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
AI and nuclear decisions: Toward an arms control framework
By: Haleema Saadia, Tynchtykbek Israiilov, Ekaterina  Mikhalevich, Jonas Sandbrink
Published in: Contemporary Security Policy (March 2025)

One Year After Jake Sullivan’s Speech at the Arms Control Association: The White House Arms Control Initiative Through Harvard’s Negotiation Lens
By: Kseniia Pirnavskaia, Jeremy Faust, Loïc Simonet
Published in: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (October 2024)

Achieving Success Beyond Final Documents: Recommendations for the 2026 NPT Review Conference
By: Ian Fleming Zhou, Valeriia Hesse, Anna-Elisabeth Schmitz, Karina Touzinsky
Published in: Arms Control Today (May 2024)

Redressing the Toxic Legacy of Nuclear Testing
By: Ekaterina Lapanovich, Laura Lepsy, Alain Ponce Blancas
Published in: Arms Control Today (January/February 2024)

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 2024
AI in nuclear command and control: Prospects for an international agreement to keep a human in the loop
By Haleema Saadia, Tynchtykbek Israiilov, Ekaterina  Mikhalevich, Jonas Sandbrink

One Year After Jake Sullivan's ACA Speech: The White House Arms Control Initiative through Harvard's Negotiation Lens  Review Conference
By Vanda Czifra, Jeremy Faust, Kseniia Pirnavskaia, Loïc Simonet

Success Beyond Final Documents: Strategic Recommendations for the 2026 NPT Review Conference
By Ian Fleming Zhou, Valeriia Hesse, Anna-Elisabeth Schmitz, Karina Touzinsky

Harnessing Middle Powers to Restart Multilateral Negotiations and Decrease Nuclear Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
By Maureen Ahmed, Rut Einarsdóttir, Henry Kim, Milana Ozerina


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

AI and Atoms: How AI is Revolutionizing Nuclear Material Production 
By Jingjie He, Nikita Degtyarev

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