Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change Threaten Human Survival

John Avery interviews David Krieger

COPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – One of the five “M’s” can trigger a nuclear war any time: malice, madness, mistake, miscalculation and manipulation. “Of these five, only malice is subject to possibly being prevented by nuclear deterrence and of this there is no certainty. But nuclear deterrence (threat of nuclear retaliation) will not be at all effective against madness, mistake, miscalculation or manipulation (hacking),” David Krieger tells John Scales Avery in an exceptional interview. [P 16] BAHASA | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI

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Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change Threaten Human Survival

John Avery interviews David Krieger

COPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – One of the five “M’s” can trigger a nuclear war any time: malice, madness, mistake, miscalculation and manipulation. “Of these five, only malice is subject to possibly being prevented by nuclear deterrence and of this there is no certainty. But nuclear deterrence (threat of nuclear retaliation) will not be at all effective against madness, mistake, miscalculation or manipulation (hacking),” David Krieger tells John Scales Avery in an exceptional interview. [P 16] BAHASA | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | THAI

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Streitlustige Politik und feindseliger Diskurs überschatten Abrüstungsinitiativen der Vereinten Nationen

Von Jaya Ramachandran

NEW YORK (IDN) – “Wenn man das diesjährige Erste Komitee mit nur einem einzigen Wort beschreiben müsste, wäre streitsüchtig eine angemessene Wahl. Die zunehmende Zahl – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – der Anschuldigungen und Ablehnungen ist so nah an Beschimpfungen, wie es in diplomatischen Foren möglich ist”, sagt Ray Acheson, Direktor von Reaching Critical Will in einem Editorial in der November-5-Ausgabe des ‘First Committee Monitor 2018’.

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It is High Time for the U.S. and Russia to Get Off the Treadmill to Catastrophe

Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball

The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. He wrote this editorial for the December issues of Arms Control Today.

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “[t]he Cold War is back…but with a difference. The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present.”

Indeed, the United States and Russia are planning to spend trillions of dollars to replace and upgrade their nuclear arsenals at force levels that far exceed what is required to deter nuclear attack. China is also improving its nuclear weapons capabilities.

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The Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons Violates the Right to Life, Warns a UN Committee

国連人権委員会、核兵器の使用とその威嚇は生命権への侵害と警告

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核兵器の使用やその威嚇は「生命に対する権利の尊重と両立せず」、「国際法における犯罪に該当する可能性がある」と国連人権委員会が警告した。１０月３０日に採択された、自由権規約第６条「生命に対する権利」に関する一般コメントNo.３６(２０１８)で指摘された。

一般コメントの第３パラグラフによると、「生命に対する権利」とは、市民的及び政治的権利に関する国際規約（自由権規約）第６条に成文化されている通り、「不自然あるいは早期の死を引きおこすことを意図した、あるいは、それが予測されるような行為や不作為から解放されて生き、同時に、尊厳ある人生を享受する個人の権利」である。

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U.S. INF Treaty Termination May Once Again Trigger Nuclear Arms Race

By Daryl G. Kimball and Kingston A. Reif

The following is the text of the analysis in Issue Brief (Volume 10, Issue 10, December 4, 2018) by the Arms Control Association (ACA). Daryl G. Kimball, is the executive director and Kingston A. Reif the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy of ACA. – The Editor

WASHINGTON; DC (IDN-INPS) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared [on December 4] Russia in material breach of the landmark 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and announced that the United States plans to suspend U.S. obligations under the treaty in 60 days unless Russia returns to compliance.

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