This sixth volume of the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on current legal challenges regarding nuclear disarmament and security.

Chapter 1. Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and Security: prevailing.- Part I. Global and Regional Challenges.- Chapter 2. International Law and the Problem of Change: The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament.- Chapter 3. The 2020 NPT Review Conference: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Objectives of Permanence with Accountability at Stake.- Chapter 4. The Conference on the Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Too Little, Too Late?- Chapter 5. Inquiring into the Global Anti-Proliferation Financing Strategy.- Part II. Indigenous and Environmental Concerns.- Chapter 6. Indigenous Peoples' Human Right to Water in the Nuclear Age: An Assessment of the Protection Under International Law.- Chapter 7. The Global Impact of Nuclear Activity on Indigenous Peoples and How International Law Falls Short in Protecting Them.- Chapter 8. South Africa's Approach to Nuclear Waste Management: Seeking Long-term Solutions to the Nuclear Waste Conundrum.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of Decommissioning Planning: Tracing the Requirements to Consider Radioactive and Non-fuel Wastes and Social Risk.- Part III. Social, Logistical and Technological Tasks.- Chapter 10. China's Nuclear Prowess: A Formidable Nuclear Military Power and a Nuclear Energy Power House.- Chapter 11. Backchannel Non-Proliferation: Non-Aligned States and Nuclear Diplomacy.- Chapter 12. The Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Weapons and the Need to Advance a New Set of Norms.- Chapter 13. Ethics-based Decision Making for Nuclear Power: Suggestions for Energy Policy and Technology.- Part IV. Emerging Norms and Future Development.- Chapter 14. The Security Impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).- Chapter 15. The Impact of the TPNW on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime.- Chapter 16. Altering the Focus from the Ostensible Object and Purpose of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to Collateral Treaty Effects of Strategic Nature.- Chapter 17. Stigmatisation as aRoad to Denuclearisation. The Stigmatising Effect of the TPNW.- Chapter 18. Enforcing Sanctions on Iran at Sea: Tensions over the Interpretation of the Law of the Sea.- Chapter 19. General Principles and Shared Interests as Elements of Nuclear Non-Proliferation