Argentine Diplomat Is New Head of the UN Nuclear Agency IAEA

By Jamshed Baruah

NEW YORK | VIENNA (IDN) – Nearly three months after the death of Yukiya Amano of Japan, Rafael Mariano Grossi of Argentina has been elected as the sixth Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). His election by the majority of the Agency’s board on October 29 nearly coincides with the election of the Centre-left opposition candidate Alberto Fernández as president of Argentina. [2019-10-27]

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Growing Anxiety About the Crucial 2020 NPT Review Conference

By Santo D. Banerjee

Photo: Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. UN Photo/Milton Grant.

NEW YORK (IDN) – The survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Mayors of the two Japanese cities whose inhabitants have experienced first-hand the mind boggling cruelty of nuclear weapons, representatives of other civil society organizations as well as the United Nations are increasingly concerned about the fate of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. [2019-10-27 | 20] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN | SPANISH | SWEDISH

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By Santo D. Banerjee

Photo: Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon. The dragon is created from fragments of Soviet SS-20 and United States Pershing nuclear missiles. UN Photo/Milton Grant.

NEW YORK (IDN) – The survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Mayors of the two Japanese cities whose inhabitants have experienced first-hand the mind boggling cruelty of nuclear weapons, representatives of other civil society organizations as well as the United Nations are increasingly concerned about the fate of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. [2019-10-27 | 20] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN | SPANISH | SWEDISH

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New Study Warns of Devastating Global Consequences of an India-Pakistan Nuclear War

「印パ間の核戦争が世界的大惨事を引きおこす」と新研究が警告

【ボルダー（コロラド）IDN＝ダニエル・ストレイン】

インド・パキスタン間の核戦争は、第二次世界大戦６年間の死者を上回る５０００万～１億２５００万人の死者を１週間弱の間にもたらす可能性があるとの新たな研究結果が発表された。

コロラド大学ボルダー校とラトガーズ大学の研究者らが行った新たな研究は、（印パ両国間の）紛争を想定し、それが世界全体にどういった波及効果を及ぼすかを考察している。今日、インドとパキスタンはそれぞれ約１５０発の核兵器を保有しており、２０２５年までには２００発以上に増加するものと見られている。

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IAEA LEU Bank in Kazakhstan Becomes Operational

By Reinhardt Jacobsen

Image source: NTI

VIENNA (IDN) – The new low enriched uranium (LEU) Bank is operational now, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is operational now. The LEU Bank will provide countries investing in nuclear power an assured supply of fuel to use for peaceful purposes without incurring the significant costs of building their own enrichment facilities and without adding to global proliferation risks  [2019-10-23]

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Nuclear Abolition Exhibition Boosts Japan-Kazakh Relations

核兵器廃絶展を通じて絆を深める日本とカザフスタン

【ヌルスルタン（カザフスタン）IDN＝浅霧勝浩】

２０１９年は、ソビエト連邦の主要核実験場であったセミパラチンスクでの核実験に終止符が打たれてから３０周年、また、中央アジア非核兵器地帯条約（セメイ条約）の発効より１０周年にあたる。さらに、カザフスタンが核実験に反対する国際デー（８月２９日）に核兵器禁止条約に批准し、２６カ国目の批准国となった年でもある。

カザフスタンは世界から核兵器を廃絶すべく熱心に取り組んできた国として知られている。同国では１９４９年から４０年にわたり、４５６回の核実験が行われ、１５０万人以上が健康被害を受けてきたとされている。

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President Erdogan Muses Over Turkey Owning Nuclear Weapons

By Shannon Bugos, Arms Control TODAY *

Photo: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 74th session on 24 September 2019 at the United Nations in New York. UN Photo/Cia Pak

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – Complaining that nuclear-armed nations retain an unacceptable monopoly on nuclear weapons, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a recent Turkish holiday to seemingly suggest that his nation acquire its own nuclear arsenal. [2019-10-22]

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Nuclear Abolition Exhibition Boosts Japan-Kazakh Relations – Nrwegian

Utstilling om avskaffelse av atomvåpen gjør forholdet mellom Japan og Kasakhstan sterkere

Av Katsuhiro Asagiri

Foto: Seremoni med båndkutting åpner utstillingen «Everything You Treasure …» (fra venstre mot høyre): Sapar Akhmetov, medlem av Mazhilis (underhuset) i parlamentet i Kazakhstan, Amerkhan Rakhimzhanov, direktør for Biblioteket for den første presidenten i Republikken Kasakhstan – Elbassy, Kuanysh Sultanov, styreleder for menneskerettighetskommisjonen i Kasakhstan under den første presidenten i Kasakhstan, Tatsuhiko Kasai, Japans ambassadør i Kazakhstan, Bizhanova Gulnara Kadyrzhankyzy, medlem av Mazhilis i Kazakhstans parlament, Hirotsugu Terasaki, generaldirektør for fred og globale spørsmål i SGI. Fotokreditt: Katsuhiro Asagiri | IDN-INPS.

NUR-SULTAN, Kasakhstan (IDN) – 2019 markerer 30-årsjubileet for avslutningen av atomprøvesprengning i Semipalatinsk, det viktigste testsområdet for Sovjetunionens atomvåpen, tiårsdagen for ikrafttredelsen av Traktaten om en atomvåpenfri sone i Sentral-Asia og ratifiseringen av Kasakhstan som det 26. landet som skal ratifisere Traktaten om forbud mot atomvåpen.

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Nuclear Abolition Exhibition Boosts Japan-Kazakh Relations

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

Ribbon-cutting ceremony opens ‘Everything You Treasure…’ exhibition (from left to right): Sapar Akhmetov, member of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Amerkhan Rakhimzhanov, Director of the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbassy, Kuanysh Sultanov, Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Kazakhstan under the First President of Kazakhstan, Tatsuhiko Kasai, Ambassador of Japan to Kazakhstan, Bizhanova Gulnara Kadyrzhankyzy, member of the Mazhilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan, Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General of Peace and Global Issues of the SGI. Photo credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri | IDN-INPS.

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) – 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of nuclear weapons testing in Semipalatinsk, the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons, the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, and the ratification by Kazakhstan as the 26th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. [2019-10-17 | 19] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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Nuclear Abolition Exhibition Boosts Japan-Kazakh Relations

By Katsuhiro Asagiri

Ribbon-cutting ceremony opens ‘Everything You Treasure…’ exhibition (from left to right): Sapar Akhmetov, member of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Amerkhan Rakhimzhanov, Director of the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbassy, Kuanysh Sultanov, Chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Kazakhstan under the First President of Kazakhstan, Tatsuhiko Kasai, Ambassador of Japan to Kazakhstan, Bizhanova Gulnara Kadyrzhankyzy, member of the Mazhilis of Parliament of Kazakhstan, Hirotsugu Terasaki, Director General of Peace and Global Issues of the SGI. Photo credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri | IDN-INPS.

NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (IDN) – 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of nuclear weapons testing in Semipalatinsk, the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons, the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, and the ratification by Kazakhstan as the 26th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. [2019-10-17 | 19] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN

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