ISSUE AREAS:

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

2004 NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting
New York, 26 April - 7 May 2004

Latest Additions

BASIC Deputy Director Matt Martin and Consultant Carol Naughton attended the 2004 PrepCom. They are available for comment and interview via Nigel Chamberlain in the London office on: +44-20 7324 4684.

• Business as Usual and No Progress Made, BASIC Report of the first week of the PrepCom
• BASIC Publications & Analysis
• Previews & Analysis from other sources
• Official Documents and Statements
• Previous Review Conferences and PrepComs
• NPT Resources and Links

BASIC Publications & Analysis

• Business as Usual and No Progress Made, BASIC Report of the first week of the PrepCom
• Nuclear proliferation under the 'special relationship', BASIC Press Release, 23 April 2004
• Time to put Article I under the Spotlight, BASIC NPT Briefing, April 2004
• 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement, full text of the US-UK nuclear cooperation agreement
• Progress at the IAEA, by Dave Andrews, April 2004

Previews & Analysis from other sources

• 'Nuclear sharing under the "special relationship" umbrella', Nigel Chamberlain on US-UK nuclear cooperation and the NPT, Global Beat Syndicate, 19 April 2004
• 'US-UK Nuclear Weapons Cooperation Up for Renewal', Nicola Butler on US-UK nuclear cooperation and NPT Article I, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 76, March/April 2004
• 'Why is Britain's Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure Being Upgraded?', Di McDonald, Siân Jones and Rebecca Johnson on developments at the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment and the NPT, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 76, March/April 2004
• 'The NPT in 2004: Testing the Limits', Rebecca Johnson on issues for the 2004 PrepCom, Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 76, March/April 2004
• 'This relationship isn't working', Dan Plesch on US-UK nuclear cooperation and double standards on nuclear proliferation, The Guardian, 6 April 2004

Official Documents & Statements

Reaching Critical Will is collecting and publishing official documents and statements from the NPT PrepCom. These will be updated throughout the PrepCom.

BASIC Coverage of Previous Review Conferences and PrepComs

• Background Information
• Brief History of the NPT
• The 2003 NPT PrepCom
• The 2002 NPT PrepCom
• The 2000 NPT Review Conference
• The 1999 NPT PrepCom
• The 1998 NPT PrepCom
• The 1997 NPT PrepCom
• The 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference

NPT Resources & Links

• Text of the Treaty
• Current Signatories and States Parties (link to the UN website)
• UN NPT Page
• New Agenda Coalition
  
• Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
• Reaching Critical Will
• Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute

Back to Nuclear and WMD