Publications

This paper focuses on nuclear issues within NATO's strategic context from a French Perspective. It examines what NATO's role in nuclear disarmament should be, whilst maintaining NATO's nuclear deterre...chevron_right

BASIC and ICDS convened a roundtable on 15th March in Tallinn, Estonia to discuss the dimensions involved in NATO's deterrence and defence posture review. The current reality is that the risk of nucle...chevron_right

In this background paper, the author summarizes the most relevant developments concerning North Korea's nuclear program and the broader security situation as of December 2010.chevron_right

NATO can and should reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons. First, President Obama with his April 2009 Prague speech has changed the way in which nuclear deterrence is discussed in many NATO member st...chevron_right

The announcement by UK Chancellor George Osborne that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will have to fund the capital costs of replacing the Trident system from its own core budget has forced MoD to face ...chevron_right

The Iranian government has attempted to frame the debate over its nuclear program in the context of an ‘inalienable right to technology’, flowing from Article IV of the NPT. security and to the non-pr...chevron_right

This is a background paper on the US Senate ratification hearings for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the US and Russia on reductions to their deployed long-range nuclear weapo...chevron_right

In his Prague speech in April 2009 President Obama raised the profile of nuclear security issues. At the following G8 L’Aquila summit, he declared his intention to host a major Summit on nuclear secur...chevron_right

The moment the Allies have been waiting for is here. A comprehensive discussion around the future posture of the Alliance had been held back as governments awaited the verdict of the Obama Administrat...chevron_right

The Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) have come under increasing pressure the past few years to do more than tread water and merely keep the NPT afloat. The forthcoming NPT Review Conference (RevCon) in May...chevron_right

The belief that the presence of nuclear weapons creates stability through restraint is deeply embedded in strategic psyches within states with nuclear weapons - it is a mental trap others would do wel...chevron_right

The NPT alone is not the only block to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but it is considered to be the cornerstone of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Today, the Treaty has 184 NNWS – all the...chevron_right

The debate over the coming months within NATO over nuclear posture could get quite heated. Although there is some agreement on general principles, in particular the over-riding need to maintain strong...chevron_right

This paper looks at the background and history of the quest for a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East and makes recommendations for progress. The difficulty on this point lies not in garnerin...chevron_right

On 17th September 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the Pentagon would be canceling the plan to deploy assets of its global missile defense system in Europe to counter the growing long-...chevron_right