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The Non-Proliferation Treaty in Middle Age

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About this series

In 2017 Atomic Reporters kicked off a citizen journalism training project for members of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Youth Group, to encourage them to use a range of media and amplify their voices in support of the treaty. Since then members of the project – with support from Atomic Reporters and the CTBTO – have had material published in media including Teen Vogue, extensively on social media, in two editions of a magazine they produced, and in other outlets. They have also made a range of video products broadcast by, among others, UN TV. Atomic Reporters will continue encouraging citizen nuclear journalism by publishing in these pages the expression of younger commentators about nuclear weapons issues.

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About the author

Alex Wellerstein is a historian of science and nuclear weapons and a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also the creator of the NUKEMAP. For more, follow @wellerstein.

About this article

Atomic Reporters was established to broker information for journalists about all things nuclear – from fingerprinting dwindling fresh water resources with isotopes – to the unholy marriage of new technologies to nuclear weapons.

As well as supporting working journalists by bringing them together with specialists, in workshops or by introduction, Atomic Reporters is also fostering citizen journalism to broaden the conversation about nuclear.

We have recently published a range of responses from young people about their nuclear anxieties in the age of Covid-19, part of an Atomic Reporters project for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s youth group.

Finding ways to channel such views that chip away at the impenetrability of the nuclear edifice and make it more familiar and accessible is in the DNA of Atomic Reporters – to support reporting that informs discussion, and policy.

The peril and price to the public associated with nuclear weapons is subject to little accountability while the technology driving them and the peaceful applications of nuclear are not well understood.

These articles are written by young women contributors Atomic Reporters is proud to be associated with add to the effort to bring familiarity to the subject of nuclear.

AR & Youth

This article is part of an effort by Atomic Reporters to help young women and men bring citizen journalism skills to the nuclear file, and add well sourced information to a broader conversation with their peers. As nuclear arms control unravels, the 24 year freeze on nuclear testing is being challenged, the issue is as distant as another galaxy for many young people who will inherit it. Atomic Reporters was founded to help journalists open the nuclear file and make a subject shrouded in secrecy and unaccountable more accessible.

About this series

Atomic Reporters supported this two part series by Sylvia Mishra and Hamzah Rifaat about the impact of social media in last year’s standoff between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan by John Dale Grover. The article has been published in The National Interest, a US national security publication.

Mishra and Rifaat were selected by an independent jury for a reporting fellowship as part of the ‘This is not a drill’ project that introduced international journalists to a range of issues from civil defense preparedness to heightened nuclear weapons dangers that have emerged in the revolution in digital technologies.

The project was organized by Atomic Reporters with the Stanley Center for Peace and Security and support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York with a workshop on the first anniversary of a false missile alert in Hawaii at the height of tensions between North Korea and the US. The project took its name ‘this is not a drill’ from the warning telegraphed to the citizens of the state of Hawaii on January 13, 2018.

About the author

Sylvia Mishra is a Washington D.C. based researcher working on nuclear policy, Asian security and disruptive technologies. She is the Co-Chair of the Women of Colour Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) Working Group and a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) mid-cadre fellow. Follow her on Twitter @MishraSylvia

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