Seyom Brown, from American Security Project, argues that the U.S. should remove strategies of mass destruction from its National Security Policy as they are anachronistic and ineffective.
Rachel Staley argues that if serious progress is not made at the meeting of the five recognised nuclear states in London on 4 February such meetings will gradually be viewed as redundant and sink into irrelevance, thus shutting down a vital multilateral nuclear dialogue.
Hugh Chalmers argues that the P5 Process should focus on promoting, coordinating, and discussing workable partnerships between pairs or groups of nuclear weapons states, instead of trying to prepare consensus-based lowest-common-denominator products.
Following the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, two leading experts offer their thoughts and analysis to the European Leadership Network.
John Loretz argues that “the Austrian Pledge” completes the transition from learning about the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons to acting upon the evidence and pursuing a ban treaty.
Kjølv Egeland provides an overview of proceedings at the December 2014 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, concluding that a focus on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons has given those advocating for disarmament a new lease of life.