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Joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Deterrence, Non-Proliferation and the American Alliance

Edited by John Baylis and Yoko Iwama

What were the calculations made by the US and its major allies in the 1960s when they faced the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)? These were all states with the technological and financial capabilities to develop and possess nuclear weapons should they wish to do so. In the end, only the United Kingdom and France became nuclear weapon states. Eventually, all of them joined the non-proliferation regime... READ MORE HERE.

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Paper Publications

Jonter, Thomas. "スウェーデンと原爆 : 核開発から核軍縮へ" GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2020. (In Japanese)

Iwama, Yoko et. al. "Kazuhara Takenori: Oral History." Transcript of an Oral History conducted in 2017-2018 by Iwama Yoko, Takeda Yu, Shiratori Junichiro. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime and the Redefinition of Security Policies Research Project of JSPS (17H00972). GRIPS Research Paper. Tokyo: 2019, 99 pages. (In Japanese)

Arakaki, Hiromu. "Multilateralizing NATO Nuclear Sharing Arrangements -Formulation of the NATO MRBM Proposal under the Eisenhower Administration-." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2018. (In Japanese)

Lutsch, Andreas. "The German Nuclear Question, 1955-1975 - Conceptual Reflection on a Historical Reassessment." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2018.

Goroku, Tsuyoshi. "West Germany's Signature of the NPT and the Role of the United States, 1968-1969." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2018. (In Japanese)

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki. "Draft Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Britain, 1964-1965: ‘Non-Proliferation’ and ‘European Option’." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2018.

Kishi, Toshimitsu. "Deliberations on Japanese Nuclear Policy During the Sato Administration: Studies by the Cabinet Research Office." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2017.

Iwama, Yoko. "Adenauer and the West German Nuclear Problem." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2016. (in Japanese)

Kawashima, Shuichi. "EURATOM between European Nuclear Integration and World Nuclear Order, 1955-1958: Integration, Independence and Proliferation." GRIPS Discussion Papers. Tokyo: 2016. (in Japanese)

Kawashima, Shuichi.　「鼎談 イギリス総選挙が象徴する二十世紀的EUの限界 」(Tripartite Talks: The Limits of 20th Century Europe as Symbolised by the United Kingdom General Election), Chūōkōron, 129(7), 130-141, 2015-07.

Goroku, Tsuyoshi.「ウクライナ危機を受けてのNATOと米国の対応」(Response of NATO and the U.S. to the Ukrainian Crisis), Kokusai Josei, (85), 73-81, 2015-03.

Iwama, Yoko.「日本の安全保障と集団的自衛権」(Japan's Security and Right of Collective Self-defense) Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives),  (773), 16,  2014.

Kawashima, Shuichi. 「『幻のヨーロッパ』? : 欧州政治共同体をめぐって 1952-1954(2)」 ("Phantom Europe"?: On the European Political Community 1952-1954 (2) ) Seikei Ronsou 82(1・2), 133-202, 2014-0.

Kokubo, Chihaya.「NATO・EUの安全保障政策とアフリカ地域」(NATO · EU Security Policy and Africa) Kokusai Anzen Hoshou 41(4), 36-50, 2014-0.

Goroku, Tsuyoshi.「中性子爆弾問題をめぐる同盟関係、1977-78年 : カーター政権の対応を中心に」Kokusai Josei (84), 155-167, 2014-02.

Kobayashi,Hiroyuki.「第一次ハロルド・ウィルソン政権の大西洋核戦力構想」(The Atlantic Nuclear Force Plan of the First Harold Wilson Administration) Hougaku Seijigaku Ronkyu(97), 185-204, 2013.

Iwama Yoko.「同盟と国家建設 : NATOとアフガニスタン」(Alliance and State Construction: NATO and Afghanistan) Kokusai Seiji 2013(174), 125-38, 2013.