At a time of global turmoil and of a growing crisis for the nuclear order, the 2025 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) met in New York in April-May 2025 to adopt recommendations for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The Review Conferences serve to "review the progress of the Treaty". At the last two NPT Review Conferences (2015 and 2022), states could not agree on an outcome, and the two prior PrepComs (2023 and 2024) in the current review cycle struggled to achieve anything tangible. Over the past decade, the failure of NPT states parties to implement existing commitments or agree to new ones means that the Treaty is in serious jeopardy. This presentation will highlight key issues raised and ignored at the 2025 meeting, and suggest possible implications for the 2026 Review Conference. In advance of the seminar, resources and reporting relating to the 2025 Preparatory Committee are available at NPT News in Review - https://reachingcriticalwill.org/disarmament-fora/npt/2025/nir
About the speaker: Ray Acheson is an organizer and writer, and a visiting researcher with Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security. They are Director of Reaching Critical Will, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, for which they provide analysis about and advocacy to international diplomatic forums on disarmament and demilitarization. Ray served on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons from 2008 to 2024 and is active in coalitions and campaigns against weapons, the global arms trade, and war. They are author of "Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy" and "Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages."