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The Nonproliferation Review Beyond Nuclear Deterrence - Special Issue 1. Volume 31, Issue 4-6 of The Nonproliferation Review

We recently published 2 special issues featuring work from the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group @managingtheatom.bsky.social. You can read both collections, with many #OpenAccess articles.

Special Issue 1: tandfonline.com/toc/rnpr20/3...

Special Issue 2: tandfonline.com/toc/rnpr20/3...

Why do so many countries not participate in Biological Weapons Convention CBMs? Sharma & Hobson analyze CBM submissions & 51 working papers/statements. They identify capacity gaps & system design as obstacles & propose reforms.

New #OpenAccess in the NPR: doi.org/10.1080/1073...

Counterforce wars: the proponents strike back Published in The Nonproliferation Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

In our forthcoming issue, @nuclear-jim.bsky.social reviews the collection "Counterforce in Contemporary U.S. Nuclear Strategy."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Counterforce wars: the proponents strike back Published in The Nonproliferation Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

In our forthcoming issue, @nuclear-jim.bsky.social reviews the collection "Counterforce in Contemporary U.S. Nuclear Strategy."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nuclear Belarus: explaining Russian security guarantees In 2022, Russia announced its plans to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus, which would mark the first such deployment in an allied state since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Deploying nuclear weapons ...

In our newest issue of the NPR, @alexsorg.bsky.social of @managingtheatom.bsky.social has written an article looking into Russian security guarantees to Belarus.

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1073...

The fall of Qaddafi and its contribution to shaping Russia’s strategic outlook and policy on nuclear nonproliferation Vladimir Putin and other influential Russian figures portrayed Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi’s relinquishment of his nuclear program as a strategic error: they often declared that the decision f...

Russia’s takeaway from Libya was stark: Qaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons program and still fell. In our newest issue, Norman Cigar traces how that lesson shaped Putin’s strategic culture and Russia’s approach to nuclear nonproliferation.

doi.org/10.1080/1073...

The Nonproliferation Review Publishes research on nonproliferation studies, including issues of state-run weapons programs and economic and environmental effects of weapon proliferation.&n

We are excited to join the BlueSky community and will soon be posting updates about our articles on WMD!

As always, we are looking forward to your submissions. Check us out online: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rnp...