From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference By Katsuhiro Asagiri Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference By Katsuhiro Asagiri IAEA’s 70th General Conference highlights growing strains on safeguards and nuclear security as attention shifts to the first review of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. VIENNA, Sep 24 2026 (IPS) - The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York to renewed disputes over safeguards and nuclear security in Vienna—and toward the first Review Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) later this year. The 70th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), held in Vienna from September 14 to 18, came less than four months after the 11th NPT Review Conference ended without consensus on a substantive outcome. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/from-vienna-to-new-york-nuclear-governance-faces-new-tests-ahead-of-first-tpnw-review-conference/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Forty_Years_of_the_Right_to_Development_When_Growth_Excludes_Is_It_Still_Development_Floods_Hunger_a Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -