If Provoked, U.S. Public Likely to Support Nuclear Attack

Analysis by Rodney Reynolds

NEW YORK (IDN) – When President Barack Obama made a historic visit on May 27 to Hiroshima – where a U.S. nuclear attack on Japan in 1945 resulted in over 200,000 casualties* – he offered no apologies for the human devastation nor provided any justification for the first and only use of nuclear weapons ever. [P08] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | SPANISH

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If Provoked, U.S. Public Likely to Support Nuclear Attack

Analysis by Rodney Reynolds

NEW YORK (IDN) – When President Barack Obama made a historic visit on May 27 to Hiroshima – where a U.S. nuclear attack on Japan in 1945 resulted in over 200,000 casualties* – he offered no apologies for the human devastation nor provided any justification for the first and only use of nuclear weapons ever. [P08] ARABIC | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | SPANISH

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UN Group Explores Ways Out of Nuclear Stalemate – Arabic

مجموعة الأمم المتحدة تستكشف الطرق للخروج من الأزمة النووية

تحليل

جامشيد بارواه

جنيف (IDN) – أوكلت الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة مجموعة عمل مفتوحة (OEWG) بتشكيل مخطط لبناء عالم خال من الأسلحة النووية. وقد فشلت جلستا المجموعة – من 22-26 فبراير  و 2-13 مايو- في الاتفاق على مسودة خطة. ولكن الجلسة الأخيرة التي استمرت لثلاثة أيام في أغسطس كان من المقرر أن تناقش التقرير النهائي مع التوصيات للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة.

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Countdown Begins for Kazakhstan’s Election to Security Council

Analysis by J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – As countdown begins for the election of five non-permanent members to the UN Security Council for 2017-2018, Kazakhstan – an unrelenting campaigner for a nuclear weapons free world and diverting funds to sustainable development – is strengthening its bid for a single seat reserved for the Asia-Pacific Group. The Central Asian country is pitted against Thailand.

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Obama’s Hiroshima Debut Does Not Prohibit Nuclear Weapons

Analysis by Ramesh Jaura

ISE-SHIMA | Japan (IDN) – Despite President Barack Obama’s call for a “world without nuclear weapons” during his ‘historic’ visit to Hiroshima, the city where the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, causing over 140,000 casualties, the United States is nowhere close to prohibiting nuclear weapons. [P07] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Obama’s Hiroshima Debut Does Not Prohibit Nuclear Weapons

Analysis by Ramesh Jaura

ISE-SHIMA | Japan (IDN) – Despite President Barack Obama’s call for a “world without nuclear weapons” during his ‘historic’ visit to Hiroshima, the city where the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, causing over 140,000 casualties, the United States is nowhere close to prohibiting nuclear weapons. [P07] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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UN Working Group Urged to Assist in Banning Nukes – Japanese

国連作業部会に核兵器禁止への助力を呼びかけ

【ジュネーブIDN＝ジャムシェッド・バルーア】

核兵器廃絶を呼びかけるさまざまな宗教団体による共同声明の強力なメッセージは、バラク・オバマ大統領が５月２７日に広島を訪問するとの決定に対する国連の潘基文事務総長の反応によって、強く支持されている。

オバマ氏は、１９４５年８月６日に米国が投下した史上初の原子爆弾で壊滅したこの日本の都市を先進７カ国首脳会議（G７）参加の機会を捉えて訪問する初の米国の現役大統領となる。広島への原爆投下の３日後には長崎を壊滅させた第２の原爆投下が続き、合計で２０万人以上が犠牲となった。

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Leadership in Disarmament Will Benefit Canada at UN

Viewpoint by Paul Dewar

This article is being reproduced courtesy of The Toronto Star. The writer is a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Ottawa Centre. He served as the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs, until he left the post in October 2011 to run for the leadership of the NDP.

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Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World Intensifies – Japanese

強まる核兵器廃絶運動

【ジュネーブIDN＝ラヴィ・カントゥ・デヴァラコンダ】

核兵器がテロリストの手に落ちるリスクの高まりに国際社会が取り組む中、核兵器国（米国・ロシア・中国・フランス・英国・イスラエル・インド・パキスタン、北朝鮮）は、恐るべき核弾頭が存在しない世界を作り出すための勧告を準備しているジュネーブでの多国間核軍縮協議に背を向けている。

核兵器禁止条約を実現するための取組みを強化するため、「核廃絶国際キャンペーン」（ICAN）の呼び掛けに信仰を基盤とする団体を含む約１３０人の運動家が集結した。ICANの会合は核軍縮に向けた国連公開作業部会（OEWG）第二会期（５月２日～１３日）に先だって開催された。OEWGの第一会期は２月２２日から２６日にかけてジュネーブで開催されている。

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Making Nuclear Arms Race Come to Its End

Analysis by Anastasia Shavrova *

This article appears in cooperation with the CTBTO, as part of the initiative ‘Youth for CTBTO’. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the CTBT. – Editor

MOSCOW (IDN) – The year 2016 is an important milestone for the international nonproliferation regime. It marks the 20th anniversary of opening for signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Back in 1996, after two years of intense negotiations, the then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali announced that the opening for signature of CTBT could unleash a new era. And the Treaty, regardless of many differences that arose among States during the negotiation process, “meets the demand of the great majority of the world’s people for a clear signal that the nuclear arms race is coming towards its end”.

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