Preserving the NPT: When Nuclear Policies Backfire
At the 2026 NPT Review Conference at UN Headquarters in New York, Pugwash and the Project on Managing the Atom will host a side event titled “Preserving the NPT: When Nuclear Policies Backfire.” The session brings together five leading experts who contributed to a new MIT Press open-access volume, examining how core instruments of nuclear statecraft—such as counterproliferation measures, supply-side controls, missile defense systems, and related policy practices—can generate unintended consequences that complicate diplomacy, weaken strategic stability, and ultimately strain the Non-Proliferation Treaty regime.
Date: Friday, May 8
Time: 10:00AM - 12noon
Location:
Conference Room A
United Nations Headquarters
405 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
Chair: Dr. Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Speakers:
Dr. David M. Allison, Lecturer and Nuclear Security Fellow, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Dr. Sarah Bidgood, Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and International Security, University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; Incoming Assistant Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Stephen Herzog, Professor of the Practice, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Affairs; Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. Daniel Salisbury, Senior Fellow for Nuclear Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, International Institute for Strategic Studies
All participants that are accredited at the Review Conference are very welcome to attend, and no RSVP is required in advance.
For more information, please reach out to Jenna Beahn at jenna_beahn@hks.harvard.edu.
