Papers from the 2015 Annual Conference of the UK Project on Nuclear Issues
These papers were presented by emerging experts from the UK Project on Nuclear Issues (UK PONI) at the 2015 UK PONI Annual Conference, held at RUSI in June 2015
Contents
Editors’ Note
Nuclear Powers and Terrorism: Challenges for Indo-Pakistani Strategic StabilityÂ
Tahir Mahmood Azad
A Nuclear Procurement Channel for Iran: Mission Impossible?
Michele Capeleto
How to Deal with North Korea’s Nuclear Programme: Lessons Learned from the Iran Nuclear Negotiations
Jinho Chung
Managed Instability: The NATO–Russia Strategic Relationship
Thomas Frear
The Strategy and Challenges for UK Civil Nuclear Plant Life Extension
Andrew Gilmour
The Decision to Drop the Bomb: Remembering the Physicists
Emerson Moreno
Reactor in a Box: Unpacking the Potential of Small Nuclear Reactors
Lizzie Murray
Black Rain at Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Hidden Complexities of Nuclear-Weapons Effects
Joseph Schofield
The Future of the UK’s Nuclear-Weapons Programme: Domestic and International Considerations
Rachel Staley
What Use is a Treaty that’s Not in Force? The UK and the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty
David Sully