2013 NPT PrepCom

Implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan: Disarmament, 2013 Monitoring Report

An updated report on implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan's disarmament section released ahead of the 2nd NPT PrepCom.
[Download the Full Paper or Executive Summary]
By Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova
Posted: April 5, 2013

2013 NPT Briefing Book

"The Briefing Book is the most comprehensive source of background and reference material on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and its associated regime."
By CNS and King's College

CNS Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes

A regularly-updated public reference covering all international organizations, treaties, and agreements relevant to WMD disarmament and nonproliferation.

Reports by Reaching Critical Will

Reaching Critical Will, in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Government of Switzerland, has produced three monitoring reports on the implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan:

Report #1: "Peaceful uses of nuclear energy" (published June 2011)

Report #2: Non-proliferation (published September 2011)

Report #3: Nuclear disarmament (published January 2012)

Deconstructing Consensus

The 2010 NPT Review Conference

The 2010 NPT RevCon took place in New York on May 3-28, 2010. In this report, CNS experts give a first-hand account and analysis of the events that unfolded in New York.
By William Potter, Patricia Lewis, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, and Miles Pomper

Peace Boat Horizon 2012

Sailing in the Same Boat Toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in the Middle East

By Randy Rydell, 27 March 2012

Moving Forward?

Reducing and Regulating Tactical (Nonstrategic) Nuclear Weapons in Europe

A panel discussion held between sessions of the RevCon on May 10, 2010.

At the event, held in the lunchtime break between sessions of the 2010 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference, CNS experts briefed NPT diplomats, governmental officials, and nongovernmental organizations on its new report.

Through a Glass Darkly

Transparency, Nuclear Weapons, and the United Nations

"A fundamental purpose of "transparency" in disarmament is to address one of the most challenging criticisms found in the dirty dozen—namely, that there just never seems to be a sufficient level of "trust" or "confidence" to permit serious progress toward zero. This is ironic, since one of the whole purposes of transparency is to alleviate just such concerns: confidence-building could even be called the raison d'être of transparency."
By Randy Rydell, 30 March 2012