Young Disarmament and Arms Control Experts Make Their Voices Heard

By Collin McDowell

NEW YORK (UNODA) — In the months before States across the world convene for a conference to advance the elimination and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, a number of next-generation experts delivered practical and actionable proposals to achieve a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons. [2021-05-30]

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NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China – Russian

НАТО планирует сосредоточить внимание на России и Китае

Роберт Джонсон

БРЮССЕЛЬ (IDN). «Сейчас мы переживаем смерть мозга НАТО», — заявил президент Франции Эммануэль Макрон в откровенном интервью журналу The Economist в ноябре 2019 года. По его словам, Европа стоит «на краю пропасти», и ей необходимо начать думать о себе в стратегическом плане как о геополитической державе, в противном случае мы «больше не будем вершить свою судьбу».

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NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China

北大西洋条約機構、対ロ・対中対策にシフトへ

【ブリュッセルIDN＝ロバート・ジョンソン】

「私たちが現在経験しつつあるものは、北大西洋条約機構（NATO）の脳死だ。」と、２０１９年９月の『エコノミスト』誌のインタビューで明け透けに語ったのは、フランスのエマニュエル・マクロン大統領である。欧州は「崖っぷちに立っている」と語るマクロン大統領は、地政学的な勢力として自ら戦略的にものを考え始める必要性を説いた。でなければ、「自らの運命をもはや支配できなくなる」からだ。

これはドナルド・トランプが米国の大統領に就いてから２年後のことである。この不穏な情勢を背景にNATOのイェンス・ストルテンベルク事務総長は、「NATO再検討グループ」を結成した。座長にはドイツのトーマス・デメジエール元国防省と米国のウェス・ミッチェル元国務省高官が就任した。これはまた、NATOが直面する脅威とそれへの対処能力を概観した「戦略的概念」が２０１０年以来改定されていないことを念頭に置いたものだった。

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Only ‘No First Use’ Policy Can Defuse Tension

Viewpoint by Ramesh Thakur*

The article was first published in International Politics and Society Journal. on May 20, 2021, by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s Brussels office.

CANBERRA (IDN | IPS-Joural.EU) — A ‘no first use’ (NFU) policy is an official commitment by a nuclear-armed state that it will not be the first to use nuclear weapons against any adversary under any contingency. By making such a declaration, the state confirms its use of nuclear weapons will be restricted solely to retaliation and only against a nuclear attack. Consequently, these weapons will never be used for preventive, pre-emptive or coercive (nuclear blackmail) purposes. [2021-05-23]

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NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China – Chinese

北约计划把重点放在俄罗斯和中国

作者：罗伯特·约翰逊(Robert Johnson)

布鲁塞尔(IDN)——法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙(Emmanuel Macron)在2019年11月接受《经济学人》采访时直言不讳地表示：“我们目前正在经历北约的脑死亡。”他说，欧洲站在“悬崖边上”，身处险境，所以欧洲必需把自己作为一个地缘政治力量进行战略思考；否则，我们将“不再掌握自己的命运”。

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Stop Muddying The Waters On The Appointment Of The CTBTO Executive Secretary

Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf*

“And so … ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country”, President John Kennedy, 20 January 1961.

VIENNA (IDN) — For the better part of a year, diplomats from more than 180 countries have been feuding over the appointment of the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) located in Vienna, alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). [2021-05-16]

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The Nuclear Threat in the New Information Age

Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball

The writer is the executive director of Arms Control Association and publisher of Arms Control Today since 2001. The following is the text of Mr Kimball’s Foreword to 2021 Joint Media Project Report of the Non-Profit International Press Syndicate Group with IDN as flagship agency in partnership with Soka Gakkai International in consultative status with ECOSOC.

WASHINGTON, DC (IDN) — An informed and mobilized public is essential to human survival in the nuclear age—and effective and independent journalism is essential to revealing the hard truths, the consequences, and the choices that nuclear weapons pose for all of us. [2021-05-12]  JAPANESE 

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NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China

By Robert Johnson

BRUSSELS (IDN) — “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO,” French President Emmanuel Macron declared in a blunt interview with The Economist in November 2019. Europe stands on “the edge of a precipice”, he said, and needs to start thinking of itself strategically as a geopolitical power; otherwise, we will “no longer be in control of our destiny.” [2021-05-12 | 03] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF |  RUSSIAN

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NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China

By Robert Johnson

BRUSSELS (IDN) — “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO,” French President Emmanuel Macron declared in a blunt interview with The Economist in November 2019. Europe stands on “the edge of a precipice”, he said, and needs to start thinking of itself strategically as a geopolitical power; otherwise, we will “no longer be in control of our destiny.” [2021-05-12 | 03] CHINESE | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF |  RUSSIAN

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Biden Should Return Quickly to the Obama-led Iran Nuclear Deal

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It was the Americans who helped the long-ago-deposed Shah of Iran start Iran’s nuclear power research. He wanted a bomb. The Americans seemed insouciant about where this might lead.

After the revolution, the research was bequeathed from the wrong pair of hands to another wrong pair of hands—the revolutionaries who overthrew the Shah in 1979. [2021-05-11]

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