Why Nuclear Disarmament Could Still Be the Most Important Thing There Is

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By RISTO ISOMAKI

In this column, Risto Isomäki, Finnish environmental activist and award-winning writer whose novels have been translated into several languages, describes the practically unimaginable capacity for destruction inherent in the nuclear facilities that currently exist around the world and argues that we have to try the impossible – force nuclear technologies back into the Pandora’s box from which they came.

HELSINKI (IPS) – At the height of the Cold War the world’s total arsenal of nuclear weapons, counted as explosive potential, may have amounted to three million Hiroshima bombs. The United States alone possessed 1.6 million Hiroshimas’ worth of destructive capacity.

Since then, much of this arsenal has been dismantled and the uranium in thousands of nuclear bombs has been converted to nuclear power plant fuel. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH

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Humanitarian Impact of Nukes Calls For Concerted Action – Japanese

｜視点｜「懸念の共有から行動の共有へ―ウィーン会議への期待」（池田大作創価学会インタナショナル会長）

【IPS東京＝池田大作】

広島と長崎への原爆投下から７０年となる明年を前に、核兵器に関わる議題の中心に「非人道性」の観点を据えるべきとの声が高まっている。

１０月に発表された「核兵器の人道的影響に関する共同声明」には、国連加盟国の８割を超える１５５カ国が賛同した。「いかなる状況下でも」核兵器が使用されないことが、人類の生存にとって重大な意味を持つとの認識が、今や国際社会で大きな潮流を形成しつつあるのだ。

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Humanitarian Impact of Nukes Calls For Concerted Action

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By DAISAKU IKEDA*

TOKYO (IPS | IDN) – As we approach the 70th anniversary next year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there are growing calls to place the humanitarian consequences of their use at the heart of deliberations about nuclear weapons.

The Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons presented to the U.N. General Assembly in October was supported by 155 governments, more than 80 percent of all member states. [P] GERMAN | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PERSIAN | SPANISH | TURKISH

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IPS Honours Crusader for Nuclear Abolition

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By ROGER HAMILTON-MARTIN

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Jayantha Dhanapala was awarded the IPS International Achievement Award for Nuclear Disarmament on Nov. 17 at the United Nations in New York.

Dhanapala, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs until 2003, has remained committed to the goal of a nuclear weapons-free world since leaving his post, presiding since 2007 over the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. GERMAN | JAPANESE | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH

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A Nuclear Weapon Free Zone for North-East Asia?

 Nuclear Abolition News | IDN

By JAYANTHA DHANAPALA

KANDY, Sri Lanka (IDN) – In 2015 it will be 70 years since the horrible bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA – the only time nuclear weapons were ever used. The urgent need to seek solutions over nuclear weapons in North-east Asia was highlighted in the following paragraphs from the Asia Pacific Leaders Network’s (APLN) Jakarta Declaration of September 2014:

“Acutely conscious that the world’s more than 16,000 remaining nuclear weapons are strongly concentrated in the Asia Pacific region, with the US and Russia having over 90 per cent of the world’s stockpile and major strategic footprints here, China, India, and Pakistan all having significant arsenals, and the breakout state of North Korea continuing to build its capability, [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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A Nuclear Weapon Free Zone for North-East Asia? – Japanese

北東アジアに非核兵器地帯？（ジャヤンタ・ダナパラ元軍縮問題担当国連事務次長）

【キャンディ（スリランカ）IDN＝ジャヤンタ・ダナパラ】

２０１５年、核兵器が米国によって史上唯一使用された広島・長崎への恐るべき原爆投下から７０年を迎える。北東アジアにおける核問題の解決を緊急に模索する必要性は、アジア太平洋核不拡散・核軍縮リーダーシップ・ネットワーク（APLN）が９月に発表した「ジャカルタ宣言」の次の文章に強調されている。

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Waiting For Zero Nuke – Chinese

期待天下无核

【日内瓦IDN＝拉维·坎茨】

即便人们有着彻底消灭核武器的愿景，于9月26号举行的联合国国际纪念日仍提醒着我们现在核武器依然对世界人民有致命的威胁。

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