Congratulations to all previous winners of the Doreen & Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Award!
2020 Winners
- Grand Prize Winner: “The Smiling Buddha effect: Canadian and US policy after India’s 1974 nuclear test”
Joseph O’Mahoney
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading
Runners Up:
- “From CRISPR babies to super soldiers: challenges and security threats posed by CRISPR”
Sonia Ben Ouaghram-Gormley
Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University - “Sitting on the boundary: the role of reports in investigations into alleged biological-weapons use”
Caitríona McLeish and Joshua R. Moon
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
2019 Winners
- Grand Prize Winner: “Chinese views of the nuclear endgame in North Korea”
Covell Meyskens
Runners Up:
- “Becoming a disarmament champion: the Austrian crusade against nuclear weapons”
Emmanuelle Maitre and Pauline Lévy - “Wooing Kampala: a case study in implementing the nonproliferation sanctions against North Korea”
Sayaka Shingu - “Baekgom: the development of South Korea’s first ballistic missile”
Nicholas Seltzer
2018 Winners
Grand Prize Winners:
- “US technological collaboration for nonproliferation: key evidence from the Cold War,”
John Krige
Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology
and Jayita Sarkar
Assistant Professor, Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies - “Missing the mark: Dimona and Egypt’s slide into the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,”
Hassan Elbahtimy
Lecturer in Science and Security, King’s College London
Honorable Mention:
- “The humanitarian turn in nuclear disarmament and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,”
Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Postdoctoral research fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
2015 Winner
- “A Norm in All but Name: The Impact of an Idea on Two Nuclear Thinkers”
published in the NPR later as “Bedeviled by a Paradox: Nitze, Bundy, and an Incipient Nuclear Norm“
Reid B.C. Pauly
PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013 Winner
- “‘Disarmament Market’ Effects of Information Disclosures: Hypothesizing About the Role of Economic Theory in Analyzing the Transparency of the Nuclear Disarmament Process”
Alexander S. Kolbin
Non-resident expert, PIR Center
Military analyst, Volga-Dnepr Group, Moscow
2011 Winners
- “The Proliferation Risks of Gas Centrifuge Enrichment at the Dawn of the NPT: Shedding Light on the Negotiating History”
John Krige
Kranzberg Professor
School of History, Technology, and Society
Georgia Institute of Technology - “No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: A Nuclear-User-Pays Model of International Security”
Lyndon Burford
Ph.D. candidate in political studies
University of Auckland
New Zealand
View presentation videos by the winners at an NPR luncheon Briefing held on June 21, 2012 in Washington, DC.
2010 Winner
- Outstanding Student Essay Prize Winner
“Questioning the Nonproliferation Narrative”
Benoît Pelopidas
2009 Winners
- Grand Prize Winner
“Nuclear Weapons as the Currency of Power: Deconstructing the Fetishism of Force”
Anne Harrington de Santana - Best Student Essay
“Nuclear Proliferation: The Role and Regulation of Corporations“
Joshua Masters
View photos of the authors at an NPR luncheon Briefing.
2008 Winners
- Grand Prize Winner
“The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence”
Ward Wilson - First Runner-up
“Building Political Will: Branding the Nuclear-Free-World Movement”
Nathan Pyles - Best Student Essay
“Can the Euratom Treaty Inspire the Middle East? The Political Promises of Regional Nuclear Communities“
Grégoire Mallard - Best Student Essay
“The Good Faith Assumption: Different Paradigmatic Approaches to Nonproliferation Issues”
Russell Leslie
View presentation videos by the winners at an NPR luncheon Briefing.
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