Fact Sheet BUREAU OF ARMS CONTROL, VERIFICATION, AND COMPLIANCE March 20, 2015 “The United States proposes to work with both nuclear weapon states and non-nuclear weapons states to better understand the technical problems of verifying nuclear disarmament, and to develop solutions. This new initiative will…create a non-traditional partnership that draws on the expertise of talented […]

The International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification

03.03.2015 — check against delivery– Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, We are living in tense times. The Ukraine conflict, Syria, Iraq, the advance of the ISIS terrorist group in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa – we face a large number of international crises, a situation we have not had to deal with before in […]

Taking Disarmament Forward

The Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will hold its third session from 28 April to 09 May 2014 at the United Nations Office in New York. This meeting is the third of three sessions that will be held prior […]

Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

As a follow-up of a historic international conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons (Oslo, March 2013), the government of Mexico hosted a 2nd international conference from 13-14 February 2014 in Nuevo Vallarta, a residential resort community in the state of Nayarit, to build momentum for an ambitious diplomatic process that puts the catastrophic […]

NAYARIT CONFERENCE ON THE ‘HUMANITARIAN IMPACT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS’