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BASIC is delighted to announce that we are continuing our cooperation with the Ministry of…

Polish threat perceptions and risk assessments are heavily influenced by Poland's proximity to Russia – and the author suggests solutions to contain them.

Lithuania's current nuclear and conventional risk assessments, and possible policy responses.


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The Integrated Review

In just 76 words highlighted below across three statements in the nuclear deterrent section of the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (IR), the UK government reversed its policy of gradual reduction of the variety, number and salience of its nuclear weapons in place through successive governments since the end of the Cold War.

President Obama considered it, and as Vice-President, Biden advocated for it. Will the Biden Administration now commit to a No First Use policy?

The Johnson Government has set a decisive course away from the United Kingdom's three decade-long trend of successive nuclear reductions and increasing transparency.

The Emerging Voices Network presents the policy recommendations from its first policy working cycle.

Publication of the Nuclear Responsibilities Toolkit (2021), a conceptual and practical guide to policy communities who would like to experiment with the Nuclear Responsibilities Approach.

The Gender, Think-Tanks and International Affairs Toolkit has been jointly developed and published by BASIC,…

We seek in this report to suggest ways, and crucially propose a new method, to gradually shift the nature of the contemporary global conversation on nuclear weapons away from one characterised by rights, blame, and suspicion towards one framed by responsibility, empathic cooperation, and even trust.

States have employed risk reduction strategies in order to manage some of the unintended consequences…

On 22nd November 2019, BASIC organised a half-day scoping workshop in New Delhi at the…

This report arises from a roundtable on 'European strategies for strategic risk reduction' on 1…

This report arises from a roundtable on 'Developing European Perspectives on Nuclear Risks' on 7 May 2019, hosted at the Polish Mission to the UN in New York and under the sponsorship of the Dutch Foreign Ministry during the 2019 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee.

BASIC believes in making progress on nuclear disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation through multiple complementary approaches. We continuously develop our programmes – streams of research – through sustained engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, collectively searching for the art of the possible.

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Polish threat perceptions and risk assessments are heavily influenced by Poland's proximity to Russia – and the author suggests solutions to contain them.

Lithuania's current nuclear and conventional risk assessments, and possible policy responses.

On 15th May, BASIC Co-Director Sebastian Brixey-Williams was invited to speak at the OxPeace 2021 Conference 'Peace in the Nuclear Era: threats, treaties and public understanding.' View the recording here.

Recent deadly military incidents and an ongoing border conflict between China and India has led…

States have employed risk reduction strategies in order to manage some of the unintended consequences…

This report arises from a roundtable on 'European strategies for strategic risk reduction' on 1…

This article was co-authored with Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler, Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security…


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