Hiroshima Prefecture jointly research with world leading international research institutes toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. Hiroshima Prefecture uses the output of the research at conferences it organizes with the aim of contributing to concrete process toward nuclear disarmament. Such occasions include, for example, the NPT Review Conference.

Hiroshima Prefecture signs the MOU with United Nations Institutes for Disarmament research (UNIDIR), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and conducts the joint researches. In 2021, University of Leicester in UK provides its academic expertise to the joint research project.

FY2021

１．University of Leicester

• Theme: Deterrence, Disruptive Technology and Disarmament in the Third Nuclear Age
• Author: Andrew Futter, Professor of International Politics 
• Download:　https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Deterrence-Disruptive-Technology-and-Disarmament-in-the-Third-Nuclear-Age.pdf

 

２．SIPRI

• Theme: Revisiting ‘Minimal Nuclear Deterrence’: Laying the Ground for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
• Author: Tytti Erästö, Senior Researcher, Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme
• Download:  https://www.sipri.org/publications/2022/sipri-insights-peace-and-security/revisiting-minimal-nuclear-deterrence-laying-ground-multilateral-nuclear-disarmament

FY2020

１．SIPRI

• Theme: New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament: Outlining a Way Forward
• Download:　https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/2105_new_technologies_and_nuclear_disarmament_0.pdf

 

２．Chatham House

• Theme: Nuclear Deterrence Discourse: Knowledge, assumptions, uncertainties and policy implications (International Security Programme Workshop Summary)
• Download: https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Nuclear-Deterrence-Discourse.pdf

FY2019

１．SIPRI

• Theme: Towards Greater Nuclear Restraint: Raising the Threshold for Nuclear Weapon Use
• Download:　https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/sipriinsight2006_2.pdf

FY2018

１．SIPRI

• Theme: Operationalizing nuclear disarmament verification
• Download:　https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/sipriinsight1904_0.pdf

 

２．Chatham House

• Theme: Different perspectives in examining nuclear deterrence in the 21^st century
• Download: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/04/perspectives-nuclear-deterrence-21st-century

FY2017

１．UNIDIR

• Theme: Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons in North East Asia
• Download: en-702.pdf

 

２．SIPRI

• Theme: Setting the stage for progress towards nuclear disarmament
• Download: https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SIPRI2018.pdf

FY2016

１．UNIDIR

• Theme: The NPT and the Prohibition Negotiation: Scope for Bridge-building

１．The mirage of nuclear deterrence –Lessons for allies

２．Nuclear Disarmament and a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

• Download：the-npt-and-the-prohibition-negotiation-en-682.pdf

 

２．SIPRI

• Theme: Engagement on nuclear disarmament between nuclear weapon-possessing states and non-nuclear weapon states
• Download:　Engagement-nuclear-disarmament.pdf