ACONA Insights

As part of their ACONA experience, fellows collaborate on an international research project. Please find our fellows' publications below, as well as other publications that they have spun off their research.


ACONA External Publications

Building information resilience to reinforce arms control
By: Kate Zander, Mayra Ameneiros, Ance Baura, Tomas A. Nagy
Published in: The Bulletin (August 23, 2023)

AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material production
By: Jingjie He and Nikita Degtyarev
Published in: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (September 10, 2023)

ACONA Policy Briefs 2023

Perceptions of China, Russia, and the United States of the Opportunities and Limitations of Nuclear Talks 
By Katia Derbilova, Thomas MacDonald, Tetiana Melnyk, Helen Inga von Ernst

Building Information Resilience to Reinforce Arms Control 
By Kate Zander, Mayra Ameneiros, Ance Baura, Tomáš Nagy

Focus on the Problem, not the Treaty: Using Principled Negotiation to Establish Common Ground Between Critics & Proponents of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
By Esson Anzaku, Ekaterina Lapanovich, Laura Lepsy, Alain Ponce Blancas


ACONA Policy Memos 2022

DPRK Policy in the Context of the Crisis in Ukraine
By Veronika Bedenko, Roman Kalinin, Jessica J. Lee, Yue Yuan

Delivering Stability through Safeguards - Two Possible Paths for the IAEA's Relationship with Iran
By Laura Brisbane, Elena Gai, Matthew Schleupner, Ali Rached

Options for Mutual Gains in Arms Control 
By Snaefridur Grimsdottir, Jordan Hibbs, Sayaka Shingu, Anna Wagner

NPNW & NPT - Japan as a Bridge-Builder
By Dominik P. Jankowski, Tianjiao Jiang, Marion Messmer, Gleb Toropchin


ACONA Reports 2021

A Shared Road to Zero? Towards a Common Language of Nuclear Diplomacy
By Álfrún Perla Baldursdóttir, Jessica Bufford, María Garzón Maceda, Maria Roskoshnaya  

Does One Size Fit All? How a P5 Interaction Could Reduce Nuclear Risks
By Iskander Akylbayev, Logan Brandt, Brynja Huld Óskarsdóttir, Astan Tugov

Reassessing Europe's Nuclear Order: Perspectives for a Nuclear Free Zone
By Amina Afzal, Alexander Graef, Marianne Fisher, Oleg Krivolapov