In this book, a former US Department of State senior arms control official critically analyses two pivotal nuclear arms control treaties: the established Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the rising Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
The book offers a concise and critical analysis of the two, illuminating both their strengths and shortcomings. The author acknowledges the idealistic goal of the TPNW but argues that its immediate abolitionist stance lacks a roadmap for achievement. Instead, the book advocates realistic progress within the NPT framework. It provides twelve key negotiation topics for fostering meaningful dialogue among nuclear-weapon states, while emphasizing the urgency of concrete action in a world facing growing nuclear threats.
Table of Content
Introduction: A Tale of Two Treaties
1. Three Pillars or One Foundation?
2. The TPNW Challenge
3. Article VI Interpreted and Applied
4. China and the NPT
5. What’s Left To Negotiate?
Conclusion: An NPT Future and Bringing Realists Back to Arms Control
About the author
Thomas D. Grant is a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.
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