Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) calls for tenders for senior research consultancy services for the production of the 2022 edition of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor. The scope of the services sought are 5-10 consultancies for up to 400 hours each in the period November 2022-March 2023, depending on the combination of the qualifications and availability of the chosen bidders ..read more

The nine nuclear-armed states had a combined arsenal of 12,705 nuclear warheads at the beginning of 2022 ..read more

Stuart Casey-Maslen has written an insightful blog for the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor about the statement by Dimitri Medvedev on 27 September 2022 that Russia had the right to defend itself with nuclear weapons if pushed beyond its limits, including to defend annexed territory in Ukraine, and that this was “certainly not a bluff”. Medvedev's statement raises interesting—as well as disturbing—questions under international law ..read more

A new study by Brian Toon, Alan Robock and others, published early October 2019 in Science Advances, provides sobering insight into the consequences of a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan ..read more

The First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW will be obligated to set the deadlines for the destruction of a state party’s nuclear weapons and for the removal of a foreign state’s nuclear weapons (hosting arrangements ..read more

Several states that mine and export uranium have adhered to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), including Kazakhstan, Namibia, and South Africa ..read more

Recommendations for the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW ..read more

Eyes on Europe as treaty banning nuclear weapons enters into force ..read more

On 22 January 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force as binding, international law for its first 50 states parties. This marked a milestone in the global community’s efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons ..read more

The UK Government announced on 16 March that it will massively increase its nuclear arsenal and thus its military ability to obliterate cities around the world ..read more