Nuclear risk reduction discussions are often complicated by differing views on its scope and purpose. To help address this challenge, this compendium serves as an accessible global reference point for nuclear risk reduction discussions.
It has three core objectives:
- First, it maps the current landscape of official nuclear risk reduction policy proposals.
- Second, it organizes proposed risk reduction measures into a framework of eight overarching categories, enabling the range of measures to be considered within a single, coherent resource.
- And third, it analyses these measures by drawing out the similarities, differences and nuances across the various policy proposals.
The compendium concludes with a list of the official risk reduction documents referenced throughout the publication, totalling over 100 documents. This list provides easy access to over a decade of official proposals by States in their own words.
Citation: Sarah Ruth Opatowski, Nuclear Risk Reduction: An Illustrative Compendium (Geneva: UNIDIR, 2026). https://doi.org/10.37559/WMD/26/NRR/01.