Arms Control
The 2026 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ...
Marianne Hanson warns that without genuine reforms and restored reciprocity, the 2026 NPT RevCon risks deepening global divisions and collapsing the nonproliferation regime.
Chinese Perspectives on Arms Control and Strategic Stability in Emerging Technologies
Tianjiao Jiang highlights how China’s 2025 White Paper signals a proactive shift toward governing the cross-domain entanglement of AI, space, and cyber technologies, and urges US-China cooperation to ...
Addressing the Challenges of Nuclear Submarine Proliferation to the IAEA’s Comprehensive ...
Tariq Rauf highlights the "safeguards loophole" regarding naval nuclear propulsion programmes of non-nuclear states and suggests a revised set of protocols.
Escalation Dynamics Under the Nuclear Shadow—India’s Approach
Rakesh Sood examines how India and Pakistan have perceived and responded to each other’s nuclear signalling across multiple crises.
2026 Signals Critical Moment to Preserve Nuclear Order
Shatabhisha Shetty warns that ahead of the 2026 NPT Review Conference, Asia-Pacific states must rebuild confidence in disarmament, reaffirm the role of nuclear-weapon-free zones, and collectively ...
Trump’s Talk of Nuclear Testing Is Terrifying
Mitsuru Kitano argues that President Trump's impulsive and unchecked approach to nuclear testing has significantly increased global nuclear risk.
APLN Group Statement: A Return to Nuclear Testing Threatens Global Stability
Over 80 members of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network warn that a return to nuclear testing threatens global stability and call upon all nuclear armed states to reaffirm their nuclear testing ...
Nuclear Arms Control in Crisis: Time for Asia–Pacific to Step Up
APLN Senior Associate Fellows John Carlson and John Tilemann co-wrote a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute.
Asia-Pacific Region Key to Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence
Tanvi Kulkarni argues that the world must rethink nuclear deterrence by focusing on the Asia-Pacific’s complex security dynamics, broadening the understanding of nuclear weapons’ consequences, and ...
Reflections on the 2025 NPT PrepCom
We invited four experts to examine the implications of this outcome: what drove the deadlock, whether the treaty is now at greater risk, and what urgent actions could restore momentum ahead of the ...