The NPT at its Golden Anniversary Review
The ELN’s Andreas Persbo and Sahil Shah reflect on the recent Wilton Park Conference on nuclear non-proliferation and what awaits at the Review Conference in May.
The ELN’s Andreas Persbo and Sahil Shah reflect on the recent Wilton Park Conference on nuclear non-proliferation and what awaits at the Review Conference in May.
In October and November 2019, the European leadership Network (ELN) and King’s College London (KCL) hosted two workshops with experts and government officials from each of the P5 countries to explore cooperation ahead of the London conference and the NPT Review Conference in 2020. This policy memo captures many of the recommendations deliberated at the workshops.
ELN Policy Fellow Katarzyna Kubiak contributes on “Vertical Proliferation in Light of the Disarmament Commitment” in the freshly published book “Non-Nuclear Peace Beyond the Nuclear Ban Treaty”.
A decade on, ELN Policy Fellow Max Hoell analyses developments in the P5 process to date and recommends steps to overcome its current impasse.
A significant increase in the likelihood of nuclear war could motivate nuclear disarmament and risk reduction efforts. A Global Commission on Military Nuclear Risks is needed to authoritatively assess the trend line in risks and identify high-value mitigation options.
In diplomatic terms, the 2019 PrepCom was better than many expected, despite a failure to find consensus on many key issues, but what does this mean going forward to the 2020 Review Conference?