Abstract In recent decades, verification methods, technologies and procedures have been significantly developed further, both technically procedurally. The competence expertise of the IAEA CTBTO considerably improved national as well international research programmes developed. A global culture with a lot knowledge, experiences has evolved in some areas. When it comes to concrete reductions cre...

What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states decades, yet surprisingly little effort been devoted systematically theorizing drivers. This article aims begin filling this void. I proceed in three steps. First, discuss conceptual, material, and ideational features of renunciation arrive ...

The Adelphi Paper Abolishing Nuclear Weapons will play an important part in the whole nuclear disarmament initiative that was kicked off in 2007 by a combination of the Hoover Institution and Nuclear Threat Initiative's " Reykjavik Revisited " project; the Kissinger–Nunn–Perry–Shultz op-ed articles in the Wall Street Journal; Margaret Beckett's keynote address at have woven a strong fabric of p...

Nuclear fusion is widely promoted as the ultimate environmentally friendly solution to world’s energy demands. However, medium/long-term nuclear weapons proliferation risks from a hypothetical economy are rarely considered. Using risk assessment tools, this paper undertakes trial scoping of hazards arising technologies, focused on implications global ‘Mature Fusion Economy’ (MFE). In medium ter...