Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the war
and the atomic bombings
International Human Resources Development Project “Assembling Peace through Dialogue”▶[JP]

This session will present the reports of the International Human Resource Development Project, developed in collaboration with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC).
It brings together the outcomes of eight months of dialogue and research involving nine young professionals from abroad and seven young participants from Nagasaki, focusing on three core themes: emerging technologies and nuclear weapons, transmission of the memories and role of Nagasaki, and climate change and nuclear weapons.

Vol.8, Issue 2 of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (J-PAND) is now available online. There are 16 open access articles.

For the issue, see here.
It is a special issue on Deterrence by Denial to Address Biological Threats. Related to this publication, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA) held a side event with the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) at the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Working Group in Geneva in December 2025.
 

Announcement of the 2026 Admission Guidelines and Information Session for the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Global Risk (Doctoral Program) ▶[JPN]

The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Global Risk (Doctoral Program), scheduled to be established in October 2026, has released the 2026 Admission Guidelines and information on upcoming information sessions.

Details are available at the following link:
Website: https://www.planetaryhealth.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/gr-program/

This graduate school is an inter-graduate school program organized in collaboration with the Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Economics, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as its cooperating graduate schools.
If you are interested, please visit the website and learn more.

【Contact】
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Global Risk, Nagasaki University
Contact form ( https://www.planetaryhealth.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/contact/ )

RECNA Newsletter Vol.14 No.1 (September 30, 2025)

Greetings upon Taking Office — Jaroslav Krasny Participation in the TPNW Meeting of States Parties and the NPT Preparatory Committee — Kimiaki Kawai Dialogue Project — Fumihiko Yoshida Collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) — Fumihiko Yoshida Update on the 2025 Edition of World’s Nuclear Warhead Data — Keiko Nakamura Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and the atomic bombings: International Human Resource Development Project — Kazuko Hikawa The Thirteenth Nagasaki Youth Delegation Activity Report — Kazuko Hikawa [Full text]　* Citation URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10069/0002000821

Vol.8, Issue 1 of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (J-PAND) is now available online.

For the issue, see here.
The issue features “The Future of Nuclear Stability in East Asia” with an introductory article by Jon B. Wolfsthal & Toby Dalton.