U.S. Mayors Warn Against Largest NATO ‘War Games’ – Japanese

米国の市長ら、NATO最大の「軍事演習」に反発

 【トロント／インディアナポリスIDN＝J・C・スレシュ】

「１万４０００人の米軍兵士を参加させた過去数十年で最大のNATO軍事演習と、米国による東欧でのミサイル防衛計画の発動が、核武装した大国間の緊張の火に油を注いでいる」と警告したのは、全米市長会議（USCM）である。７月８・９両日に北大西洋条約機構（２８カ国）がポーランドの首都ワルシャワでサミットを開催する直前のことである。

インディアナポリスで６月２４～２７日に開催された全米市長会議第８４回年次総会で採択された決議は「広島・長崎級原爆よりもはるかに強力な爆発力を持つ１万５０００発以上の核兵器（その内９４％を米国とロシアが保有）が、諸都市と人類に対して受け入れがたい脅威を与え続けている。」と述べている。

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Montreal World Social Forum to Focus on Nuclear Disarmament

By J C Suresh

TORONO (IDN) – The World Social Forum (WSF), the largest civil society gathering to find solutions to the problems of our time, will convene for the first time in a northern country – in Canada – from August 9 to 14.

Montreal will host the 12th World Social Forum that was launched in 2001 in Porto Alegre, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. One of the key issues in focus will be: “Once a nuclear war starts, there’s no way to limit it.”

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Astana and Geneva Preparing Ban-the-Bomb Conferences

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA (IDN) – Kazakhstan will host an international conference on August 28-29 to build and strengthen political will for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons, some 15,000 of which are threatening the very survival of humankind.

The conference in Astana is being organised by the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). [P16] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Astana and Geneva Preparing Ban-the-Bomb Conferences

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA (IDN) – Kazakhstan will host an international conference on August 28-29 to build and strengthen political will for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons, some 15,000 of which are threatening the very survival of humankind.

The conference in Astana is being organised by the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND). [P16]  JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Bangladesh Opting for Peace Rather Than Nuclear Arms – Japanese

核兵器よりも平和を選ぶバングラデシュ

【ダッカ（バングラデシュ）IDN＝ナイムル・ハク】

世界的には核攻撃が発生する脅威が増大している中で、核兵器保有国に囲まれたバングラデシュは、「核クラブ」に加わるよりも、平和国家であり続けることを選択しようとしている。

同国の安全保障専門家らは、世界平和を追求し国際的な核関連諸条約を遵守する政府の方針を支持しながらも、冷戦は終結したが、核攻撃の可能性は依然として現実のものである、と述べている。

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Ratifications of Test Ban Treaty Still a Nuclear Fantasy – Japanese

包括的核実験禁止条約批准は依然として「核のファンタジー」

【国連IDN＝ロドニー・レイノルズ】

 国連内外で、イスラエルがおそらく今後５年以内に包括的核実験禁止条約（CTBT）批准を検討しているらしいとの推測が広まっている。

しかし、これは政治的現実なのか、それとも核のファンタジーなのか？

こうした推測は、包括的核実験禁止条約機構（CTBTO）のラッシーナ・ゼルボ事務局長によるイスラエルへの３日間の訪問の後に出てきた。ゼルボ事務局長は訪問中の６月２０日、イスラエルのベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相と会談している。

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Support for ‘Obama Nuclear Doctrine’ by Executive Order

Analysis by Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – Despite protests by Republican congressional leaders and the heads of Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, President Barack Obama is garnering wide support for his reported plan to implement at least a part of his cherished nuclear agenda through a series of executive actions during the next months before leaving the White House.

None of the executive options Obama is considering require formal congressional approval. In fact, all of those actions would “fall under his executive authority as commander-in-chief”, says David Krieger, president of the U.S.-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF). [P15] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Support for ‘Obama Nuclear Doctrine’ by Executive Order

Analysis by Ramesh Jaura

BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – Despite protests by Republican congressional leaders and the heads of Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, President Barack Obama is garnering wide support for his reported plan to implement at least a part of his cherished nuclear agenda through a series of executive actions during the next months before leaving the White House.

None of the executive options Obama is considering require formal congressional approval. In fact, all of those actions would “fall under his executive authority as commander-in-chief”, says David Krieger, president of the U.S.-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF). [P15] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Learning About the Bomb is the Best Way to Reduce Nuclear Dangers

 By Sameer Lalwani and Michael Krepon*

(The Wire) It’s hard to learn about the Bomb in the media. Other issues have a higher call on public attention and press coverage, like counter-terrorism in Pakistan and China’s rise in India. Journal articles in publications devoted to security topics reflect other priorities: Over the past ten years nuclear security research has only featured in 14% of the articles in Strategic Studies published by the Islamabad Strategic Studies Institute and in only seven percent of the articles in Strategic Analysis, published by India’s Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses.

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Britain Renews Commitment to Nuclear Weapons

LONDON (ICAN) – Late on Monday 18 July, the British parliament voted in favour of building four new nuclear-powered submarines to carry US Trident missiles armed with modernized nuclear warheads for the next half century.

The vote gives permission to the government to sign multi-billion pound contracts with the aim of ensuring that the UK will continue to possess and deploy an enormously dangerous arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, threatening other countries and exposing its people to serious risks of nuclear accidents, use or attacks for a further generation.

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