NPT Review Conference
APLN’s project on the postponed 2020 NPT Review Conference explores the challenges delegations are likely to face when the meeting - currently scheduled for August 2022 - finally takes place. Against a backdrop of deteriorating global security dynamics, the project engages experts from the Asia-Pacific region in debate on how the many obstacles affecting treaty’s implementation should be tackled.
![Cooperation or Conflict? Walking the Tightrope of NPT and Ban Treaty Supporters](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Tightrope-shutterstock_451077028-edit.jpg)
Cooperation or Conflict? Walking the Tightrope of NPT and Ban Treaty Supporters
Angela Kane brings a spotlight on the lack of trust between the nuclear haves and the have-nots, calling for cooperation from both sides.
![Folding the Umbrella: Nuclear Allies, the NPT and the Ban Treaty](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/umbrella_treaty.jpg)
Folding the Umbrella: Nuclear Allies, the NPT and the Ban Treaty
Paul Meyer argues that nuclear dependent allies should play a bigger role in convincing their NWS partners to undertake tangible nuclear disarmament action.
![Non-NPT Nuclear-Armed States and the NPT: Closing the Gap](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/npt_parties.jpg)
Non-NPT Nuclear-Armed States and the NPT: Closing the Gap
APLN member Sadia Tasleem examines the status of the four non-NPT nuclear-armed states -- India, Pakistan, DPRK and Israel -- vis-à-vis the three core objectives of the NPT.
![Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT and the Ban Treaty](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mk-17_Theronuclear_Bomb_National_Museum_of_Nuclear_Science__History.jpg)
Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT and the Ban Treaty
APLN Board member Ramesh Thakur discusses the ineffectiveness of the NPT while also bringing light to its normative potential.
![Fiftieth Anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/50_YEARS-1.jpg)
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Fifty years after the NPT was put into force, the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) continues to exacerbate some tensions.
![NPT 2020 Review Underway: Is the NPT Still Relevant?](https://cms.apln.network/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/iStock-459039261.jpg)
NPT 2020 Review Underway: Is the NPT Still Relevant?
Major innovative strategies will be necessary in order to revive the NPT and to keep it both current and constructive for the new decade.