For its annual diplomatic workshop, the VCDNP convened 55 ambassadors, senior diplomats, and experts for intensive discussions on challenges for multilateral nuclear diplomacy, expectations for the 2024 NPT PrepCom, the nuclear security regime after ICONS 2024, and the impact of artificial intelligence in the nuclear domain.
Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Director of the International Organisations and Non-Proliferation Programme, briefed the UN Security Council on the importance of Council action to prevent the use of nuclear weapons.
Following the 2023 NPT Preparatory Committee meeting and the Working Group of further strengthening the review process, the VCDNP held a high-level panel discussion on the meetings’ outcomes.
Senior Research Associate Noah Mayhew comments on how the AUKUS partnership was addressed at the 2023 NPT PrepCom and how it may be seen at the 2023 IAEA General Conference.
VCDNP experts organised, spoke at, and moderated 10 events at the 2023 NPT Preparatory Committee meeting and the Working Group on further strengthening the review process, and served on two national delegations.
The VCDNP and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the International Organisations in Vienna hosted an NPT PrepCom side event focused on feminist foreign policy and nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
The VCDNP organised a webinar exploring the prospects for the 2023 NPT PrepCom meeting and the Working Group on Further Strengthening the Review Process with key officials and experts involved in the NPT review process.
In their food-for-thought paper, Thomas Markram, CNS, and the VCDNP’s Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova review which aspects of the review process are in greater need of improvement and where changes are most feasible.
At the launch of her new book Inheriting the Bomb, Dr. Mariana Budjeryn shared key findings from her decade-long research into Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament and explained their importance for today.
The VCDNP hosted a webinar with Dr. Rebecca Davis Gibbons to present her new book The Hegemon’s Toolkit, which explores the history of US engagement to create, strengthen, and adapt the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
In the October 2022 issue of the Arms Control Today magazine, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova discusses how the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) came close to adopting a final document and why it ultimately failed to do so.
The second brief in the “Governing the Atom Series” by VCDNP focuses on the compatibility of naval nuclear propulsion with key elements of the non-proliferation regime.
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