On April 14, 2022 Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) announced the latest publication of the Hiroshima Report. The Hiroshima Report 2022 studies, analyzes and evaluates 36 countries’ performance on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and nuclear security in 2021.

The Hiroshima Report 2022 lays out challenges for nuclear-weapon-states to work on nuclear disarmament, and introduces efforts made by non-nuclear-weapon states.

HOPe and Hiroshima Prefecture hope to make the Hiroshima Report more widely known in the world in order to bolster the worldwide momentum for the abolition of nuclear weapons and motivate each country to take new measures for nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and nuclear security.

As the locality that recovered from the destruction caused by the first dropping of an atomic bomb, we will continue its various initiatives toward a world free from nuclear weapons.

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Special Message Toward a World without Nuclear Weapons

Executive Summary: Nuclear Trends in 2021

Introduction (1) Items

(2) Countries Surveyed in This Project

(3) Approach

 

Chapter 1 Nuclear Disarmament

(1) Status of Nuclear Forces (estimates)

(2) Commitment to Achieving a World without Nuclear Weapons

(3) Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

(4) Reduction of Nuclear Weapons

(5) Diminishing the Roles and Significance of Nuclear Weapons in National Security Strategies and Policies

(6) De-alerting or Measures for Maximizing Decision Time to Authorize the Use of Nuclear Weapons

(7) CTBT

(8) FMCT

(9) Transparency in Nuclear Forces, Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons, and Nuclear Strategy/Doctrine

(10) Nuclear Disarmament Verifications

(11) Irreversibility

(12) Disarmament and Non- Proliferation Education and Cooperation with Civil Society

(13) Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremonies

Column 1 Prospects for U.S.-China Arms Control

Column 2 Concerning the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Column 3 SDGs and the Nuclear Issue

Column 4 HOPe Youth Ambassadors Consider the Connection Between a Sustainable Future and Nuclear Weapons

 

Chapter 2 Nuclear Non-Proliferation

(1) Acceptance and Compliance with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations

(2) IAEA Safeguards Applied t o the NPT NNWS

(3) IAEA Safeguards Applied to NWS and Non Parties to the NPT

(4) Cooperation with the IAEA

(5) Implementing Appropriate Export Controls on Nuclear Related Items and Technologies

(6) Transparency in the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy

Column 5 An Issue Regarding Australia’s Acquisition Nuclear Submarines

 

Chapter 3 Nuclear Security

(1) Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and Facilities

(2) Status of Accession to Nuclear Security and Safety-Related Conventions, Participation in Nuclear Security-Related Initiatives, and Application to Domestic Systems

(3) Efforts to Maintain and Improve the Highest Level of Nuclear Security

Column 6 Cyber Issues and Nuclear Security

 

 

Part II: Evaluation

Non-Party to the NPT

6. India

7. Israel

8. Pakistan

Non-Nuclear-Weapon State

9. Australia

10. Austria

11. Belgium

12. Brazil

13. Canada

14. Chile

15. Egypt

16. Germany

17. Indonesia

18. Iran

19. Japan

20. Kazakhstan

21. South Korea

22. Mexico

23. The Netherlands

24. New Zealand

25. Nigeria

26. Norway

27. The Philippines

28. Poland

29. Saudi Arabia

30. South Africa

31. Sweden

32. Switzerland

33. Syria

34. Turkey

35. The UAE

Other

36. North Korea

 

Appendix

Chronology (January-December 2021)

Abbreviation(A-L)

Abbreviation(M-Z)

 

Country-by-Country Evaluation

Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Nuclear Security

 

Recommendation

Recommendation

 

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