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Space weapons and missile defence technology

In 2007 Reaching Critical Will investigated technologies and programmes related to missile defence and potential space weaponization. We found that there are dozens of programmes in various stages of development. The following is a compilation of those under development or in planning as of March 2007.

Dirty Dozen: corporate partners in mass destruction (2001 and 2007)

You get what you pay for, WILPF

Biological weapons in First Committee Briefing Book 2018

Chemical weapons in First Committee Briefing Book 2018

Chemical weapons in First Committee Briefing Book 2019

Chemical weapons in First Committee Briefing Book 2020

The humanitarian impact of drones

This study examines various humanitarian impacts of the use of armed drones from a number of different perspectives and regions.

Small arms, big picture: armed violence beyond First Committee

Gender and armed violence: A look at the situation in Cameroon, WILPF Cameroon

This publication is part of a research series on local and national perspectives on preventing gender-based violence through arms control. It is written by WILPF Guy Feugap of WILPF Cameroon.

Model Nuclear Inventory 2005

The Model Nuclear Inventory is a comprehensive database of all nuclear materials, both military and civilian, in the 44 States recognized as having a significant nuclear capability.

Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?

A civil society analysis of the current disarmament regime and response to the WMD Commission Report, released in May 2007 by the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear PolicyWestern States Legal Foundation, and Reaching Critical Will of WILPF.

Beyond arms control: challenges and choices for nuclear disarmament


Beyond arms control is a collaborative work of non-governmental researchers and activists who critically examine the mainstream discourse of nuclear weapons.

Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear power

On 11 September 2011, six months after the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, Reaching Critical Will released an NGO world-wide study on the implications of the catastrophe.

Assuring destruction forever: nuclear weapon modernization around the world

This updated study explores the ongoing and planned nuclear weapon modernization programmes in China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The CTBT: obstacles to entry into force

Today, more than 16 years after the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted, significant obstacles remain on the path to its entry into force.

Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons

This publication examines the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and is aimed for civil society actors, academics, and governments that are interested in approaching weapons negotiations with a humanitarian lens. 

Still Assuring destruction forever

One year after the release of the groundbreaking 2012 report Assuring destruction forever: nuclear weapon modernization around the world, nuclear-armed states have continued to invest in modernization of their nuclear systems.

First Committee briefing book 2013

Published ahead of the 2013 UN General Assembly First Committee, this briefing book highlights a number of current disarmament issues and suggests ways forward.

Preventing collapse: the NPT and a ban on nuclear weapons

This paper examines the complimentarity between the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a ban on nuclear weapons. 

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