The Promise of the Treaty on Prevention of Nuclear Weapons

｜視点｜核兵器禁止条約がもたらす希望（ジョセフ・ガーソン平和・軍縮・共通安全保障キャンペーン議長）

【ニューヨークIDN＝ジョセフ・ガーソン】

核兵器禁止（核禁）条約の批准国が５０に達し、９０日後の来年１月２２日に発効する。広島・長崎の被爆者や核兵器廃絶国際キャンペーン（ICAN）の活動家、外交官らが、非核兵器世界の実現に向けた長い闘いに条約がもたらした貢献を喜び合った。

次の、最も重要なステップは、「核の傘」の下にある国ひとつ以上の署名と批准を得ることだ。欧州の北大西洋条約機構（NATO）加盟国か、あるいは、「クアッド」と名付けられた、いわばアジア太平洋地域におけるNATOのようなものに属する日本・オーストラリア・インドのうちの一つがこれに当たる（クアッドの４番目の構成国は米国）。

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A Rallying Call for Nuclear Weapons Elimination By 2045

By J Nastranis

NEW YORK (IDN) – Kazakhstan’s Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in New York has joined the call of civil society for achieving the global elimination of nuclear weapons at least by 2045, arguing that setting the 2045 goal would provide a global rallying call to build a strong movement and that would leave no room for being dismissed as unrealistically early by those who rely on nuclear deterrence. [2020-11-05]

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Almost Unnoticed Nuclear Pandemic Is Spreading in Japan

By Manlio Dinucci

This article was originally published in Italian on Il Manifesto. It is being republished from Global Research. Manlio Dinucci is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

MONTREAL (IDN) – It was not Covid-19, therefore the news went almost unnoticed: Japan will release over a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. The catastrophic incident in Fukushima was triggered by the Tsunami that struck the north-eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, submerging the power plant and causing the core of three nuclear reactors to melt. [2020-11-04]

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US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

By Thalif Deen *

NEW YORK (IDN) – Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, predicted rather ominously: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Einstein, who regretted the marginal role he played in the creation of the atomic bomb, was implicit in his warning of a world going back to a pre-historic stone age — in case it is annihilated by nuclear weapons in a third world war. [2020-11-01]

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