Plea for Diverting Funds from Nuclear Weapons to Combating COVID-19

｜米国｜「核兵器予算をコロナ対策へ」と呼びかけ

【ジュネーブIDN＝ジャムシェッド・バルーア】

核兵器禁止（核禁）条約の履行を推進する非政府組織の連合体でノーベル賞を受賞した「核兵器廃絶国際キャンペーン」（ICAN）が、核兵器からの資金引揚げを訴えている。「核禁条約の発効は、『財布（＝資金源）』という核兵器製造者の最も痛いところを突く重要な機会を提供しています。」と、ICAN活動家は語った。

核爆発のリスクが冷戦後で最も高まっている中、銀行や年金基金、投資企業が２０１７年から１９年の間に依然として７４８０億ドルを投資し、世界全体で前例のないような苦しみを人類にもたらしかねない兵器に私たちの貯金をつぎ込んでいる、とICANは主張している。

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Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs

Viewpoint by Dr Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan

The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO, Former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

ULAANBAATAR (IDN) — Post-cold war peace dividend has not realized. Though the number of nuclear weapons of the two largest nuclear weapon holders—Russia and the United States—was reduced but then the reduction process came to a complete halt. The number of states possessing nuclear weapons has almost doubled against the background of further modernization of such weapons, lowering the threshold of their possible use and the increase in nuclear weapon spending. The non-proliferation regime is gradually weakening. [2021-04-30 | 02] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN | SPANISH 

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Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs

Viewpoint by Dr Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan

The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO, Former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

ULAANBAATAR (IDN) — Post-cold war peace dividend has not realized. Though the number of nuclear weapons of the two largest nuclear weapon holders—Russia and the United States—was reduced but then the reduction process came to a complete halt. The number of states possessing nuclear weapons has almost doubled against the background of further modernization of such weapons, lowering the threshold of their possible use and the increase in nuclear weapon spending. The non-proliferation regime is gradually weakening. [2021-04-30 | 02] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | RUSSIAN | SPANISH 

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Sleepwalking into Nuclear War?

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Last week on Tuesday (April 20), US Strategic Command, the part of the military responsible for nuclear weaponry and its use, posted an official Tweet that read, “We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option”. [2021-04-27]

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Time to Think Beyond Current NWFZs – RUSSIAN

Время выйти за рамки существующих на сегодняшний день ЗСЯО

Точка зрения д-ра Жаргалсайхана Энхсайхана

Автор статьи — председатель общественной организации Blue Banner, бывший постоянный представитель Монголии при Организации Объединенных Наций.

УЛАН-БАТОР (IDN) — Мирные дивиденды, связанные с окончанием «холодной войны», так и не были реализованы. Несмотря на то, что количество ядерных боеприпасов у двух крупнейших держателей ядерного оружия — России и США — было сокращено, впоследствии процесс сокращения полностью прекратился. Количество государств, обладающих ядерным оружием, увеличилось почти вдвое на фоне дальнейшей модернизации такого оружия, снижения порога его возможного применения и увеличения связанных с ним расходов. Режим нераспространения постепенно ослабевает.

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Optimism Over Progress in Vienna Talks on Iran Nuclear Deal

By Kelsey Davenport, Julia Masterson and Sang-Min Kim

While Kelsey Davenport is Director for Nonproliferation Policy and Julia Masterson, Research Associate at the Arms Control Association, Sang-Min Kim is Scoville Fellow.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) — The United States, Iran, and the other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal expressed varying degrees of optimism over the progress made during recent talks in Vienna on the necessary steps to restore full implementation of the accord. [2021-04-22]

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Plädoyer für die Umwidmung von Mitteln von Atomwaffen zur Bekämpfung von COVID-19

Von Jamshed Baruah

GENF (IDN) — Die mit dem Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnete ‘International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)’, ein Zusammenschluss von Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich für die Einhaltung und Umsetzung des Atomwaffenverbotsvertrags der Vereinten Nationen einsetzen, plädiert für den Verzicht auf Atomwaffen. “Das bevorstehende Inkrafttreten des UN-Vertrags über das Verbot von Atomwaffen (TPNW) bietet die einmalige Gelegenheit, die Atomwaffenproduzenten dort zu treffen, wo es weh tut — in ihrem Portemonnaie”, heißt es in einer ICAN-Kampagne.

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Modernization, New Weapons and The Risks to International Security

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte

The writer is Ambassador, former High Representative of the United Nations for Disarmament Affairs and current President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

NEW YORK (IDN) — “Reliance on nuclear weapons for [deterrence] is becoming
increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”
    George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn
Wall Street Journal op-ed, January 4, 2007

“It is becoming clearer that nuclear weapons are no longer
a means of achieving security; in fact, with every passing
year they make our security more precarious.”
    Gorbachev, Mikhail, The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2007. [2021-04-16]

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Plea for Diverting Funds from Nuclear Weapons to Combating COVID-19 – HINDI

COVID -19 का मुकाबला करने के लिए परमाणु हथियार कोष से धन निकालने के लिए दलील

जमशेद बरुआ द्वारा

जेनेवा (IDN) — परमाणु हथियारों को खत्म करने के लिए नोबेल पुरस्कार विजेता अंतर्राष्ट्रीय अभियान (ICAN), परमाणु हथियारों के निषेध पर संयुक्त राष्ट्र संधि के अनुपालन और कार्यान्वयन को बढ़ावा देने वाले गैर-सरकारी संगठनों के गठबंधन ने परमाणु हथियारों के निपटान के पक्ष में विनती कर रहा है। परमाणु हथियारों के निषेध पर संयुक्त राष्ट्र संधि की अवश्‍यंभावी प्रविष्टि (TPNW) परमाणु हथियार निर्माताओं को लक्षित करने के लिए एक अद्वितीय अवसर प्रदान करती है जहाँ यह उनकी जेब को चोट पहुँचाता है,” एक ICAN अभियान कहता है।

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Plea for Diverting Funds from Nuclear Weapons to Combating COVID-19

By Jamshed Baruah

GENEVA (IDN) — The Nobel laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a coalition of non-governmental organizations promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty, has been pleading for divestment in nuclear weapons. “The imminent entry-into-force of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) allows for a unique opportunity to hit the nuclear weapons producers where it hurts—their wallets,” an ICAN campaign says. [2021-04-14|01] GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF |

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