non-nuclear weapons states (of the New…
Spent Nuclear Fuel in China
Highlights 5,849.8 tHM spent nuclear fuel in storage (2016) 111,290 tHM spent nuclear fuel projected by 2050 1991 First year of commercial nuclear operation 48 operating nuclear power reactors 16…