The Nonproliferation Review/Fall 1998 56 Dr. Benjamin Cole is currently a freelance researcher. He received a Ph.D. from Southampton University in 1996. Dr. Cole has previously held research posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Mountbatten Center for International Studies at the University of Southampton. SOFT TECHNOLOGY AND TEC...

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is a historic achievement many years sustained advocacy and diplomacy by deft coalition governments, intergovernmental organizations civil society. This was done against all odds in face staunch opposition from nuclear weapon states their allies. TPNW’s adoption viewed some quarters as revolt or uprising majority nations realm disarmament ...

On 22 January 2021, the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force. The TPNW has resulted in a mixed response from international community, instigating much discussion certain provisions and features TPNW. Yet underpinning these analyses rests commonly shared premise; that constitutes further example humanitarian disarmament, placing interests victims humanity a...

Nuclear weapons pose a grave threat to the health of children. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which for almost 40 years has limited the spread of nuclear weapons, is in danger of unraveling. At the 2000 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, 180 countries, including the United States, agreed on 13 practical steps to implement Article VI of the treaty, which calls for nuclear d...