This course is devoted primarily to a simulation of the postponed 2020 NPT Review Conference, which

has been rescheduled for the first half of 2021. The conference will involve multilateral negotiations on

the implementation of the NPT, with special reference to issues of nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation,

and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Based on the outcome of the 2015 Review Conference, the 2017

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and the results of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 NPT

Preparatory Committee meetings, one would expect major debates at the Review Conference on the

subjects of nuclear disarmament (including the US initiative on Creating an Environment for Nuclear

Disarmament, the “Ban Treaty.” and the impact of the unravelling of arms control accords such as the INF

Treaty on the NPT), nuclear risk reduction (and the deterioration of US-Russian relations), creation of

additional nuclear-weapon-free zones (especially in the Middle East), DPRK nuclear developments, the

demise of the JCPOA, other regional nuclear threats, negative security assurances, nonproliferation

compliance, international safeguards, nuclear terrorism, peaceful nuclear uses, and provisions for

withdrawal from the Treaty. The course will rely as much as possible on in-person deliberations, but plans

have been made to conduct the negotiations in a realistic virtual environment if necessary.