Pandemic-Nuclear-Nexus Project
The Pandemic Nuclear Nexus Scenarios Project was an international collaboration aimed at exploring how the far reaching effects of pandemics could alter the landscape for nuclear risk and disarmament. The project was co-sponsored by the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), the Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), and Nautilus Institute, in cooperation with Nagasaki University Planetary Health and the Panel on Peace and Security of Northeast Asia (PSNA). The project's workshops were centered on scenario planning, a non-predictive means of examining a variety of possible futures to identify critical uncertainties and strategic opportunities. These led to the development of four distinct scenarios for the year 2030. These narratives are intended to highlight key questions about dynamics that could shape the “pandemic-nuclear nexus” over the next ten years.
SPECIAL REPORT: Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
Dr David G Legge and Dr Sun Kim set out the global, national and corporate efforts in developing COVID-19 vaccines and the threats to equitable access.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Role of Cities as First Responders to Pandemics
Changwoo Shon discusses the role of urban governments in the future, including intercity network construction by evaluating Seoul's response to COVID-19.
SPECIAL REPORT: Biological Weapons and Nuclear Deterrence in the Pandemic Era
Richard Pilch and Miles Pomper provide an Asia-Pacific perspective on biological weapons and their relevance to nuclear deterrence in the pandemic era.
SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19 and Labor Demand, Migration, and Military Force Structure
This special report by Brian Nichiporuk assesses long-term implications of COVID19 in East Asia by examining impacts on labour markets, mass migration scenarios, and the effect on regional militaries.
SPECIAL REPORT: An Alternative to Nuclear Deadlock and Stalled Diplomacy
Michael Hamel-Green proposes a phased establishment of a regional Northeast Asian NWFZ negotiated in tandem with a regional comprehensive security agreement.
SPECIAL REPORT: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in a Pandemic World
Allan Behm argues that Trump’s mercurial approach highlights the fiction of extended nuclear deterrence and a COVID-19 world demands a reinvestment in diplomacy by all nations.
SPECIAL REPORT: Pandemics
Pandemics have occurred throughout human history and appear to be increasing because of viral diseases from animals, with health, economic, gender, social and political impacts.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nagasaki’s Voice - 75 years’ Experience
Dr Masao Tomonaga argues that a citizen of Nagasaki, as a Hibakusha and as a medical professional, more must be done to rid the world of these weapons.
SPECIAL REPORT: The US Election and Nuclear Order in the Post-Pandemic World
Leon Sigal assesses potential nuclear policy outcomes from the US election and the nuclear order in the post-pandemic world.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Impact of a Regional Nuclear Conflict between India and Pakistan
G.D. Hess assesses the two major studies on climatic impact of a regional war between India and Pakistan and the different assumptions that lead to the two different conclusions.