The Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London is holding a nuclear history conference online in July 2020. Academics, veterans of Britain’s nuclear programmes and other researchers from around the world will come together for informal discussions of nuclear history.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. The non-proliferation regime is therefore 50 years old. King’s College will mark this anniversary with talks from Yoko Iwama, Jonathan Hunt and Hassan Elbahtimy.
Yoko is a professor at the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, and Jonathan is a lecturer at Southampton University. Their joint presentation will address the different perspectives on the NPT of key participants in the original negotiations, especially the neutrals and non-aligned countries.
Hassan is a lecturer in the War Studies Department, Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College and he will talk about the recent history of the NPT, also offering a neutral and non-aligned perspective.
Photo caption: Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin signs the NPT in Washington, 1968 (photo courtesy of LBJ Library/public domain).