Abstract The recent targeted strike resulting in the death of Qassem Soleimani has received extensive attention for its violations international law by US. However, one area that not been considered following 3 January 2020 attack is possible consequences this may have Iran's nuclear non-proliferation legal obligations. Iranian officials previously alluded to possibility Iran withdrawing from T...

The continuing political and economic instability in the former Soviet Union has exacerbated a series of related proliferation threats in the region. Two recent conferences organized by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies revealed new information regarding problems in physical protection of nuclear materials and facilities, the implementation of export controls, and divergent views on the u...

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) July 7, 2017. The is a legal instrument that highlights humanitarian aspect nuclear disarmament and provides an alternative to approach Non-Proliferation (NPT). Because this sought eliminate weapons, nuclear-weapon states (NWS) whose security based deterrence, criticized it for weakening NPT. Howe...

The Nonproliferation Review (NPR) recently interviewed Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte of Brazil, who presided over the 2005 Seventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Ambassador Duarte discussed his views on the outcome of the conference and the future of the treaty. He provided NPR with valuable insights into the outcome of the conference and...

The history of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) demonstrate that peaceful nuclear energy is a myth. As our January 2007 Briefing, “Civil Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”, explains promoting ‘peaceful’ nuclear power has accelerated nuclear weapons proliferation. Nuclear reactors in India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Kore...

U.S. nuclear export policy has undergone major transformations since 1945, and the most recent change, as expressed in the July 18, 2005, India-U.S. Joint Statement, represents an especially significant shift in policy. The document reverses more than a quarter century of U.S. declaratory policy, suggesting that the current U.S. administration regards nuclear proliferation to be both inevitable...

Artikel ini membuktikan bahwa pakta AUKUS telah melanggar Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968 (NPT). Pakta merupakan perjanjian kerjasama antara Australia, Inggris, dan Amerika Serikat dalam pengembangan teknologi bidang pertahanan, termasuk didalamnya transfer kapal selam bertenaga nuklir. menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif dengan sumber utama adalah bahan hukum yang berisi aturan-aturan...

Dr. Victor Bragin has been involved in the development of a fissile material cut-off treaty since 1994, first as Safeguards Analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and since January 1996 as Safeguards Adviser at the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO). Mr. John Carlson is Director-General of ASNO, and is a statutory officer responsible directly to the Australian...

First put forth by Hedley Bull in the 1970s, notion of ‘accommodation’ is an often-neglected approach to understanding role, rights and responsibilities emerging nuclear powers from Global South order. The existing literature looks at avenues conditions through which institutions order grant accommodation. However, analysis demands raised rising various stages order's development severely lacki...