A Special Report by Tariq Rauf Tariq Rauf, Alternate Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) NPT Delegation 2002-2010, explains in this personal, three-part account how the third and final session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) unfolded in May,… Read More Dreaming of butterflies and unicorns as the nuclear arms control architecture collapses (Pt3)

From the very first NPT review conference held in 1975, and every five years thereafter, the main area of division and discord is nuclear disarmament as required under Article VI of the Treaty…… Read More Dreaming of butterflies and unicorns as the nuclear arms control architecture collapses (Pt2)

A Special Report by Tariq Rauf Tariq Rauf, Alternate Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) NPT Delegation 2002-2010, explains in this personal, three-part account how the third and final session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) unfolded in May,… Read More Dreaming of butterflies and unicorns as the nuclear arms control architecture collapses (Pt1)