Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

Since 2013, RECNA has been compiling data on nuclear warheads around the world and updating it on an annual basis. Now you can see the “Global List of Nuclear Warheads” and detailed data on “Each Country’s Nuclear Weapons Capability” updated on June 1, 2021 from here. (Past version: 2013-2017 in Japanese only; 2018-2020)

See also: World’s Nuclear Warhead Data
 

“A Guide to the World’s Nuclear Warheads Count June 2021” was released. Please click on the thumbnail images below and download the pdf guide and poster.
 

Guide to World’s Nuclear Warheads Count

English Guide to the Worldʼs Nuclear Warheads Count June 2021 (PDF) [for browsing on the Web] [for making leaflets]

>> Previous editions can be downloaded from here.
 

Vol. 4, Issue 1 of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (J-PAND) is now available online. There are 13 open access articles.

For the issue, see here. For the first time in the journal’s history, we have invited Dr. John Borrie (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) as a guest editor to publish a special feature on “Implementing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”
 

Video of the International Joint Seminar “Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses” (Jul. 2, 2021) is now available!

This workshop was originally proposed by Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) to assess possible responses of Republic of Korea and Japan to nuclear threats from Democratic People’s of Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was postponed to this year.
Now the workshop is jointly organized by APLN, Sejong Institute of ROK, and Pugwash Japan. It is intended to exchange frank opinions on this issue among experts, NGOs and parliamentarians from both countries.

This is the second series of three workshops and the first one was held in Seoul on May 14, 2021. And the third one is now planned to be held in Seoul in November 2021.
Pugwash Japan is hosting this second workshop (on-line).

Click here to view the video of the symposium.

International Joint Seminar “Assessing Northeast Asia Nuclear Domino: North Korean Nuclear Threat and Japanese Responses” (Jul. 2, 2021)

　
This workshop was originally proposed by Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) to assess possible responses of Republic of Korea and Japan to nuclear threats from Democratic People’s of Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was postponed to this year.
Now the workshop is jointly organized by APLN, Sejong Institute of ROK, and Pugwash Japan. It is intended to exchange frank opinions on this issue among experts, NGOs and parliamentarians from both countries.

This is the second series of three workshops and the first one was held in Seoul on May 14, 2021. And the third one is now planned to be held in Seoul in November 2021.
Pugwash Japan is hosting this second workshop (on-line).

Please see the here about this program agenda and detailed information.