Donald Trump’s Nuclear Posture Rather Menacing

By Daryl G. Kimball

Daryl G. Kimball is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. This article first appeared with the caption ‘Trump’s More Dangerous Nuclear Posture’.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – Just one year ago, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an address touting the progress achieved during the Obama years to reduce the salience and number of nuclear weapons and curb their spread.

Biden argued that “given our non-nuclear capabilities and the nature of today’s threats, it’s hard to envision a plausible scenario in which the first use of nuclear weapons by the United States would be necessary. Or make sense. President Obama and I are confident we can deter and defend ourselves and our allies against non-nuclear threats through other means.”

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Monitoring Dismantlement Key to Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

核廃絶の鍵を握る軍縮の監視

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国連総会で２０１７年７月７日に核兵器の全面廃止と根絶を求める核兵器禁止条約が採択されて以来、核兵器の解体と検証の問題が特に重要になってきた。なぜなら（核軍縮検証の分野には）適切な技術を開発するか再構築する必要のある領域がいくつかあるからだ。

過去４０年にわたって、米国とソ連（およびその継承国であるロシア）は、一連の二国間協定やその他の措置を通じて、核弾頭や戦略ミサイル、戦略爆撃機を相当程度制限し削減してきた。

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Israeli Disarmament Movement Steers Through Nuclear Ambiguity – Arabic

حركة نزع السلاح الإسرائيلية تشق طريقها وسط الغموض النووي

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عمان (IDN) – تجاهل الإعلام الإسرائيلي حفل جائزة نوبل للسلام التي أقيمت على شرف الحملة العالمية للقضاء على الأسلحة النووية (ICAN) في 10 ديسمبر، 2017 في أوسلو. إلا أن السفير الإسرائيلي في النرويج حضر هذا الحدث.

صمت الإعلام الإسرائيلي، وفقاً للمراقبين، لم يأت كمفاجأة بالرغم أن شريك ICAN البارز في الشرق الأوسط، حركة نزع السلاح الإسرائيلية (IDM)، التي تم تأسيسها ورئاسة مجلس إدارتها بواسطة شارون دوليف، أثرت على الخطاب العام الإسرائيلي على مر الست أعوام الماضية.

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Landmark Vatican Conference on Nuclear Disarmament Brings a Breeze of Expectation

By Ramesh Jaura

The following article is based on an interview with Hirotsugu Terasaki, the Director General of Peace and Global Issues of the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International (SGI), in Tokyo, Japan. SGI was the sole Buddhist organization that participated in the Vatican Conference on nuclear disarmament on November 10-11, 2017.

BERLIN | ROME (IDN) – There was an air of surprise when religious leaders and representatives of civil society, officials of State and international organizations, eminent academics, Nobel Laureates, and students, gathered in the Vatican City against the backdrop of an escalating face-off between the U.S. and North Korea.

Surprise because for the first time the Vatican’s newly created Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development was hosting a Conference on the ‘Perspectives for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament’.

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Former ICBM Launch Officer Calls for Reforming Presidential Nuclear Launch Authority

By J C Suresh

TORONTO | WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) – Cofounder of the organization Global Zero, and a former Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer has called for major changes to prevent a U.S. President from ordering the use of nuclear weapons.

In a new article published in the forthcoming issue of Arms Control Today, Bruce Blair, who is also a member of the Princeton University research faculty, provides an authoritative summary of current U.S. nuclear launch protocol and its dangerous liabilities. The article includes new information about the process, including who is involved and how a nuclear use order would be executed.

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El Jefe de la ONU espera que las nuevas sanciones ayuden a hacer de 2018 “un año crucial” para la Península Coreana

Por J Nastranis

NACIONES UNIDAS (IDN) – El Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, António Guterres, expresó su deseo de que el 2018 sea “un año crucial” para el logro de una paz sostenible en la Península Coreana.

En una declaración atribuible a su portavoz, tras la aprobación de una nueva resolución del Consejo de Seguridad (RCSNU 2397), dijo: “La única forma de avanzar hacia una solución pacífica y política integral requiere ahora la desescalada y canales de comunicación abiertos”.

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Ten Nuclear Wishes For The New Year

By David Krieger

1. That Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s past will not become any other city’s future.
2. That the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will get at least 50 ratifications and enter into force.
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