Disarmament Conference Ends with Ambitious Goal – But How to Get There? – Japanese

国連軍縮会議が野心的な目標を設定―しかし、それをどう達成するか？

【広島IPS＝ラメシュ・ジャウラ】

広島で３日にわたって開催された国連軍縮会議が、「核実験に反対する国際デー」を翌日に控えるなか閉幕した。会議では、核兵器なき世界を実現する必要性は強調されたが、その目標にどう向かうかについてはコンセンサスが得られなかった。

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Solo hay una forma de evitar la guerra nuclear

Por Gunnar Westberg

GOTEMBURGO, Suecia (IPS) – La Comisión de Canberra sobre la eliminación de las armas nucleares estaba integrada por líderes políticos o militares de antaño, entre otros un mariscal de campo británico, un secretario de Defensa estadounidense y un primer ministro francés.

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Opinion: Can Nuclear War be Avoided?

By Gunnar Westberg *

GÖTEBORG, Sweden (IPS) – The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons had as members former leading politicians or military officers, among others a British Field Marshal, an American General, an American Secretary of Defence and a French Prime Minister.

The commission unanimously agreed in its report in 1996 that “the proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never be used – accidentally or by decision – defies credibility. The only complete defence is the elimination of nuclear weapons and assurance that they will never be produced again.”

So that’s it: Nuclear weapons will be used if they are allowed to remain with us. And even a “small” nuclear war, using one percent or less of the world’s nuclear weapons, might cause a worldwide famine leading to the death of a billion humans or more. [P26] ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | PORTUGUESE |  SPANISH

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‘Generation of Change’ Pleads for Walking the Nuclear Abolition Talk

By Ronald Joshua

HIROSHIMA (IDN) – A new ‘Generation of Change’ is making its presence felt, pledging to walk the talk over the last 70 years in a clarion call for freeing the world of 16,000 to 17,000 nuclear weapons that continue “to threaten every single person with the prospect of a cruel and inhumane death”. [P25] CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | SWEDISH

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