Ban on Nuke Tests OK, But Where’s the Ban on Nuke Weapons?

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By THALIF DEEN

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As the United Nations commemorated the International Day Against Nuclear Tests on Aug. 29, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented the fact that in a world threatened by some 17,000 nuclear weapons, not a single one has been destroyed so far. [P]  GERMAN | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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OPINION: Why Kazakhstan Dismantled its Nuclear Arsenal

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By KAIRAT ABDRAKHMANOV*

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – August 29 is the fifth observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. One of the first decrees of President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was the historic decision to close on Aug. 29, 1991 the Semipalatinsk Nuclear test site, the second largest in the world.

Kazakhstan also voluntarily gave up the world’s fourth largest nuclear arsenal, with more than 110 ballistic missiles and 1,200 nuclear warheads with the capacity to reach any point on this earth. [P]  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | SPANISH

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Remembering Hiroshima For The Sake Of Our Common Future – Norwegian

Erindringer av Hiroshima på grunn av vår felles fremtid

Av Monzurul Huq

TOKYO (IDN) – Menneskets minne er kort, spesielt når det kommer til det å minnes krig og ødeleggelse. Utallige detaljer fra ulike ganger portretterte redegjørelser av elendighet og menneskelige lidelser som sannsynligvis minner oss på noe vagt og abstrakt, noe fjernt og noe som ikke helt angår oss, noe som ikke relaterer seg til de realitetene som vi står ovenfor til enhver tid.

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Austrian Parliament Backs Government Efforts For Nuclear Disarmament – Japanese

オーストリア議会、核軍縮に向けた政府の取り組みを後押し

【ウィーンIDN＝ジャムシェッド・バルーア】

オーストリア政府が１２月８日から９日にかけてウィーンで開催される第３回「核兵器の非人道性に関する国際会議」に向けた準備を進める中、オーストリア議会が、核兵器のない世界を導くための同国の取り組みに法的基盤を与えた。

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Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat – Japanese

今もなお続く核の脅威を照射する原爆忌

【東京IPS＝スベンドリニ・カクチ】

原爆投下から６９年が経過したが、１９万人にのぼる被爆者とその子孫の方々にとってあの日の記憶は今なお鮮明に残っている。あれから６９年が経過したが、公式の謝罪は未だにない。あれから６９年が経過したが―人類は依然として、核兵器による惨事が再び繰り返されかねない恐ろしい現実に直面している。

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Die ‘Bombe’ lebt – 69 Jahre nach Hiroshima ist die Gefahr nicht gebannt

Von Suvendrini Kakuchi

Tokio (IPS) – Seit dem Abwurf der Atombombe auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki sind 69 Jahre vergangen. Für die Überlebenden und deren Nachfahren ist die Erinnerung frisch, und sie warten bis heute auf eine formelle Entschuldigung von Seiten der Verursacher, den USA. Die Gefahr, dass sich eine solche Katastrophe wiederholen könnte, ist besorgniserregend hoch.

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Austrian Parliament Backs Government Efforts For Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By JAMSHED BARUAH

VIENNA (IDN) – As the Austrian government prepares to host the third international conference on the humanitarian consequences of atomic weapons on December 8-9 in Vienna, the county’s parliament has provided it the legal basis for its commitment to usher in a world without nuclear weapons of mass destruction. [P] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Nuke Proliferation in East Asia Affects International Security – Japanese

国際安全保障に影響与える東アジアの核拡散

【ローマIDN＝バレンティーナ・ガスバッリ】

４月２８日で国連安保理決議１５４０（大量破壊兵器の不拡散に関する決議）の採択から１０周年を迎えるのを機に、相も変らぬ国際安全保障の現状から一歩引いて、長期的なトレンドを分析してみるのもいいかもしれない。

核兵器と弾道ミサイルの拡散による脅威は、２１世紀の主要な安全保障上の問題のひとつである。ベルリンの壁崩壊と冷戦終結によって、安全保障の枠組みと安全保障に関する認識は徐々に弱まってきている。

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IPPNW To Discuss Test Ban Treaty Future in Kazakhstan

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By JOHN LORETZ*

In the late 1980s, IPPNW helped bridge a dangerous and divided world to connect grassroots activists who wanted to stop nuclear testing by the United States and the former Soviet Union. Those “activists” were, in fact, ordinary people whose lives had been damaged (and sometimes taken from them) and whose communities had been destroyed by the contamination from nuclear weapons tests, which continued underground long after the Partial Test Ban Treaty outlawed them in the atmosphere, under water, and in space in 1963.

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69 Years On: Need To Tread A Nuke Free Road

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By AKIRA KAWASAKI*

August 6, 2014 marked the 69th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon over Japan. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki held ceremonies commemorating those hundreds of thousands who perished in the two nuclear attacks in 1945, and the countless more whose lives would forever be affected. But in these past decades, can we say that we have truly learned from the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Is our recognition of the suffering inflicted upon those cities matched with the concrete action to ensure that it can never be repeated? Akira Kawasaki answers these and other questions in a contribution to IDN partner Pressenza.

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