Department of Politics and International Relations
Resources
This page collates diplomatic statements, conference reports and other articles on the theme of irreversibility in nuclear disarmament.
Diplomatic statements
Statement by UK, Norway and Mexico (2023). The principle of irreversibility in nuclear disarmament. 2023 NPT Preparatory Committee.
Working Paper submitted by the UK and Norway (2021). Irreversibility in the context of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: recommendations for the tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty. 2020 NPT Review Conference NPT/CONF.2020/WP.16.
Conference reports
Wilton Park (2024). Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament 2024
Wilton Park (2023). Moving forward on Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament.
Wilton Park (2022). Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament.
Articles and reports
Woolf, A. F. (2024). Irreversibility in Nuclear Arms Control: Lessons from the US-Soviet/Russian Arms Control Process. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–14.
Pilat, J. F. (2024). Toward Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament: The Role of Transparency Measures. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–6.
Kassenova, T. (2024). Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–11.
Walker, J. (2024). Lessons from the Chemical Weapons Convention Negotiations and Implementation for the Diplomatic Challenges of Negotiating ‘Irreversibility.’ Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–7.
Heather Williams, Jessica Link, Joseph Rodgers (2023). Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.
Dieter Fleck (2023). Irreversibility in nuclear arms control and disarmament law? Journal of Conflict & Security Law. 28(3), 423–466.
William Walker (2020). On Nuclear Embeddedness and (Ir)reversibility: A Working Paper. Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University.
IPNDV (2018). Food-for-Thought Paper: Achieving Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament.
Toby Dalton, Wyatt Hoffman, Ariel Levite, Li Bin, George Perkovich, and Tong Zhao (2017). Toward a Nuclear Firewall: Bridging the NPT’s Three Pillars. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
Ben Sims and Christopher Henke (2012). Repairing Credibility: Repositioning Nuclear Weapons Knowledge After the Cold War. Social Studies of Science, 42(3), 324-347.
John Walker (2012). Potential Proliferation Pointers from the Past: Lessons from the British Nuclear Weapons Program, 1952–69. The Nonproliferation Review, 19(1), 109–123.
David Cliff, Andreas Persbo and Hassan Elbahtimy (2011). Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament: Practical Steps Against Nuclear Rearmament. VERTIC, London.
Legal Opinion prepared for Greenpeace UK by Philippe Sands QC and Helen Law. (2006). The United Kingdom's Nuclear Deterrent: Current and Future Issues of Legality. Matrix Chambers.
Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi (1995). Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons. American Journal of Sociology, 101(1) 44–99.