Global Risk and Crisis Management Program
Russia’s Nuclear Threat, China’s Speaking Power: Anomalies in the NPT Conference, Professor Akiyama Explains [in Japanese]
DateAugust 21, 2022
BibliographyAsahi Shimbun
Summary Professor Nobumasa Akiyama attended the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference held from August 21 to August 26 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and explained the issues that were brought up. Through his experience of attending the NPT Review Conference since 2000, Professor Akiyama described the key points of the conference and explained the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the conference and what the participating countries discussed.