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Prioritizing Weapons and Ammunition Management Ahead of the 2026 Somalia Transition Tabitha Agaba Guest Contributor *The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the guest...
‘A House of Dynamite’ is a great film, which gets nuclear security dangerously wrong. Why does that matter? Ashoka Bandi Phillips Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, ‘A...
Can AI Speak Diplomacy? Exploring AI’s Grasp of Geopolitics and Limits in Sensitive Translation Monalisa Hazarika Strategic Communications & Partnership Officer, SCRAP Weapons Across fields, a...
Beyond Deterrence: What Hiroshima Teaches Us About Responsibility and Remembrance Monalisa Hazarika Strategic Communications & Partnership Officer, SCRAP Weapons Organized by the Hiroshima...
SCRAP Weapons and Atomic Annie Monalisa Hazarika Strategic Communications & Partnership Officer, SCRAP Weapons Ever wondered about the story behind SCRAP Weapons’ striking background image—a...
The Eurobomb in light of the 2025 NATO Summit Annabel Ludhra Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Germany has decided to engage with France and the UK on the sharing of nuclear...
Actioning President Trump’s goal of weapons reductions Dr. Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons Manuel Galileo Military analyst, SCRAP Weapons Academics offer a policy package to...
Dr. Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published by India’s World A Euro-bomb or a German nuclear bomb. Or a German-French bomb, or a German-French- British bomb...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Golden Dome Mila King Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Trump’s golden dome offers the promise to protect the US from any Hiroshima and Nagasaki on its soil...
Interreligious Dialogue on Activating a Special Session on Disarmament Monalisa Hazarika Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Continuing the conversation around the campaign for a fourth Special Session...
Harmony in Disarmament: Upholding the Human Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons On 26th March 2024, SCRAP Weapons with Parliament of the World’s Religions...
The Ticking Clock: Urgent Steps for Peace in the Shadow of Korean Tensions Ben Goldman Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons The escalation of tensions between North and South Korea poses a...
Degrowth and Disarmament: Ecological Peacebuilding for the 21st Century Jack Ainsworth Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Historically, the links between global environmentalist movements and campaigns...
Nurturing Peace: Understanding North Korea’s Nuclear Challenge Ben Goldman Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons To comprehend North Korea’s persistent drive towards nuclear capability, we must...
Beyond Bullets: A Proactive Approach to Displacement through Disarmament Dénia Dimsdale Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons “They fear love because it creates a world they can’t...
First Committee at the United Nations, New York Vanessa Canola Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Breaking the impasse in the disarmament apparatus (through SSOD-IV) is needed now more than ever. From...
Taiwan Strait Military Balance James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Hugo Bainbridge graphic designer, SCRAP Weapons According to the World Military Expenditure report, China’s military...
Newsletter August 2023 Revisiting Disarmament and Arms Control: Progress or Regression? – A Geneva Security Debate What are the challenges and opportunities to the disarmament and arms control...
The Disarmament Agenda Is Seriously Stalled. The General Assembly Can Revive It. Eloisa Romain Project Coordinator, SCRAP Weapons Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally...
Newsletter July 2023 NEW AGENDA FOR PEACE CALLS FOR THE CONVENING OF A SPECIAL SESSION ON DISARMAMENT On July 18th, UN Secretary General, António Guterres, released the long awaited New...
United Nations wants to resurrect a global disarmament mechanism last used in the 1980s Zahraa Kapasi Consultant, SCRAP Weapons Eloisa Romain Project Coordinator, SCRAP Weapons This article was...
Newsletter June 2023 It has been a busy summer in the world of disarmament, and for SCRAP Weapons, as we continue campaigning for the activation of a Fourth Special Session...
Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit Vanessa Canola Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons SCRAP Weapons Project Assistants Vanessa Canola and James Luk attended the G7 Youth...
Newsletter April 2023 April was a busy month here at SCRAP Weapons! Having carried out a round of successful consultations and discussions in Brussels, Geneva, London, New York, Vienna, Washington DC...
The Disarming of Iraq: What went wrong and what went right Henrietta Wilson Senior Analyst, SCRAP Weapons On the night of Sept. 25, 1991, Chief Inspector David Kay and his...
Newsletter March 2023 With a successful hybrid conference, the launch of our podcast series, and publishing multiple opinion pieces on topics ranging from the military balance in the Taiwan Strait...
TICK TOCK on the Doomsday Clock Monalisa Hazarika Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons Former Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s ever-so-relevant words “The world is over-armed and peace is...
Taiwan Strait Military Balance Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons James Luk Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Hugo Bainbridge graphic designer, SCRAP Weapons The recent U.S.-China balloon incident...
Russia pulls out of New START nuclear treaty- we’ve already seen how such agreements have limited aggression against Ukraine Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally...
Pathway to Vishwa Guru: India and the G20 Monalisa Hazarika Project assistant, SCRAP Weapons The G20 grouping is one of the most influential intergovernmental forums where world leaders chalk out...
Zero Missiles: building on the precedent that helps Ukraine today Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on europeanleadershipnetwork.org on 21st October...
The New Cold and the Future of Disarmament Rhys Bowden Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons The final webinar in SCRAP’s The New Cold War series witnessed a timely discussion about the...
The China-US Media War and its Impact on the Global Disarmament Campaign Jack Cinamon Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons In recent years, public opinion of China and the US’ foreign policies...
Securing Outer Space: Emerging Threats in the New Space Race Gemma Sabatini Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Since the Cold War and its aftermath, countries have been engaging in a race...
The Big Bang: The Evolution of US-China Nuclear Relations Jessica Henn Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons Historical Overview of Sino-American Tensions The US and China have a long and deeply...
China, North Korea & Nuclear Weapons Ben Goldman Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons This essay was originally submitted to the Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021. Nuclear weapons, uncontrolled...
Communicating Peace Philip Chennery Project Assistant, SCRAP Weapons This essay was originally submitted to the Korea Times-APLN Essay Contest 2021, being awarded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Three Decades On, Here’s What We’ve Learned About the Effectiveness of UN Weapons Inspections in Iraq Henrietta Wilson Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published on...
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Verification: What We’ve Got, What’s Needed, and Can Open Source Research Help? Henrietta Wilson Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons Dr Olamide Samuel This article...
Arms Control 2.0? With open source tools, desktop sleuths can go where governments won’t Henrietta Wilson Dr Olamide Samuel Dr Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons This article was originally published...
Eloisa Romani Project Assistant, Scrap Weapons Report on Dan Plesch’s contribution to Session 4 of City University of London’s webinar series ‘General and Complete Disarmament: Contemporary...
A Realistic, Progressive Foreign Policy for the United States Dr Dan Plesch Director, CISD SOAS University This article was originally published on thebaraza.org on 17th November 2020. Introduction A...
Could the US Win WWIII Without Using Nuclear Weapons? Dr Dan Plesch Director, CISD SOAS University This article was originally published on theconversation.com on 19th April 2018. As the US...
A Renaissance in Disarmament: Time for the Third Great Charter of Paris? Dr Dan Plesch Director, CISD SOAS University This article was originally published on europeanleadershipnetwork.org on 29th...
For decades, women have fought the hierarchy that characterizes patriarchy, which is maintained by obedient norms and structures. While obedience has been challenged in more or less overt ways...
For the first time, an international legal instrument on nuclear weapons recognizes the disproportionate impact on both women and indigenous people...
Courage is needed to seek and introduce women’s perspectives in disarmament since such revision will alter how arms control is perceived and developed...
Critically, the modernization of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)- counter opposing forces designed to destroy incoming missiles- poses a further destabilising threat to strategic stability...
Whilst key individuals and groups of women have had tremendous impact around the world there is still a disproportionate lack of female representation within society...
The Ban Treaty now outlaws nuclear weapons. What now for nuclear armed states and other non-signatories?...
Even though the world's big nuclear weapons states today did not adopt it, the TPNW is going to change the conversation on nuclear weapons, how we learn about nuclear weapons, how we talk about them...
2020 marks the 25th anniversary from the Beijing Declaration, which promoted the most visionary agenda in terms of gender equality in many areas, including security. Yet, big gaps remain to be filled...
Women and Conflict India Achilles Research Team, SCRAP Weapons How Peacebuiding Efforts Can Benefit Us All Sexual violence is continually used as a tool to harm and humiliate women; it’s...
Disarmament that Saves Lives Dan Plesch Director, SCRAP Weapons, CISD SOAS Opportunities and Challenges drawn from the Panel Discussion, “Building on the Secretary General’s Disarmament...
In considering denuclearizing the DPRK and efforts to address the Iranian situation and the JCPOA, steps can be taken to strengthen security in the regions where the states are located: Northeast...
Even when broken down into statistics, the humanitarian toll is sobering. With 10,000 civilians dead, 22 million in need of aid, 8 million subjected to famine, and 1 million infected with cholera, the...
Comparisons are often made between the regulation of cyber and nuclear weapons. This analogy, however, is severely limited – particularly in relation to disarmament – and fails to reflect the unique...
Former SCRAP Project Manager David Franco shares his experience with the project. Franco is a alumnus of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London and, former...
It's been 73 years this week since the United States detonated atomic bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the final stages of World War II. The bombings happened on the...
A network of global institutions were created in 1945 to try and avert another global conflict. They have been gradually undermined over the last 20 years, and now we see them being trashed wholesale...
Fear of war looms in the background of the latest round of presidential meetings. At a time when Stanley Kubrick’s General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove seems an apt description for the behaviour...
Reconciling National Security with General and Complete Disarmament SCRAP was recently mentioned in a new paper by Marc Finaud, an expert from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)...
40 Acts to Save the World: Secretary-General’s Agenda for Disarmament We’ve summarised the Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament report released last month by UN Secretary-General...
UN Secretary General Disarmament Report: A Comprehensive Agenda for Disarmament On 24th May, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres released his new agenda for general and complete...
The world is currently inching towards a precipice. North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have put Asian security in a precarious position and it risks dragging in other world powers that also have a stake...
It comes with little surprise that the nuclear disarmament agenda is heavily supported by multilateral institutions and member states that are non-nuclear. Getting nuclear-armed states on board with...
Twenty years ago, the US Air Force began to develop the next generation of fighter aircraft aimed at securing total air superiority. The F-22 Raptor was intended to triumph over the relics of Soviet...
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