Nuclear Disarmament Highlights

Visit the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the following link for this Policy Brief by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow at The Simons Foundation, which traces the evolution of the "Humanitarian Initiative" that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted by the UN General Assembly on July 7, 2017.

See The Simons Foundation's Nuclear Disarmament Briefing Papers for occasional papers focussing on nuclear disarmament issues.

See The Simons Foundation's page on Canadian Defence Policy for briefing papers by Ernie Regehr, O.C., Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation.

Visit Arms Control Today at the link below for this analysis on options for reforming presidential nuclear launch authority by Dr. Bruce Blair, a member of the Princeton University research faculty, Co-founder of Global Zero, a former Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer, and a Peace Leader with The Simons Foundation.

Visit the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for this article by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow, which counters the anti-arms control agreement narrative that is currently dominant in the USA.

“I have briefed some 30 senators and House members on the nuclear protocol and how I think it ought to be revised.” — Bruce Blair, research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School. See the link below for Princeton Alumni Weekly's full interview with Dr. Bruce G. Blair, a Peace Leader with The Simons Foundation.

Visit the Vancouver Sun for this opinion by M.V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, and Lauren J. Borja, Simons Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia.

Visit Economic & Political Weekly for this article by M.V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, The University of British Columbia, and Zia Mian, Co-Director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Visit Newsweek at the link below for this opinion piece by Dr. John Burroughs, a Fellow at The Simons Foundation.

Visit The Hill at the link below for this commentary by Dr. John Burroughs, a Fellow at The Simons Foundation.