The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a landmark agreement in history nuclear disarmament movement. It was negotiated against wishes nuclear-armed states and many their supporters this context defines challenges opportunities for its universalisation. We argue that universalisation should be understood as strategy maximising authority treaty core norms principles across fou...

France ended fissile material production for military purposes in the 1990s and has started to decommission and dismantle its production facilities at Marcoule and Pierrelatte. This paper provides an overview of the French production complex and presents new estimates of historic fissile-material production, which include neutronics calculations for the production reactors at Marcoule. The anal...

Negotiated deeper cuts in the nuclear arsenals may place limits on the total number of nuclear weapons in states’ stockpiles, which could require inspections on hundreds or thousands of warheads or warhead components currently in storage or in dismantlement queues. The process of authenticating treaty limited items, e.g. with passive or active radiation measurements, is likely to be a critical ...

Journal Article Inheriting the bomb: collapse of USSR and nuclear disarmament Ukraine Get access Ukraine. By Mariana Budjeryn. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2022. 328pp. Pb.: £29.00. Isbn978 1 42144 586 1. Available as e-book. Rabia Akhtar Lahore, Pakistan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 5, Septemb...

Abstract In this essay, I propose five principles to make U.S. nuclear deterrence policy more just and effective in the future: sever link between mass killing of innocent civilians by focusing targeting on adversaries’ military power senior political leadership, not their population; never use or plan a weapon against any target that could be destroyed neutralized conventional weapons; reject ...