Trump and Senator Cotton Embrace Enhanced Testing & Face Kilotons of Surprises

｜視点｜トランプ大統領とコットン上院議員は核実験に踏み出せば想定外の難題に直面するだろう（ロバート・ケリー元ロスアラモス国立研究所核兵器アナリスト・IAEA査察官）

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米国が近い将来の核実験の実施を検討していると囁かれている。米上院に提出された法案を見れば、それが単なる口先だけの脅しでないことが見て取れる。最近の修正案の文言には「必要ならば核実験の実施に要する時間を短縮することに関連した事業を行う」となっている。こうした脅しは、この種の動きが政治的、技術的に引き起こす困難について、まったく理解を欠いているとしか言いようがない。

核実験が必要と見なされる可能性があるとすれば、備蓄核兵器に解決すべき問題があるか、新システムの開発を迫られている場合だろう。そうでなければ、敵を脅し、核拡散を勧奨し、軍備競争を再び煽る政治的な威嚇になってしまう。

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Japanese and American Catholics Take on the Bomb

By Drew Christiansen

Writer Drew Christiansen, S. J., is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He is the co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020). facebook.com/disarmnowgeorgetown

WASHINGTON, DC. (IDN) — Nagasaki is the historic centre of Japanese Catholicism. In the 16th century, beginning with the missionary visits of one of the first Jesuits, Francis Xavier, Nagasaki was the focal point of their efforts to bring Christianity to Japan. [2020–08-01 | 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN | TURKISH

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Japanese and American Catholics Take on the Bomb

By Drew Christiansen

Writer Drew Christiansen, S. J., is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He is the co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown University Press, 2020). facebook.com/disarmnowgeorgetown

WASHINGTON, DC. (IDN) — Nagasaki is the historic centre of Japanese Catholicism. In the 16th century, beginning with the missionary visits of one of the first Jesuits, Francis Xavier, Nagasaki was the focal point of their efforts to bring Christianity to Japan. [2020–08-01 | 11] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | KOREAN | TURKISH

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It is a project of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as the Flagship Agency in partnership with Soka Gakkai International in Consultative Status with ECOSOC.

It aims to expand the involvement of ordinary citizens worldwide in efforts toward making nuclear weapons obsolete by shedding light on the issues involved from the professional global network of IDN and beyond.

The target audiences for the multilingual articles emerging from the project are: the public reached through the traditional and new media including NGOs, CSOs, UNOs, key leaders, legislators and decision-makers globally and in countries that feel the necessity to review the very concept of non-proliferation as advocated by the nuclear-weapon states.

The significance of the Project is underscored by the fact that:

In 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was adopted by the UN General Assembly and opened for signature at the UN, marking a turning point in the global history of efforts to achieve peace and disarmament. Attention is now focused on pushing for an early entry into force and universalization of the Treaty.

Nuclear weapon states have been fiercely opposing the Treaty arguing that it ignores the reality of vital security considerations, and indicating that hey would not engage with the Ban Treaty.

The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review announced in February against the backdrop of the Korean Peninsular crisis, laden with a potential nuclear confrontation, will have a direct impact on discussions on Nuclear Ban Treaty, drawing attention to policy trends in concerned countries toward peace and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who has warned that “Global anxieties about nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War” and also announced intention “to explore opportunities to generate a new direction and impetus for the global disarmament agenda“.

Complete elimination of nuclear weapons is increasingly becoming a global collaborative effort calling for relentless commitment and robust solidarity between States, International Organizations and Civil Society. In order to secure a foothold for a world free from nuclear weapons, it is necessary to expand the involvement of citizens worldwide. This is precisely what this project aims at.