From 31 July to 11 August 2023, the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) takes place in Vienna. This will be the first of three planned … Continue reading →
Following the failure of the Review of Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty to reach agreement, the Swiss ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Félix Baumann, spent the whole month of August in New York City. In the following article, … Continue reading →
After four weeks of negotiation, the tenth five-yearly Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) ended on 26 August 2022 without reaching agreement. The Treaty aims to prevent the spread of nuclear … Continue reading →
On 3 January 2022 the five permanent members of the UN Security Council issued the following Joint Statement: The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the … Continue reading →
Which is true: 15% or 40% increase? It is frequently stated that the UK’s Integrated Review of Security published in 2021 includes a plan to increase the number of nuclear warheads in the UK arsenal by over 40%. For example, … Continue reading →
By Mohammed Aaqib LLM, LLB (Hons), Treasurer of United Nations Association Coventry Branch In an attempt to combat the stagnation of humanity’s global nuclear disarmament aspirations, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons[1] (TPNW) was ambitiously drafted in 2017. … Continue reading →
In March 2020, the United Nations Association Coventry Branch ran a debate on the motion “This house believes the UK government should sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”. This is also the demand made by the UK … Continue reading →
On July 7 a Conference convened by the UN General Assembly adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The text of the treaty can be found here. The vote which decided the text of this Treaty was … Continue reading →