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Exploring the Driving Forces Behind Iran’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy: A Novel Methodological Approach Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mohammad Eslami
The perplexing nature of Iran’s nuclear program is evident in its simultaneous growth of enrichment capacity and the concurrent denial of any aspirations toward nuclear weapons development. This co...
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Nuclear Threats Under International Law Part II: Applying the Law Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anna Hood, Monique Cormier
Throughout the nuclear age, states have made a wide array of threats to use nuclear weapons. There is, however, often little clarity as to whether such threats are legal or illegal under internatio...
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Nuclear Threats Under International Law Part I: The Legal Framework Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Anna Hood, Monique Cormier
The international legal status of threats to use nuclear weapons is uncertain. In this article, we map existing prohibitions against nuclear threats at international law and seek to explain the sco...
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Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Sonali Huria
Published in Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2023)
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The Power of the Powerless: Lessons from the TPNW and Reflections on the Practice of Diplomacy Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Elayne G. Whyte
The negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was a milestone in the history of nuclear diplomacy and marks a remarkable example of the “power of the powerless” in taki...
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Legal Reflections on the Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Thomas Hajnoczi
While the shared objective of a nuclear-weapon-free world has always implied an element of irreversibility, the term as such has not been consistently used in important disarmament texts before. Th...
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Approaching Irreversibility in Global Nuclear Politics Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Hassan Elbahtimy
Despite growing interest in irreversibility, it remains one of the least-studied concepts in the nuclear disarmament and arms control literature. Scratch beneath the surface and it becomes clear th...
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The Irreversibility Paradox: What Makes for Enduring Arms Control and Disarmament Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Joseph Rodgers, Heather Williams
The principle of irreversibility poses a paradox for arms control. On the one hand, negotiators often seek to ensure that progress made in nuclear arms control is enduring and that agreements are r...
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Nuclear Weapons Production Complexes in a Disarmed World Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Hassan Elbahtimy, Ross Peel
Any effective nuclear disarmament regime will need to consider how to deal with the infrastructure that supported the development and maintenance of nuclear weapons. Such infrastructure carries wit...
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The Role of Verification in Supporting Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Alberto Muti, Grant Christopher, Noel Stott
The links between verification and irreversibility are not well understood. We show that verification and irreversibility are deeply linked and mutually supporting. To support this, we map activiti...
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Reducing Nuclear Threats in a Time of Peril Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Ambassador Alexander Kmentt
The perspectives of the non-nuclear majority of states are frequently disregarded in the security policy discourse dominated by major military powers. Given the current high level of nuclear risks ...
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Changing Security Environment in East Asia and Its Implications on Japan’s Nuclear Policy Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Michiru Nishida
The basic framework of Japan’s nuclear policy, consisting of four pillars, was established just before the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was opened for signature in 1968....
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Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament: Unmaking Nuclear Weapon Complexes Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Nick Ritchie
This article develops a framework for examining “irreversible nuclear disarmament” by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS). It argues that maximising the irreversibility of nuclear disar...
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Societal Verification of Nuclear Disarmament in the 21st Century: A Workshop Report Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Sara Al-Sayed, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian
The idea that citizens, including scientists, and civil society groups be responsible for the monitoring and verification of their state’s compliance with nuclear weapons reduction and prohibition ...
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Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Christopher J. Watterson
Published in Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2023)
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Biden Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review: Analysis and Assessment Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Mitsuru Kurosawa
The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) by the Biden Administration was published in October 2022. What is its focus and how should we evaluate it? How is it different from previous administrations? Does ...
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False Sense of Supremacy: Emerging Technologies, the War in Ukraine, and the Risk of Nuclear Escalation Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Marina Favaro, Heather Williams
ABSTRACT How will emerging technologies impact crisis escalation? What has been the escalatory – or de-escalatory – effect of emerging technologies in contemporary crises? And can the use of emerging technologies increase risks of nuclear use? To answer these questions, we use the ongoing war in Ukraine as a case study to identify how emerging technologies are being used in modern conflicts and the
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Renewing Nagasaki’s Citizen Diplomacy Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Shorna-Kay Richards
ABSTRACT For three quarters of a century, the hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) have stood firm in their quest to save humanity from nuclear annihilation. Through their voice and action, the people of Nagasaki City have demonstrated the strength of citizen diplomacy. The voice of Nagasaki can be heard everywhere – strong in its call that Nagasaki must remain the
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The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Stephen Herzog
Published in Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (Vol. 6, No. 1, 2023)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About US-Russia Strategic Stability Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Sarah Bidgood
ABSTRACT Bilateral strategic stability between the United States and Russia is not a new concept, but it is one that is both evolving and contested. It faces two interrelated challenges that make its operationalization difficult today. First, as Michael Gerson has observed, it has “no single, universally accepted definition”, and there is little agreement on “which factors contribute to and detract
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Nuclear Threats and Canada’s Disarmament Diplomacy Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Paul Meyer
ABSTRACT For the last ten years the Disarmament NGO Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (CNWC) has conferred a “Distinguished Achievement” award on an individual who has contributed to advancing nuclear disarmament. Paul Meyer, an Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, a Director of the Canadian Pugwash Group and a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament was
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Nuclear Energy and the Non-Proliferation Treaty: A Retrospective Examination Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Mycle Schneider, M. V. Ramana
ABSTRACT This commentary looks at how nuclear power has evolved in the last five decades since the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force in 1970. Using data on numbers of reactors constructed around the world, we show that the early expectations of a rapid growth of nuclear power plants around the world has not materialized. We also outline the trends in safeguards at
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The Impact of AI on Strategic Stability is What States Make of It: Comparing US and Russian Discourses Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Anna Nadibaidze, Nicolò Miotto
ABSTRACT Military applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are said to impact strategic stability, broadly defined as the absence of incentives for armed conflict between nuclear powers. While previous research explores the potential implications of AI for nuclear deterrence based on technical characteristics, little attention has been dedicated to understanding how policymakers of nuclear powers
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A Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Northeast Asia: Prospects and Insights from Other Regions Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Exequiel Lacovsky
ABSTRACT Building upon my book, “Nuclear Weapons Free Zones”, I assess the scope conditions for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ) in Northeast Asia. In particular, I evaluate the role of the value of common security for states as a way to cope with nuclear threats, regional economic cooperation, regional institutions, democracy, regional powers, and nonproliferation entrepreneurship. In addition, I
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The DPRK’s Changed Nuclear Doctrine: Factors and Implications Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Wook-Sik Cheong
ABSTRACT The Korean Peninsula is sliding irreversibly into a nuclear era. Since the Korean War, the nuclear threat of the United States toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a constant. The variable was whether the DPRK would acquire its own nuclear arsenal. But the conclusion that the DPRK reached during the talks in 2018–2019—and more broadly, over the past three decades
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Russia’s Nuclear Deployment, Posture and Alert Status in NEA in the Context of the Ukraine Situation Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Anastasia Barannikova
ABSTRACT The armed conflict in Ukraine that began roughly a year ago involves nuclear powers and will therefore have long-term implications for global security, nuclear deterrence, and the strategies of many countries. Its influence on Russia, which directly and openly participates in the conflict, is obvious. Russia will have to adjust its nuclear posture and deployment in the European theater in
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Introduction: China–India-Pakistan Nuclear Trilemma and the Imperative of Risk Reduction Measures Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Ramesh Thakur, Shatabhisha Shetty, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
ABSTRACT Geopolitical tensions in Southern Asia are characterized by shared borders, major territorial disputes, history of wars, political volatility and instability. This fraught dynamic is compounded by China–India–Pakistan nuclear relations or the nuclear “trilemma” which is shaped by military developments, threat perceptions, as well as alliance, adversary and deterrence relations between the
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Iran’s Drone Supply to Russia and Changing Dynamics of the Ukraine War Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Mohammad Eslami
ABSTRACT The Ukraine war has brought into sharper prominence the importance of drones in modern conflicts. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, which, contrary to Russia’s expectations, was neither short nor effortless. Relying on Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV), Ukraine managed to repel many attacks and even destroy Russian armaments in the initial stages of the war. Russia has revealed
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Strategic Risk Management in Southern Asia Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Feroz Hassan Khan
ABSTRACT Strategic stability at the China-India-Pakistan trijunction remains tenuous. The two dyads have endured conflicts over ideology, territorial disputes and power rivalry. Though drivers of conflict vary in each dyad, common aspirations and history of cooperative security agreements are worthy foundations for managing future strategic risks in Southern Asia. While each state in the strategic
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Humanizing the Victims: A Middle East Zone (MEZ) Free of Nuclear Weapons and the Historical Necessity of Including “Other Weapons of Mass Destruction” Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Zhenkai Tong
ABSTRACT With five nuclear-weapon-free-zones (NWFZ) in place, the Middle East Zone (MEZ), still undergoing negotiations, is the first NWFZ to include “other weapons of mass destruction” in its deliberations. This article seeks to examine the historical necessity of including other weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in the MEZ. It does so by first stressing the destructive and lingering consequences
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Revisiting Societal Verification for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control: The Search for Transparency Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Sara Al-Sayed
ABSTRACT The last couple of decades have seen a surge in non-state actors wielding increasingly accessible information and communication technologies to provide intelligence to relevant publics and governments on a range of issues, including on nuclear activities of concern. This has prompted the impression that more transparency would translate almost surely to a world secure from nuclear danger arising
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Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Porkkodi Ganeshpandian
Published in Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2022)
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DPRK and the CTBT: What Could Come Next after the Moratorium? Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Qiyang Niu, Haeyoon Kim, Zhaniya Mukatay
ABSTRACT At the 25th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), this paper seizes the opportunity of a self-imposed nuclear test moratorium by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), analyzes Kazakhstan’s experience in dismantling its nuclear test site, and proposes three policy recommendations as potential solutions to stir the DPRK to join
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The Hydroacoustic Network of the CTBT International Monitoring System: Access and Exploitation Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Steven J. Gibbons
ABSTRACT The hydroacoustic network of the International Monitoring System for verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty consists of six hydrophone array stations and five land-based seismic stations for recording T-phases. We provide a comprehensive overview of the network with details of the station configurations and data accessibility. Since 2014, data from all stations
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Mission Unaccounted: Japan’s Shift of Role in US Extended Nuclear Deterrence Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Kimiaki Kawai
ABSTRACT Japan’s security policy appears to be undergoing a qualitative change. Policymakers, however, have not provided sufficient explanation to the nation regarding such a shift. What is the qualitative change in Japan’s security policy premised on US extended nuclear deterrence? To answer this question, this article first analyzes changes both in Japanese policymakers’ understanding of US extended
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Counterfactual thinking & nuclear risk in the digital age: The role of uncertainty, complexity, chance, and human psychology Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-07-25 James Johnson
ABSTRACT Will emerging technology increase the possibility of nuclear war? Given the multitude of ways emerging technology intersects with nuclear weapons, critical thinking about an imagined future that goes beyond net assessment, myopic mirror-imaging, and extrapolation of present trends should be a core task of policymakers. This article builds on the notion of “future counterfactuals” to construct
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Introduction: The Path Forward to a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Emad Kiyaei
ABSTRACT The idea of a weapons of mass destruction-free zone (hereafter WMDFZ, or simply “zone”) in the Middle East is decades old and was first proposed by Egypt in 1990 with support from Iran. Such a zone aims to eradicate chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons from all 22 Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Iran and Israel. Realizing a WMDFZ in the Middle East is paramount
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Chemical and Biological Weapons in Regional Disarmament in the Middle East and North Africa Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jean Pascal Zanders
ABSTRACT In November 2019, a new series of annual one-week meetings began to eliminate non-conventional arms – essentially nuclear weapons, and to a lesser extent chemical and biological weapons (CBW) – from the arsenals in the Middle East. It followed the acceptance of Egypt’s proposal for a new conference by the First Committee of the UN General Assembly on 22 December 2018. The new Conference derives
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Towards an Achievable WMDFZ Treaty for the Middle East: Insights from Civil Society Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Sharon Dolev, Leonardo Bandarra
ABSTRACT Establishing a Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-Free-Zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East is a decades-old ambition. The idea of establishing “The Zone” has been regularly re-addressed at the United Nations and in forums like the NPT Review Conferences. This article contributes to that process by exploring possible pathways to a working and sustainable treaty crafted for the region. We argue that such
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Missing in Action: Missiles Control in the Middle East Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Hassan Elbahtimy
ABSTRACT Advanced ballistic and cruise missiles have become a salient feature of the Middle Eastern security landscape. More states are either developing indigenous production capabilities or importing these missiles than ever before and their use has also become a frequent occurrence in regional conflicts. Despite that the issue remains one of the least examined aspects of regional arms control. This
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The Security of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones: The Middle East as a Test Case for Unconditional Security Assurances Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Tarja Cronberg
ABSTRACT A just nuclear order based on voluntary abstinence by states and the promotion of nuclear weapon-free zones would require more credible negative security assurances than provided by the current non-proliferation regime. The question here is: how to create the necessary conditions for such a change? The negative security assurances issued to the non-nuclear states in general and to the existing
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TPNW, the Caribbean and the Disarmament Politics of Small Island States Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Shorna-Kay Richards
ABSTRACT The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a historic achievement of many years of sustained advocacy and diplomacy by a deft coalition of governments, intergovernmental organizations and civil society. This was done against all odds and in the face of staunch opposition from nuclear weapon states and their allies. The TPNW’s adoption is viewed in some quarters as a revolt
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The Quest for a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East: History, Lessons Learned, and the Way Forward Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Wael Al Assad
ABSTRACT It has been almost five decades since the initiative to transform the Middle East into a zone free of nuclear weapons was launched in the UN General Assembly in 1974. Despite sustained diplomatic efforts by the Arab states, the zone remained an unrealized concept that is stuck in the pre-negotiation phase. For every step forward there were two backward. The history of the zone is littered
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The Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the IAEA General Conference: Is There a “Grand Strategy” behind the IAEA Track? Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Jasmine Auda, Tomisha Bino
ABSTRACT While Review Conferences of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons are generally considered the main multilateral forum for discussing the Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone, they are only one of three other multilateral forums that have the zone on their agenda. The often overlooked forum, which represents the main subject of this commentary, is the General
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the Middle East Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Nabil Fahmy
ABSTRACT Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament in the Middle East are a sine qua non for security and stability in the region. Addressing them is of paramount importance and urgency if further breakouts are to be prevented. This has to be done in a comprehensive manner without prejudice or preference. The renewed JCPOA negotiations should be a stepping stone in the direction of establishing a Nuclear
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Japan’s Reliance on US Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Legality of Use Matters Today Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Kimiaki Kawai
ABSTRACT Japan declares in its security policy that US extended nuclear deterrence is “essential”. However, policymakers do not seem to have provided sufficient explanation of the legality and the implications of the use of nuclear weapons, even if they argue that the policy of extended nuclear deterrence is essential. From the perspective of international law, three questions can be identified in
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Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise and Revival of Arms Control Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Sharon Squassoni
(2022). Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise and Revival of Arms Control. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. Ahead of Print.
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The Deliberate Employment of US Nuclear Weapons: Escalation Triggers on the Korean Peninsula Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Daryl G. Press
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the conditions under which the United States might use nuclear weapons during a war on the Korean Peninsula. It identifies several circumstances that might trigger such a decision, the purposes of a US nuclear strike, and the plausible targets. Attention is focused on the roles that nuclear weapons continue to play in US military operations and foreign policy strategy
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Preface for J-PAND Supplement Issue: Project on Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia (NU-NEA) Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-04-10 David F. von Hippel, Peter Hayes, Shatabhisha Shetty, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Fumihiko Yoshida
ABSTRACT This supplement issue of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament presents the papers commissioned in 2021 to support the Project on Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia (NU-NEA). The NU-NEA project was developed to study the risk contours and conflict terrain for war and nuclear escalation in and around the Korean peninsula. This study is being carried out in part by
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The Peace Movement and the Ukraine War: Where to Now? Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Andrew Lichterman
ABSTRACT In the absence of mass peace movements, how should the work of peace and nuclear disarmament go forward in the shadow of the Ukraine war? The attack on Ukraine by the government of Russia is an illegal war of aggression and must be strongly condemned. There should be immediate and unconditional negotiations to end hostilities, and then to work towards a fair and inclusive common security framework
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Potential Use of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in a Korean Context Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Eva Lisowski
ABSTRACT This report explores the potential uses of low-yield nuclear weapons in the context of a possible conflict on the Korean Peninsula. It starts with a definition of low-yield weapons – typically, weapons with yields of ten kilotons or less that are designed to be nonstrategic or “tactical” weapons used with shorter-range delivery systems, prepared for the purpose of attacking troops or battlefield
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The Role of Missile Defense in North-East Asia Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-27 David Wright
ABSTRACT This paper discusses specific types of missile attacks the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) might launch in a conflict and identifies the key sources of uncertainty that US and allied political and military leaders must take into account in assessing how effective defense systems might be in stopping these attacks. A key finding is that while missile defenses might be able to blunt
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Reducing or Exploiting Risk? Varieties of US Nuclear Thought and Their Implications for Northeast Asia Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Van Jackson
ABSTRACT This article argues that there is no monolithic “United States perspective” when it comes to theories of nuclear stability, either structurally or during a crisis. Instead, the propensity of American policymakers to use or invest in nuclear weapons is heavily conditioned by their political and ideological orientation. There has always been a rough ideological divide between nuclear hawks (those
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Nuclear-Use Cases For Contemplating Crisis And Conflict On The Korean Peninsula Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Paul K. Davis, Bruce W. Bennett
ABSTRACT This paper motivates and sketches a set of nuclear-use cases involving conflict on the Korean peninsula. The cases reflect a wide range of ways that nuclear weapons might be brandished or used in a Korean crisis. We identify possible cases by using two different lenses: a “logical” or taxonomic lens and a decisionmaking lens that asks how an actual national leader might decide to use nuclear
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Prospects for DPRK’s Nuclear Use Scenarios and Deterrence Measures of the US and ROK Alliance Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Sangkyu Lee
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to develop cases for the DPRK’s use of nuclear weapons. As background, firstly, the deterrence and countermeasure strategies of the United States-ROK alliance in the face of the increasingly sophisticated DPRK’s nuclear threat is examined. Then, the DPRK’s nuclear capabilities and nuclear strategy are investigated, and nuclear use cases are presented in detail
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Korean Peninsula Nuclear Issue: Challenges and Prospects Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Anastasia Barannikova
ABSTRACT For the last three decades the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue (KPNI) has been considered as one of the most serious threats to security and stability in NEA (Northeast Asia). To date, none of the efforts by the international community – including Six-party talks, pressure and diplomatic efforts, and more recently, activity started by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 2018-2019
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Arms Control and Delivery Vehicles: Challenges and Ways Forward Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Emmanuelle Maitre
ABSTRACT Nuclear arms control remains a priority for the foreseeable future for many stakeholders, and proposals have emerged to focus on capping nuclear warheads of the main nuclear-weapon states. However, delivery vehicles are another source of instability and arms race dynamics. Whether they are coupled with weapons of mass destruction or considered exclusively in the context of their use with conventional
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An Introduction to the Special Feature on the Biden Nuclear Posture Review Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Nobuyasu Abe
ABSTRACT The US Biden administration is conducting its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR); the resulting report is expected to come out in early 2022. In this introductory essay to the special feature on the upcoming NPR and its implications for US Asian allies, the guest editor Nobuyasu Abe provides an overview of three articles.
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The Biden Nuclear Posture Review and Its Implications for US Asia-Pacific Allies Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Nobuyasu Abe
ABSTRACT US President Joe Biden is expected to issue a new Nuclear Posture Review report soon. It may include as a policy goal a reduction of the role of nuclear weapons in US military strategy. In that context, the issue of the modernization of the US nuclear deterrent will be addressed. Even if the land-based leg of the triad were somehow curtailed, the United States would be able to keep its allies
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Advancing Nuclear Test Verification without Entry into Force of the CTBT Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Mao Sato
ABSTRACT Seventy-six years after the atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world continues to face challenges to the existing arms control framework, part of the broader problem of the stagnation of multilateralism. There is a desperate need to reinvent the architecture of nuclear disarmament. While it seems almost impossible for the political deadlock to be broken with regard to entry