The contemporary nuclear order and the status of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which stands at its core, have never been more critical or under siege. Between Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling over the war in Ukraine, North Korea’s nuclear build-up, and developments in the Iranian nuclear program, our need to understand nuclear…
Tag: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 15-35 on Gibbons, The Hegemon’s Tool Kit
The nuclear nonproliferation regime (NPR) is widely seen as the most powerful international organization in the world. Composed of many international agencies, think tanks, government departments, and academic institutes, and funded by major donor groups and the governments of many of the world’s most powerful countries (above all, the US), its influence and sheer institutional…
H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 15-25 on Kaplow, Signing Away the Bomb
On 17 October 1958, Irish Foreign Minister Frank Aiken proposed a resolution at the United Nations (UN) that called on that body to explore ways to prevent the “further dissemination of nuclear weapons.”[1] After Aiken’s initial effort did not succeed, Ireland reintroduced variations of the resolution every year until the UN General Assembly, on 4…