Department news from Nick Ritchie

Nick has shared some news for what he's been up to recently:

• He has been at the Third Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons  (TPNW) at the UN in New York all last week (3-9 March) as an official advisor to the New Zealand Delegation.
• He has also spoken to the 100+ diplomatic delegations as part of the second Thematic Panel on The Risks to Humanity of a Nuclear Conflict, chaired by the chair of the Conference, Ambassador Akan Rakhmetullin (Kazakhstan).
• He has presented research at a side event hosted by Austria on 'Nuclear Risks Research and the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor 2024'
• He has presented research at a side event hosted by New Zealand and  the TPNW Scientific Advisory Group on 'Elimination Nuclear Weapons Programmes as Part of a Time-Bound Irreversible Plan'.
• Finally, he has presented to the full plenary of diplomatic delegations as part of the feedback by New Zealand and Malaysia on the intersessional Working Group on Article 4 of the treaty (on verification of the irreversible elimination of a nuclear weapons programme), of which he is a member.