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ARTICLES BY Paul Ingram, executive director

NATO's DDPR: What to Expect and What Needs to Be Done After Chicago
Paul Ingram, executive director, Oliver Meier
 May 16, 2012

NOTE: This post follows up on the front page article published in Arms Control Today, May 2, 2012

The NATO Summit: Recasting the Debate Over U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Paul Ingram, executive director, Oliver Meier
 May 03, 2012

In this article from the front cover of Arms Control Today, Paul Ingram and Oliver Meier discuss the newly agreed draft of the DDPR for the Chicago Summit at the end of May.  The authors highlight important points in the debate over U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and strategic relations with Russia, and explain various principles that should be kept in mind while leaders discuss the future of NATO’s nuclear posture at the upcoming Summit.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meeting, elections in Iran and France
Paul Ingram, executive director
 April 30, 2012

The first annual NPT Preparatory Committee in the 2015 round begins today. With a full work plan agreed in May 2010, delegates have a varied agenda, but it seems likely that Iran’s nuclear programme will form a shadow over discussions in Vienna.

Themes arising from the BASIC Workshop in Doha
Paul Ingram, executive director, Anne Penketh, program director
 April 26, 2012

About 50 participants - representatives of Gulf states and experts from the region, and U.S. and European experts and officials, exchanged views on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the Gulf during a conference on March 21st and 22nd. The workshop highlighted a number of themes, including: justice and rights, disarmament, universality and the health of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iran.

Time to reframe the debate on the Iranian nuclear programme
Paul Ingram, executive director
 April 26, 2012

In this Open Democracy article, BASIC’s executive director, Paul Ingram urges us to move away from traditional Cold War thinking and the dichotomy of us versus them.  He explains that in order to properly address the issue of nuclear nonproliferation, we must reframe the debate on the Iranian nuclear weapons programme.