All Highlights

Visit the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament at the link below for this article co-authored by Professor M.V. Ramana, Ph.D., the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia, and Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar of the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

See the link below for this presentation made by Paul Meyer, The Simons Foundation's Senior Fellow in Space and Cyber Security, at the 2019 Space Security Conference hosted by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on May 28-29, 2019.

See The Simons Foundation's Arctic Security Briefing Papers for information on military policies and practices in the Arctic region by Ernie Regehr O.C., Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation

Visit The Hill Times at the link below (subscription required) for this commentary by The Simons Foundation Peace Leader, The Hon. Douglas Roche, on U.S. plans to spend $100,000 per minute on the maintenance and expansion of nuclear weapons.

Visit OpenCanada.org for commentary by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow at The Simons Foundation, on the perils the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is facing and a critique of the US initiative to “create the environment for nuclear disarmament” which distracts from the compliance problem the US has created itself.

See the the following for a review of Srdjan Vucetic's article: “A Nation of Feminist Arms Dealers? Canada and Military Exports” by Ernie Regehr, The Simons Foundation's Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence.

See The Simons Foundation's Arctic Security Briefing Papers for information on military policies and practices in the Arctic region by Ernie Regehr O.C., Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence at The Simons Foundation.

Visit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the link below for this article co-authored by Professor M.V. Ramana, Ph.D., the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia, and Aileen Murphy, the recipient of the UBC Simons Award in Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security.

Visit Arms Control Today at the link below (subscription required) for this article by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow at The Simons Foundation.  It takes a critical look at a new US policy departure with respect to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and suggests other remedial measures that nuclear weapon states can take in advance of the crucial 2020 NPT Review Conference. 

On March 28, 2019, the winners of the 2018-2019 Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation competition presented their papers as part of the 2019 Global Affairs Canada Forum on Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament and Space hosted by Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa and the Awards Ceremony was held during a special reception for the winners that evening.