Strategic Defence Review and spending plans for the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy will become a ‘hybrid navy’ with uncrewed vessels operating alongside traditional warships. What does this mean and how will it be funded?
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Preparations for the 2015 NPT Review Conference (325KB PDF)
A review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is held every five years in order to assess the implementation of the treaty’s provisions and to agree further measures to strengthen it.
The success of past Review Conferences has been mixed. With near universality, consensus between the nuclear and the non-nuclear weapon states on how to achieve global nuclear disarmament and strengthen non-proliferation has been problematic. The question of whether the nuclear weapon states have sufficiently fulfilled the requirements of Article VI on nuclear disarmament continues to be contentious.
The next Review Conference is due to be held in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2015.
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Preparations for the 2015 NPT Review Conference (325KB PDF)
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The new US–Denmark–Greenland agreement
The US, Denmark, and Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark), have signed a new agreement on the defence of Greenland. It expands the US’s military presence in Greenland and gives it a greater role in the island's security.