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Recent articles from The Ploughshares Monitor

The Ploughshares Monitor: Summer 2022

June 6, 2022

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The Ploughshares Monitor: Spring 2022

March 15, 2022

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Death by a Thousand Red Lines: The Colossal Failure of the 10th NPT Review Conference

September 1, 2022

The profound rifts that divided NPT states parties from the beginning and prevented even modest progress ran much deeper than the predictably contentious Ukrainian conflict. Well before the Russian delegation took the floor during the last session to indicate that it would not endorse the text of the final document, it was abundantly clear that the conference would not meet even modest expectations. Its main accomplishment: the further weakening of the NPT’s credibility as a framework for nuclear abolition.

The Ploughshares Monitor: Summer 2022

June 6, 2022

Volume 43 Issue 2 A quarterly publication of Project Ploughshares Please click on attachment to view document:

Developing norms for enhanced security in outer space: Process and priorities

May 12, 2022

This document reflects research and analysis conducted by Project Ploughshares Senior Researcher Dr. Jessica West and Gilles Doucet of Spectrum Space Security on how the existing normative framework in outer space can serve as a basis for informing the development of additional norms of behaviour for security-related activities.

Regulating new tools of warfare: Insights from humanitarian disarmament and arms control efforts

March 24, 2022

As the tools and methods of warfare continue to evolve, it is critical that arms control, disarmament, and normative regimes also advance. Warfighting applications of today’s emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), outer space, and cyber capabilities are becoming more apparent andhold enormous potential for expansion if left unregulated. Such capabilities clearly have the potential to be used in harming civilians, violating international humanitarian law, and creating unpredictable and even unintended escalation of conflict. In this context, compliance with existing arms control measures and humanitarian principles is essential. Yet new arms control frameworks are also needed to mitigate these risks and maintain global commitments to disarmament.