Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

PSNA Working Paper 10 “The Overview of the Adaptive Cooperative Threat Reduction Proposal for the Denuclearization of the DPRK – Non-Governmental Perspectives –” published.

For details, please see the following webpage.

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PSNA Working Paper 9 “Paved with Good Intentions : Trump’s Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea” published.

For details, please see the following webpage.

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Vol.2, Issue 2 of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (J-PAND) has just been out. The issue, to which 11 articles are assigned, features “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Beyond Entry into Force.”

For the issue, see here.

RECNA’s visiting professor Masao Tomonaga contributed the following paper to the issue.

Tomonaga, Masao. 2019. “The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Summary of the Human Consequences, 1945-2018, and Lessons for Homo sapiens to End the Nuclear Weapon Age.” Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 2(2): 491-517. (see here)

Also, RECNA director Fumihiko Yoshida and vice director Tatsujiro Suzuki published an article about their interviews with nuclear experts conducted on the sideline of the 2019 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference.

Yoshida, Fumihiko & Tatsujiro Suzuki. 2019. “The State of Nuclear Weapons in 2019: Conversations with Experts at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference.” Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 2(2): 612-626. (see here)
 

Posters and guides of “The World’s Fissile Material Inventory” 2019.12 were released. Please click on the thumbnail images below and download the pdf posters and guides.
 

Posters of “The World’s Fissile Material Inventory” 2019.12

	Japanese	English	Korean
Dec. 2019

>> Previous editions can be downloaded from here.
>> Posters of “The World’s Nuclear Warheads Count” 2019.6 were released here.

A Guide to “The World’s Fissile Material Inventory” 2019.12

Guide to the World’s Fissile Material Inventry Dec. 2019 (PDF) [for browsing on the Web] [for making leaflets]

>> Previous editions can be downloaded from here.
>> A Guide to “The World’s Nuclear Warheads Count” 2019.6 was released here.